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• Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.

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  Innovation, Bigs, Company

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• Another key role the CEO plays is to focus efforts.

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  Keys, Play, Focus

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• Bring different groups together internally, send them out to visit other companies, or bring in interesting speeches. Show that you love learning by having people on staff whose job it is to explore without any near-term metrics. Publicly shut a project down and talk about what a great job a team did because they learned so much. And so on.

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  Jobs, Team, Interesting

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• I find social media as fun and engaging as the next person, but imagine if all the creative talent that was pouring into finding increasingly clever ways for us to broadcast daily banality (and then serve ads based on what is learned) instead focused on some of the UN Millennium goals? The world would be a better place.

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  Clever, Fun, Media

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• In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer. The decision-making systems here are meant to deal with the reality that decisions about innovative ideas will rely on patterns and intuitions. The best venture capital organizations deal with this challenge by staging investment, actively participating in startups they fund, tying decisions to learning as opposed to artificial dates on the calendar, and assembling a diverse team of decision-makers.

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  Team, Reality, Organization

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• In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer.

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  Asking, Answers, Faces

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• Why do people do crossword puzzles? There's no reward for completing one, but some people just like the challenge.

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  People, Challenges, Rewards

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• First you document your idea. You should be comprehensive, but that doesn't mean you have to produce a doctoral thesis length plan. Rather you want to make sure you have touched all the different things that have to happen to succeed. Then, you evaluate your approach. The goal here isn't to figure out if your idea is good or bad, but rather to begin to figure out what are some of its weakest elements.

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  Mean, Ideas, Goal

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• Document, evaluate, focus, test.

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  Focus, Tests, Documents

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• I'm suggesting that principles meant to deal with uncertainty that occurs naturally can be useful to manage the uncertainty that characterizes any new idea.

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  Ideas, Principles, Deals

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• It's very easy to skip steps when documenting an idea.

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  Ideas, Steps, Easy

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• We fool ourselves into thinking that the spreadsheets that capture our financial projections are something different than what they are.

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  Thinking, Different, Fool

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• Think about how you will start and where you will go. Get the head with logic and the heart with visuals or stories. And think about your core customer and all the other stakeholders as well.

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  Heart, Thinking, Stories

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• Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern.

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  Successful, Patterns, Strategy

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• Checklists are really helpful ways to remind people around how to manage complicated tasks.

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  People, Tasks, Way

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• The reality is sometimes markets don't exist for very good reasons. It might be that there isn't a deep customer need. Or the economic model is just hard to pull off. Or maybe there is a regulatory barrier.

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  Reality, Economic Models, Needs

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• It takes a great deal of humility to recognize you have made a wrong turn on the road to successful innovation, but better to stop and try a radically different approach then to continue down the wrong route for too long.

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  Humility, Successful, Long

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• Most companies are built to execute today's business model, not discover tomorrow's.

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  Today, Tomorrow, Company

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• Data about an innovative idea is rarely crystal clear.

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  Data, Ideas, Crystals

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• Good innovators are careful observers, network extensively, run experiments, ask lots of questions, and find ways to bring diverse ideas together. Overarching all of this is an intrinsic interest in working through puzzles.

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  Running, Ideas, Together

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• Seeking chaos is at least one way to develop the skills and mindsets to tackle ambiguity.

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  Skills, Way, Chaos

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