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. As the title indicates, the book’s content is geared towards people starting new businesses.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 28, 2012

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Crown Business (2011) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Eric Ries called their most recent book, Sense & Respond , “A crucial framework for the modern world of business.” Over the course of 25 years working in technology Josh has developed specialities that include Lean UX, interaction design, service design, and user experience design in agile software development environments.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

Stefan Ries, Member of the Executive Board, SAP SE, Chief Human Resources Officer. Lewis, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Lockheed Martin. Peter Fasolo, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer at Johnson & Johnson. This article was published in the April 2019 issue of The HR Digest magazine.

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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. You will get an experiential education from investors like Steve Blank, Marc Andreessen, Mary Meeker, Paul Graham, John Doerr, and Ben Horowitz. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 31, 2021

The importance of the “pivot” has been a fundamental part of the entrepreneurial playbook for much of the near-decade it’s been since Eric Ries first published his groundbreaking The Lean Startup but the ability to adapt has been especially crucial during a pandemic in which so much of what we thought we knew has been tipped upside down.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

I am deeply indebted to Al Ries and Jack Trout for advancing branding with their classic book, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind , in which they introduce the concept of positioning, defined as the brand perception residing in a person's mind. It is an excellent book in many ways and still relevant.

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CEO Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Al Ries is one of my brand heros. Mostly it was inspiring because I like marketing and social media and this book is at the intersection of those fields. It inspires me to remain active in Social Media. Sometime the Time Management Guy in me questions if it is a good use of time. I love branding. He talks a lot about positioning.

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Ask Atma

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. In this article, my description of management 3.0 I include links to their work at the end of this piece. I have also taken ideas from the efforts of Tor Grønsund and Rob Fitzpatrick.

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Rajesh Setty

JULY 16, 2013

entrepreneurship Main Page amplify clarify eric ries gamify identify simplify solidify steve blank verify' Gamifying will accelerate the process of adoption and frictionless transfer of your beliefs about the offering. All the best!

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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." Those metrics are the most common false idols of analytics. Vanity metrics look good but fail the "So what?"

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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.

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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.

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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. As we are faced with interim failures in our innovation process, the narrative we construct is key. It's not just that you learn a lesson.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

The widespread adoption of Eric Ries 's work beyond Silicon Valley has been a godsend for innovators. At IDEO, we frequently refer to Ries's work to help clients understand approaches to innovation, and believe that we have identified a few helpful best practices that build on the approach defined in The Lean Startup.

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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. As we are faced with interim failures in our innovation process, the narrative we construct is key. It's not just that you learn a lesson.

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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. General Electric Operations Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

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. Osterwalder's open-sourced, tool-oriented approach makes him a practitioner's dream.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

As Eric Ries points out in his new book The Lean Startup , developing the best code or building the best product in the world is meaningless if your customers don't end up wanting it. Instead, test early and often to ensure you're not wasting your time.

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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.” ” That is, targeted tests designed to deliver unambiguous insight into business value. Think “lean pilots.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

As detailed by Steve Blank , Peter Sims , Eric Ries, and others, innovators should follow this mantra as well. Edwards Deming , the father of the quality movement, had a wonderful quote that described the essence of waste-reducing processes and procedures utilized by companies around the world: "In God we trust; all others must bring data."

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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.

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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. But innovation of any sort entails risk and trying new things – and that mandates failure. A 100% success rate implies you’re not doing anything new at all.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

One of Blank's disciples, Eric Ries , turned his wildly popular Startup Lessons Learned blog into The Lean Startup , one of 2011's best business books. The intellectual leader of the movement is Steve Blank , a serial entrepreneur who now teaches at Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

In The Lean Start-Up , Eric Ries talked about vanity metrics — numbers that create the illusion of success, rather than validate actual progress. In fact, in our book Passion & Purpose , several stories from young leaders involved start-ups. The problem isn't what the message says, but what it doesn't.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Customer Development, a concept popularized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries , calls for spending time in the field with customers to understand their needs and develop product features to meet those needs, as well as to understand the market dynamics themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

As the team crept closer to the target response rate, they had built not only a consistent cadence of build-measure-learn (Eric Ries's Lean Startup validation cycle ) but a more collaborative process that used data, rather than subjective executive decree or completion of a random set of features, to determine their work and success.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

And to make it happen, they're learning to shed the red tape, meetings, managers, and memos that made industrial-age business such a dreary, dismal drag.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

One minute, you've never heard of Eric Ries , and the next he's on the cover of Inc. Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. Other times, the explosion onto the scene is fast and furious.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

One does not have to look any further than Al Ries and Jack Trout's bestseller, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind. Suddenly, our minds shift, and we see a process in which time is shared by both sides.oops, I mean performers, who produce something in concert. I'm really not to blame for viewing marketing as war.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. I love Lean.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In The Lean Start-Up , Eric Ries, a next generation thought leader and a clear successor to Clayton Christensen, provides a scientific approach to managing innovation, whether at a one-person start-up or Fortune 100 company. A leader leans into the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

As I described in a previous post , GE is working with Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author recognized for pioneering the Lean Startup movement. The Lean Startup approach is enabling GE to take “ Agile ” and “ Lean ” methods, which they had been using to improve operations, and apply them to starting businesses.

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