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Where is the Wisdom?
Execupundit
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
[Photo by Chris Ried at Unsplash] Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - Eliot
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Build a Brand – Not Just a Career
Women on Business
AUGUST 1, 2012
Guest Post by Laura Ries (learn more about Laura at the end of this article): Talk about “having it all.” ” That was 18 years ago and together we have built the Ries & Ries “marketing” brand, including the publication of five books on the subject.
Quote of the Day
Execupundit
MARCH 3, 2018
Eric RiesMost companies are more likely to fire those who show entrepreneurial initiative than to promote them.
The Most Popular McKinsey Quarterly Articles: Second Quarter (2014)
First Friday Book Synopsis
JULY 20, 2014
Uncategorized Eric Ries Louis V. According to mckinsey.com readers, these were the most popular articles during the Second Quarter of 2014. Here’s a direct link to reading any/all of them. Change leader, change thyself: Anyone who pulls the organization in new directions must look inward as well as outward. More to follow each, 1-10] 2. The seven traits of […].
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Execupundit
MARCH 30, 2018
From The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack TroutBillions of dollars have been wasted on marketing programs that couldn't possibly work, no matter how clever or brilliant. Or how big the budgets.
Fail Bigger Cheaper: A Three Word Manifesto
First Friday Book Synopsis
JULY 29, 2011
Here is an excerpt from another thoughtful and thought-provoking article written by Umair Haque for the Harvard Business Review blog. It is worth noting that Marcus Buckingham recently ranked Umair #1 among his favorite business bloggers. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to [.].
The Tragic Fall from Specialist to Generalist: Starbucks, the Latest.
In the CEO Afterlife
JUNE 6, 2011
Last week, legendary brand positioning expert Al Ries weighed in on Starbucks reported desire to move away from its powerful ‘specialist’ strategy. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. Branding. The Tragic Fall from Specialist to Generalist: Starbucks, the Latest Victim.
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Execupundit
MARCH 19, 2018
From The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses by Eric RiesStop me if you've heard this one before. Brilliant college kids sitting in a dorm are inventing the future. Heedless of boundaries, possessed of new technology and youthful enthusiasm, they build a company from scratch. Their early success allows them to raise money and bring an amazing new product to market. They hire friends, assemble a superstar team, and dare the world to stop them.
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Execupundit
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
From The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture & Drive Long-Term Growth by Eric Ries
7 Steps to Getting Your Startup Story Right
Rajesh Setty
JULY 16, 2013
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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2017
Leading Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2017
The Startup Way : How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth by Eric Ries. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October. The Power of Moments : Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. The Anticipatory Organization : Turn Disruption and Change into Opportunity and Advantage by Daniel Burrus. Finding My Virginity by Richard Branson.
The 12 Book Rule
Execupundit
MARCH 30, 2018
Bahnsen; The Startup Way by Eric Ries; Still The Best Hope by Dennis Prager; Churchill & Orwell by Thomas E. [Photo by Syd Wachs at Unsplash] My current reading: 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson; Leading a Worthy Life by Leon Kass; Crisis of Responsibility by David L.
From Drucker To The Lean Startup: The (Literary) Evolution of Leadership Philosophy
Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 10, 2013
The Lean Startup – by Eric Ries. I am pleased to present the first More Human Leadership Podcast , a new regular feature at TerryStarbucker.com.
A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs
Leading Blog
JANUARY 26, 2018
What follows are some of the thoughts that resonated with me: Eric Ries: “The mistake isn’t releasing something bad.
Update: The Execupundit Batch of Leadership and Management Books
Execupundit
JULY 18, 2018
Ries, Eric. [Photo by Us Wah at Unsplash] I have no doubt that the list has omitted some great books. Arbinger Institute, The. Leadership and Self-Deception. Aurelius, Marcus, Meditations. Barnes, John A. Ulysses S. Grant on Leadership: Executive Lessons from the Front Lines. Bate, Nicholas.
3 Storytelling Questions Most People Can’t Answer to Make a Connection
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
Which is why most of us really suck at telling our stories. My teenage son Matt had bonked a big test, part of his ongoing problems with homework and tests. And I was pissed off beyond belief. I was done with the games. I told him “the party was %$#@! That I owned him now.
0807 | How Successful Organizations Respond to Customers with Josh Seidan
LDRLB
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
Eric Ries called their most recent book, Sense & Respond , “A crucial framework for the modern world of business.”
White Gold: A Story of Persistence
RapidStart Leadership
MAY 9, 2017
Eric Ries Click To Tweet. With obstacles, frustrations and nay-sayers, how do you find the persistence you need to succeed? It’s one thing to have a great idea or an inspiring vision. Sticking with it until you are successful can be an entirely different matter.
Lean startup, lean company
Lead on Purpose
DECEMBER 12, 2011
This definition comes from Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Ries gives a detailed personal example of this concept from his work at IMVU. Eric Ries does a great job of bringing out important theories and models that will help you succeed whether you’re starting a new company or creating new products at an established corporation. —.
The 5 Whys
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
Eric Ries , entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School, explains how to find the human causes of technical problems. Leadership Operations
Wiki Brands - CEO Blog - Time Leadership
CEO Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2010
Al Ries is one of my brand heros. CEO Blog - Time Leadership Monday, December 27, 2010 Wiki Brands According the the NY Time is a good season to forgive. I agree. Beautiful snow in NY today. Over a foot. Storm is mostly done now. Just blowing and digging out.
