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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2017

Leading Blog

The Startup Way : How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth by Eric Ries. The Anticipatory Organization : Turn Disruption and Change into Opportunity and Advantage by Daniel Burrus. Finding My Virginity by Richard Branson. For bulk orders call 1-800-423-8273.

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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. They often kill any long-term strategic initiatives.

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A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs

Leading Blog

What follows are some of the thoughts that resonated with me: Eric Ries: “The mistake isn’t releasing something bad. Rich Barton: “It’s much more powerful long-term to make up a new word than it is to use a literal word. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. Rich Barton: “Ideas are cheap. Execution is dear.

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The Danger of Celebritizing Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Eric Ries has recently become fond of saying, "Entrepreneurship is not cool, it's not sexy and it's totally uncomfortable. But let's not swing the pendulum too far in the other direction and spread the delusion that starting a company is something anyone can do to get rich and famous quickly.

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The Danger of Celebritizing Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

Eric Ries has recently become fond of saying, "Entrepreneurship is not cool, it's not sexy and it's totally uncomfortable. But let's not swing the pendulum too far in the other direction and spread the delusion that starting a company is something anyone can do to get rich and famous quickly.

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How Big Companies Should Innovate

Harvard Business Review

Incentivize for long-term viability. Over the past few years, Eric Ries ' lean start-up movement has gained meaningful traction in the entrepreneurial community. But one thing is certain: faced at the onset with internal pressure to drive cost out of production, it was far less likely that Gerber could truly innovate.

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Big Bets vs. Little Bets and the future of HP

Harvard Business Review

Barnholt calls it the tyranny of large numbers, explaining that "there's a natural tendency to think in terms of bigger bets as you get to be bigger.". To borrow a phrase from Silicon Valley thought leader and author Eric Ries , they "achieved a failure." in 2010, and HP has been criticized for a decade-long R&D slide.

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