Not only do innovators have to deal with all of the fundamental challenges of innovation, they have to do so in an environment that often is implicitly hostile towards innovation.

The curious company studies the anomalies or the unexpected findings. The company that isn't curious ignores them or punishes people who don't do exactly what they set out to do.

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Avoiding along some dimensions is easy. Create organization space and bring in some new talent so the innate cultural resistance is less material. Unfortunately, it's rarely that easy.

People who live in more than two countries are more successful innovators.

The most important thing here is to largely ignore what customers say, and instead watch what they do or track where they spend money.

I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.