Tag Archives: The Lean Startup
This past Memorial Day got me reflecting on the warriors I’ve known–some fallen, many still alive and well–not just soldiers fighting on foreign soil, but also those protecting our home turf. I teach a one-day innovation course twice a year at the California Command College, an advanced continuing education series for future police chiefs. My position evolved out of one of the funnest engagements I’ve ever had: the nearly three years I worked with the …
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Every day, we are bombarded with messages about how to get things done. We hear a lot less, though, about how to get things right. Most waste in business operations come not from doing the right work inefficiently, but simply doing the wrong work in the first place. Here are three books that should be on the reading list of anyone charged with managing and improving business operations. Only one of them is a traditional …
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By the end of 2011, I’ll have reviewed over 50 books here, in the weekly “Guru Review.” But by now, most books have already hit the shelves in time for the holiday business-gift-giving season. To help you find the perfect gift book for the business person in your life, I’ve selected my “favorite 15″ business books of 2011. You can’t go wrong with any of these, because they all do three things well: inform, inspire …
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It’s a fact that the vast majority of startups fail. But according to Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, those failures can be prevented if you take a structured and scientific approach. “Startup success can be engineered by following a process,” he says. And if there’s a process, that means it can be learned. Ries’s goal is to teach that process to entrepreneurs everywhere. “Lean” is the term James P. Womack and Daniel T. …
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