Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 17, 2023

As we talked, I posed a leadership and culture question that has confounded me for decades. Feet Gloves, Vulnerability, and Being Wrong One more example: in the last two years I’ve fallen in love with trail running. A couple of weeks ago, I found myself in front of a pair of toe socks at REI. In fact, they gave me the creeps.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 22, 2012

You can learn from Recreational Equipment Incorporated , better known as REI -- an outdoor gear and apparel co-op. As described in Amy Lyman's new book, The Trustworthy Leader , REI concisely articulates its core values in this series of statements: Authenticity -- We are true to the outdoors. So what makes it different at REI?

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Rajesh Setty

JULY 16, 2013

Although Steve Blank and Eric Reis have made customer development and lean startup methodology household names in the startup ecosystem, there is still a lot of reluctance from entrepreneurs to actively start talking to target customers early in the Lifecycle of a company. Take for example the investor group that you are courting.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

P&G, for example, is known as a pioneer in the observation category. IBM is a well-known example of an organization that harnesses inspiration with innovation jams that crowdsource the best ideas from the wisdom of crowds. It uses focus groups and advanced ethnographic techniques to tune in to the voice of the customer.

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Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

Holacracy Examples. Cooperative Examples. Employee-owned Examples. Originally envisioned in 1945 by Kees Boeke, a Dutch educator and pacifist, as a way to adapt Quaker egalitarian principles to secular organizations, sociocracy allows us to give and receive effective leadership while remaining peers. Sociocracy Examples.

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