You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.

Document, evaluate, focus, test.

I've come to the conclusion that the core characteristic that separates companies that get innovation from those that don't is a simple word: curiosity.

In the early stages of innovation, your goal is to learn as much as you can as quickly as you can.

Companies get into grooves and they keep sharpening what they are doing, when in fact what they really need to do sometimes is to stop and do something completely differently.

Leaders today face challenges for which they are utterly unprepared.

If you are trying to improve the performance of existing operations in known markets, it is an analytical problem where it's just a question of aligning your execution engine in the right way. If it is about creating something new and different, you can't derive the right answer analytically.