Scott Anthony has a great post over at HBR called How to Kill Inno­va­tion: Keep Ask­ing Ques­tions In it, he says: It’s just hard to have robust answers about an unknown future state. Too fre­quently, tak­ing the time to answer “What about…” ques­tions doesn’t bring you any closer to achiev­ing the goal of cre­at­ing boom­ing growth busi­nesses. I like his essay because it is a nice way to frame the impor­tance of Prin­ci­ple 10: Baby steps often lead to big leaps .? By ask­ing too many ques­tions, Scott says, firms avoid tak­ing the kinds of small actions which would actu­ally yield answers.? As I noted in my writeup of Prin­ci­ple 10: As obvi­ous as it may seem, start­ing some­thing is essen­tial to its com­ple­tion.? But often times peo­ple can’t accept the chal­lenge in front of them, and so they find myr­iad ways to avoid doing some­thing:? bud­get reviews, scop­ing meet­ings, tak­ing sick time, eat­ing piz­zas, buff­ing that fea­ture on your last project, surf­ing Facebook…