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Do you want to know the secret of guaranteed instant overnight innovation, success? Of course, you do, don't we all? Well, the good news is you'll find it in this book. It's on page 258 in the last paragraph. To be precise. Here's the link for those of you on Kindle final thoughts. A quick disclaimer though, only if you read the entire book, will it really make sense? I understand you're impatient and probably want to check that out first and that's fine. I'll be waiting for you here. OK. Now that you've been there, you know the secret, which is kind of important. It's actually the key to this book. If you're ready to learn and work hard, this book will help you learn how to grow those little ideas into big ideas at work at home and any other place you think is important now would be a good time to clarify an important point. This book will not provide instant success. It will offer a proven innovation method that helps build ideas up to six times faster while reducing failure risks by at least 50% there are more than 200,000 books on innovation and startups. More than 25,000 books on how to scale up your company and nearly 70,000 books about building your own business. What on earth can make it worth my while writing another book or worth your time to read it. The answer is simple. There are ways to innovate better and you have a right to know personally, I have built eight successful businesses in six countries and my coauthors have built dozens more. My success rate is eight hits from 11 tries if you're interested in the three losers. One was a big failure and two just never took off. A little over 10 years ago, I started teaching innovation and entrepreneurship. I have taught at lending business schools, K U Leuven Solve Ed heck led some of the world's largest and most successful accelerator companies, the founder Institute and the European Innovation Academy and coached around 200 companies. In my work. I have seen two types of innovators. One, the big idea hunters, two, the idea builders. It is easy to understand why the idea builders are better at reducing risk. What is perhaps more exciting and surprising is understanding that idea builders also move faster and usually build more Suif significant areas than the big idea hunters. My book explains how to become a successful idea builder. It is a book I wish I'd had when I wanted to start my first business as it would have helped me understand how careful disciplined and consistent efforts to be big bangs almost every time.