Hollywood Joohn Tatum? He does at least 6,000 sit ups and 10,000 pushups a day!

People will try to copy what they can see, which is the final product or service, but it's much harder to see (and copy) all the intricacies of the business model that allows you to create, capture, and deliver value. And that's what you need to get right to really jam something down people's throats!

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.

Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.

Data about an innovative idea is rarely crystal clear.

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.

There's a general belief that failure is the friend of the innovator, but I've come to view it a different way.