RapidStart Leadership

MAY 9, 2017

It was in Mark Kurlansky’s fascinating book Salt: A World History that I came across Samuel Platt’s story. Focused effort is what brings us closer to our goals, not hoping and wishing. Keep your eyes open. Eric Ries Click To Tweet. Persistence – The Takeaway. Stick with it. Ignore the haters.

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Ries Bottom-up Objective Incentives 120

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

On a recent book tour supporting the French translation of my book, I met dozens of professionals who bemoaned what they viewed as their country’s particularly acute “one strike and you’re out” attitude toward failure. But stretch goals are just that: things outside your wheelhouse that may work out, or not.

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Ries Open-book Competitive Advantage Education 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

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. Comstock is out.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Its members need the freedom to decide how to achieve goals while also having the discipline to work in alignment with the organization’s strategy. Those who perceive are more comfort­able with openness and ambiguity. Organizational Development Book. Judging or perceiving. Excerpted from. Harvard Business Review.

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Diversity Ries Creativity Groupthink 8