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Wiki Brands - CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Monday, December 27, 2010 Wiki Brands According the the NY Time is a good season to forgive. Al Ries is one of my brand heros. Beautiful snow in NY today. Over a foot. Storm is mostly done now. Just blowing and digging out. The RuMe bags I gave for Christmas went over well. Good blog entry on them.

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Big Bets vs. Little Bets and the future of HP

Harvard Business Review

To borrow a phrase from Silicon Valley thought leader and author Eric Ries , they "achieved a failure." in 2010, and HP has been criticized for a decade-long R&D slide. And they were all big," Barnholt recalls, "But they all failed! The reason they all failed and the reason they were big is that someone was already there," he says.

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In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. The language has been widely adopted, and that includes some folks who haven''t yet had the chance to read Ries'' work or digest the ideas behind it.