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From Drucker To The Lean Startup: The (Literary) Evolution of Leadership Philosophy

Terry Starbucker

The goal of the series is to bring you valuable and actionable insights that can help you on your personal leadership journey, from my more human perspective (What’s being more human all about? Good to Great – by Jim Collins. The Lean Startup – by Eric Ries. Questions of Character – by Joseph L.

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The Lean Startup: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Crown Business (2011) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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Big Bets vs. Little Bets and the future of HP

Harvard Business Review

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.

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