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Wiki Brands - CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

Sometime the Time Management Guy in me questions if it is a good use of time. Al Ries is one of my brand heros. Marketing cannot fix a bad product. Working first on product and service excellence should be the primary goal of any company. It inspires me to remain active in Social Media. I love branding.

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White Gold: A Story of Persistence

RapidStart Leadership

After weeks of laborious effort, he had managed to drill through 686 feet of solid limestone with no luck. Today the Goderich mine is the largest salt mine in Canada and is one of the most productive salt works in the modern world. Focused effort is what brings us closer to our goals, not hoping and wishing. Ignore the haters.

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Why Your Social Media Metrics Are a Waste of Time

Harvard Business Review

They're what Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup , calls "vanity metrics.". A better metric is how many products you sell as a result of tweeting a link to your purchase path. That's what Ries calls an "engine of growth.". Seek out what Ries refers to as "actionable metrics."

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Stop Believing That You Have to Be Perfect

Harvard Business Review

In fact, it’s likely that you’ve already failed, or will soon (perhaps you launched a product that didn’t sell, were passed over for a promotion, flubbed a presentation, or any of a million other varieties). The goal, says Eric Ries of The Lean Startup fame, is to create a minimum viable product that you’ll fully expect to iterate over time.

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Put Failure in Its Place

Harvard Business Review

Or you launched a new product and not only does it fail to sell, customers actually hate it. When you start a company, launch a new product, or take on a job, there is the fantasy of a simple linear world: you will work hard and your dream will happen. Learning is the essential unit of progress for start-ups," writes Ries.

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Put Failure in Its Place

Harvard Business Review

Or you launched a new product and not only does it fail to sell, customers actually hate it. When you start a company, launch a new product, or take on a job, there is the fantasy of a simple linear world: you will work hard and your dream will happen. Learning is the essential unit of progress for start-ups," writes Ries.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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