article thumbnail

5 Core Values For The Workplace

Tim Milburn

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive. ” The minimum stakes can be staggering, and the entry costs for other kinds of products are, in fact, much higher. ” ACCOUNTABILITY.

Waterman 140
article thumbnail

Guest Post: Dilenschneider on Workplace Core Values

Eric Jacobson

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive. The minimum stakes can be staggering, and the entry costs for other kinds of products are, in fact, much higher.

article thumbnail

How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together. For this year, we’re not going to worry about the product and program costs in calculating the payback. It took a lot of pressure off the team so they could focus on execution and not on cost.”

Ries 8