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

Terry Starbucker

Good to Great – by Jim Collins. The Lean Startup – by Eric Ries. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team – by Patrick Lencioni. Questions of Character – by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. Radical Leap – by Steve Farber. Leadership'

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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

The innovation research identifies the tyranny of large numbers as a common (and vexing) problem for leaders as companies grow, well documented by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovators Solution , Jim Collins in How the Mighty Fall , and by Scott Anthony on this blog. Their ideas made sense.

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