The Horizons Tracker

MAY 31, 2021

It’s also noticeable that in Google’s famous Project Oxygen a few years ago, they found that of the eight skills associated with Google employees’ jobs, STEM skills were bottom of the pile in terms of importance. Far more important was the kind of soft skills that humans, and especially women, excel in.

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Ries Software Emotional Intelligence Ethics 116

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. We have to be willing to roll up our sleeves and do the work. Eric Ries Click To Tweet.

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. The business I fronted that went belly-up: shouldn't I have better read the situation? Learning is the essential unit of progress for start-ups," writes Ries.

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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. The business I fronted that went belly-up: shouldn't I have better read the situation? Learning is the essential unit of progress for start-ups," writes Ries.

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Ries Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 17

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.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

To illustrate, consider the most straightforward example: Wall Street megabanks were propped up and lavishly resurrected, and your grandkids will likely still be paying the price — because they were too big to fail. Silicon Valley's latest buzzword is the " pivot " — geek-ese for "this isn't working: let's change it up."

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Hypercompetition Ries Definition Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

To borrow a phrase from Silicon Valley thought leader and author Eric Ries , they "achieved a failure." Barnholt summed up the experience by saying: "That's how I learned the importance of making a lot of little bets.". Within five months, HP was selling 1,000 calculators a day and could barely keep up with the demand.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11