Scott D. Anthony

Whether it's a village or a platoon that it takes to actually do this, make sure you format.

Then the second thing, one of the very persistent findings in the innovation literature is that magic happens at intersections, where you get different mindsets and backgrounds colliding.

The more that team is replete with intersections, people who will look at the world in different ways, think in different ways, have different skills, et cetera, the stronger that team is going to be.

And the story to reinforce this is the printing press story.

This one taught me a lot.

The printing press, I had historically told as a story about the lone genius.

You have Johannes Gutenberg.

He's the one guy who does this.

Of course, you go and study history.

You realize that's not true at all.

1437.

He forms a partnership.

The partnership isn't to go and create the printing press.

It's to create trinkets with silver foil or mirror behind them that would capture the essence of the Holy Spirit during a planned pilgrimage in 1439.

The bubonic plague broke out.

The pilgrimage was called off.

So that little team had to go and in modern terms, pivot.

They added some new members.

They found this guy, Conrad Sospach, that had this really interesting press that was originally for wine but could be used for other purposes.

They got funding from Johann Fust.