Guest Scott Anthony, Dartmouth '96, was never really thinking about a life in journalism. But he found the time spent working on America’s oldest college newspaper, The Dartmouth, enjoyable because of his ability to pose questions and do research and tell a story. Years later, those skills would come back together in the work he does as an author on business innovation topics.

Though he credits growing up in a family that valued tinkering, trying things, and finding new connections as one inspiration, it was a chance encounter in business school with Clayton Christensen, father of disruptive innovation, that set him on path to consulting, researching, and writing on innovation. Scott ended up being a research assistant for Clay, co-writing a book with him, and joining his start-up consulting firm. Nearly twenty years later, working in the firm’s Singapore office, he’s learned—and written—volumes on what it really means to be innovative and what it takes to be innovative in personal and professional realms.

In this episode, find out from Scott how innovation in business and innovation in life often feel very similar…on ROADS TAKEN...with Leslie Jennings Rowley.

About This Episode's Guest

Scott Anthony is an author and senior partner at growth strategy consulting firm Innosight. He has written extensively about a number of innovation topics including disruptive innovation and business transformation, with such titles as his first work with Clay Christensen Seeing What’s Next and his recent 2020 release, Eat Sleep Innovate. His latest research is on "both/and" behaviors (as opposed to "either/or" strategies) that predict stellar leadership. Find Scott at innosight.com.

Mentioned in this episode is the book The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen.

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Executive Producer/Host: Leslie Jennings Rowley

Music: Brian Burrows

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Executive Producer/Host: Leslie Jennings Rowley

Music: Brian Burrows

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The Innovator's Opportunity: Scott Anthony using innovation to see the future

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