The CEO should ask what he or she can do to raise the organization's curiosity quotient. One way to do this is to seek to learn more about current or prospective customers, not to figure out which segmentation model to slot them into, but to really understand them as human beings. Another is to live at the intersections where innovation magic occurs.

Small teams move faster than big teams.

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

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.

I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.

Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.

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