Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.

So many people tell me that they aren't creative or they aren't innovative, and it's just not true.

Most startup companies have two people, and they figure out creative ways to swarm problems. They move faster and have more impact.

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.

It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to do things that might not be fully rational (invest in the company, join something that is likely to fail, try a product they've never seen before), and if you can't tell a good story it is just very hard to make that happen.

Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.

Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.