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Lean startup, lean company

Lead on Purpose

“I explained the theory of the Lean Startup, repeating my definition: an organization designed to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty.” This definition comes from Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses.

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7 Steps to Getting Your Startup Story Right

Rajesh Setty

Your job is to get into their shoes and experience a day in their life without and with your product or service. Some entrepreneurs quip back citing examples from Alexander Graham Bell to Steve Jobs who could not or did not do market research respectively but went ahead with amazing innovations. How do you do this? All the best!

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How to Innovate with an Executive Sponsor

Harvard Business Review

Meaningful innovation requires sponsorship. We seed our organizations with resources — people, capital, and equipment — and those resources have productive value in certain areas. At its core, Penrose's idea is the reason innovation requires sponsorship. It always has.

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The Rise of UX Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. The CEO as Lead Product Designer. They use their products on a daily basis.

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Become a Company That Questions Everything

Harvard Business Review

For companies seeking to innovate, adapt to change, and maintain an edge in fast-moving, competitive markets, a questioning culture can help ensure that creativity and adaptive thinking flows throughout the organization. “One And is it possible to encourage the “right kind” of questions — the ones most likely to lead to productive results?

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If You Want to Lead, Read These 10 Books

Harvard Business Review

What actually concerns me — and I hope you as well — is that in his canon of leadership books there are no women's voices, at least not in the top 11 that he relies on and that inspire him to greatness. Perhaps this explains why so few of our "Lists on Leadership" include the voices of women. So does leadership.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.