The New Psychology of Business Models
The Atman Group
MAY 5, 2012
for business models draws on the work of several very bright entrepreneurs and thinkers, including: Alex Osterwalder, Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and Ash Maurya. Eric Ries. Management 3.0 – a psychological shift. You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it.
Digital Pioneers on Paper
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2011
Yet several of them — Seth Godin, Eric Ries, and Gary Vaynerchuk — have recently published traditional, paper books. The key: Godin, Ries, and Vaynerchuk are all practicing what they preach. Meanwhile, Eric Ries, is using his new book, The Lean Startup , to experiment with the marketing principles he espouses in its pages. Are books dead?
Why Your Social Media Metrics Are a Waste of Time
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 18, 2012
They're what Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup , calls "vanity metrics.". That's what Ries calls an "engine of growth.". Seek out what Ries refers to as "actionable metrics."
The Right Way for an Established Firm to Do an Innovation Pilot with a Startup
Harvard Business Review
MAY 30, 2018
You’re probably familiar with the “minimum viable product” of Eric Ries’ Lean Start-Up fame; but here I’m talking about the acronymically identical “minimum viable pilot.” artpartner-images/Getty Images. For innovation-hungry legacy firms, partnering with a startup can be appealing. Relatively small sums of time and money can quickly yield generous returns.
Don't Let the Minimum Win Over the Viable
Harvard Business Review
MAY 25, 2012
The widespread adoption of Eric Ries 's work beyond Silicon Valley has been a godsend for innovators. As Ries writes, some entrepreneurs hear "minimum viable" product as "smallest imaginable" product.
How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 23, 2014
It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. According to their 2013 Year-in-Review, in the first year, Ries trained 80 coaches exclusively dedicated to FastWorks. GE is an ideal laboratory for applying Lean practices because of its scale,” Ries says. We are all lean now — or soon will be.
Put Failure in Its Place
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 15, 2012
It's about learning the right kind of lesson, or what Lean Startup guru Eric Ries describes as validated learning. Learning is the essential unit of progress for start-ups," writes Ries. You've started a company and it goes belly-up.
Put Failure in Its Place
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 15, 2012
It's about learning the right kind of lesson, or what Lean Startup guru Eric Ries describes as validated learning. Learning is the essential unit of progress for start-ups," writes Ries. You've started a company and it goes belly-up.
Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors
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. In response to Ries’s book , GE adopted lean methods and built its Fastworks program around them. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images. Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years.
The Making of an Innovation Master
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 23, 2012
Eric Ries. Ries builds off the teaching of Innovation Master Steve Blank and urges entrepreneurs to "remove waste" from the creation of new businesses by being very scientific in the management of unknowns. A workshop attendee asked me this seemingly simple question: "So, what else should I read to learn more about innovation?". It's a hard question to answer because there is so much high-quality material out there.
The Barriers Big Companies Face When They Try to Act Like Lean Startups
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 16, 2016
” Lean startup, popularized by writers and entrepreneurs like Eric Ries and Steve Blank, can deliver big benefits inside big companies. Ramazan Balay.
Build Your Brand as a Relationship
Harvard Business Review
MAY 9, 2016
Al Ries and Jack Trout capture the essence of this model in their classic book Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind. The way we think about brands need to change. In the past, they were objects or concepts. You had a relationship with a brand.
In Praise of Irrational Innovators
Harvard Business Review
MAY 4, 2012
As detailed by Steve Blank , Peter Sims , Eric Ries, and others, innovators should follow this mantra as well. I love my three young children immensely. So it's hard for me to be fully rational about them. Of course they are the smartest, the best looking, and the most athletic. I'm not alone — all parents are irrational. We lose sleep worrying about things we can't control and take pride in ridiculously small achievements we had nothing to do with.
Measure Your Team’s Intellectual Diversity
Harvard Business Review
MAY 21, 2015
No one style is better than another, and each carries its own set of benefits to a collaborative discussion.
Become a Company That Questions Everything
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 30, 2014
To encourage company-wide questioning, The Lean Startup ’s Eric Ries says, “It’s not about slogans or putting up posters on the wall — it’s about the systems and the incentives you create to promote the behavior.” Ries points out that at most companies, “the resources flow to the person with the most confident, best plan. Imagine you’re a bright, inquisitive person working for a company with long-established policies and work processes in place (or maybe you don’t have to).
Why Innovators Love Constraints
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
Following Eric Ries' Lean Start-up methodology, instead of going out and raising VC money to manufacture a new electric automobile, Daniel Kim funded his start-up through pre-orders. While dreaming and disrupting has unfettered me in many ways, it has shackled me in others.
Stop Believing That You Have to Be Perfect
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 8, 2014
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. The value of failure has become a mantra in Silicon Valley, with the rise of events like FailCon , a conference “for startup founders to study their own and others’ failures and prepare for success.” Failure, the thinking goes, is an intense form of hands-on education that — when done right — enables you to learn quickly and grow.
CEOs Should Think Like Founders, Not Just Managers
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
As Eric Ries teaches in his books The Lean Startup and The Startup Way , productive failure entails moving forward quickly, understanding that you will be wrong part of the time, learning from your failures, and then using those learnings to correct course and move forward to success. TodUdom/iStock. In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips.
Start-Ups Need a Minimum Viable Brand
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 13, 2014
Tech start-ups employ the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) concept, made popular by Eric Ries in The Lean Start-Up , to test product hypotheses with minimal resources. Sometimes it seems like Steve Jobs’ notorious reality distortion field has extended to all of Silicon Valley.
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