RapidStart Leadership

MAY 9, 2017

Before long, oil wells were popping up all over the place. Platt was ready to give up. You never know what might turn up with just a little bit more effort – one more phone call, one more redesign, or just a few more feet of drilling. Focused effort is what brings us closer to our goals, not hoping and wishing.

Ries 120

Ries Bottom-up Objective Incentives 120

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

You've started a company and it goes belly-up. As we practice innovating we are propelled up a personal learning curve — and we begin to accomplish our dreams. I had envisioned a future in which I would achieve a goal, perhaps be hailed as the conquering hero. Or you get fired. I had been all-in. And then I wasn't.

Ries 22

Ries Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

You've started a company and it goes belly-up. As we practice innovating we are propelled up a personal learning curve — and we begin to accomplish our dreams. I had envisioned a future in which I would achieve a goal, perhaps be hailed as the conquering hero. Or you get fired. I had been all-in. And then I wasn't.

Ries 19

Ries Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

HP had grown so large, to about $30 billion in sales, that Barnholt and other senior managers felt pinched to reach their double-digit growth goals. To borrow a phrase from Silicon Valley thought leader and author Eric Ries , they "achieved a failure." But by the mid-1990s, the challenges mounted. Their ideas made sense.

Ries 11

Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8