Characteristics of Successful Innovators

[jkuria]

http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/10/the-five-characteristics-of-successful-innovators/

[j2kun]

I would also like to see an article about the characteristics of failed innovators. What parts overlap and what parts are different? Of course, data on failed innovators is much harder to come by.

[Pitarou]

I was pleasantly surprised. An article about innovation that's actually ... good!

[peterjancelis]

How can one bypass the signup wall? Going via Google doesn't work.

[read]

It's surprising they're more risk-averse.

[danielharan → read]

This may be in part because most of the examples we hear about in the startup scene are outliers. For most small businesses it's probably much more common to systematically reduce risk.