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

One of the biggest mistakes large companies make is creating innovation teams that mirror all the functions of the core business. Those teams make no progress because they spent forever updating each other on what they are doing versus really crushing the most critical problems they need to address.

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

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

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

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.

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.