Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

I had envisioned a future in which I would achieve a goal, perhaps be hailed as the conquering hero. For example, that speech I bombed: by the time I finished, it looked as if I'd just run 3 miles, I was perspiring so much. For example, did I learn to never speak in public again? Apart from feeling mortified, I was heartbroken.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

I had envisioned a future in which I would achieve a goal, perhaps be hailed as the conquering hero. For example, that speech I bombed: by the time I finished, it looked as if I'd just run 3 miles, I was perspiring so much. For example, did I learn to never speak in public again? Apart from feeling mortified, I was heartbroken.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2014

Google offers a good example with its wide-open (and sometimes chaotic) weekly “TGIF” sessions: all employees are invited to submit questions to the company’s top executives, and the ones voted up by the rest of the company — often the toughest, most controversial questions — are then fielded on the spot by the bosses.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. As I described in a previous post , GE is working with Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author recognized for pioneering the Lean Startup movement.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Their goal was to help entrepreneurs and those inside established companies adopt a new approach, “one better suited to high-potential projects whose prospects are uncertain at the start.” You start by creating a “reverse income statement” for the project (you can see an example in the original article ).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

But the opposite can be true, too: for instance, Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries designed the 2013 Lean Startup Conference with the intention of inclusion. One of my favorite stories about this is a relatively unknown historical example. Today, I want to suggest that dreams are simply goals without an action plan.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. To us, there are few better examples at demonstrating the power of the Lean Startup. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development.

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