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096: Bringing the Lean Startup into Your Organization: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty | with Jeff Dyer

Engaging Leader

Resources Mentioned in This Episode Book: The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization Forbes article: How Being a Good Manager Can Make You a Bad Innovator Website: TheInnovatorsMethod.com Twitter: @Jeffrey_Dyer Subscription Links iTunes Stitcher RSS Your Feedback If you like our show, please rate us on iTunes.

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Focus - Concentrate on one thing at a time.

Your Voice of Encouragement

Unfortunately, multi-tasking has often been perceived as a characteristic of energetic, hard-working, and goal-driven workers; a necessity to get things done in a competitive, time-to-market world. We're beginning to see, however, that multi-tasking is not necessarily the ideal work style that it's been thought to be.

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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

After discovering a new material that achieves the same texture in a foot cream , they were able to shorten their time to market by finding and partnering with the leading researcher in developing this ingredient and launching their first hair product successfully. Follow Amir at @golan_amir.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.

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Are You a Rebel or a Leader?

Harvard Business Review

And then this small voice, untraceable for a moment because it was so small, started to explain how this plan would put the company in 2nd place in almost every aspect of innovation or time to market. So the challenging, dissenting voice can, at times, be tied to leadership. The voice grew in clarity and volume.

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How to Tell Your Team That Organizational Change Is Coming

Harvard Business Review

How New Managers Can Send the Right Leadership Signals. When one client had to consolidate multiple operations to increase efficiency and reduce time to market, it was clear that there wouldn’t be room for all the incumbent leaders. You and Your Team Series. Becoming a Manager. Karen Dillon. Amy Jen Su. Laura Delizonna.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business Review

I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. It’s killing the whole business. What can I do?” So, take the initiative.