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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together. To make FastWorks work, changes have been made in several areas, including supplier relations, finance, and roles and responsibilities: Supplier relations. You can’t do that if you want to be secretive.”.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

In the early 1980s, for example, at least some partners — Bob Waterman, co-author of In Search of Excellence , among them — counseled gradual, quiet expansion, this to maintain the top-flight quality of the consultancy's people and its work. Others decried what they saw as a lowering of hiring standards. "I