YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In his new book “ People Over Process: Leadership for Agility “, technology expert Michael K. I was an early adopter in financial operations and software of lean operational and product development techniques that originated at Toyota, and then of agile as it was promulgated in the Manifesto.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2017

Lean is a methodology that can be applied to all disciplines of knowledge work to increase business efficiency, agility, and visibility. Due to its roots in manufacturing, Lean is often equated with the elimination of waste, but this view of Lean misses the mark on realizing its true value. Lean Transformations.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2022

That often involves working long hours and keeping your costs lean. But there comes a time when bringing on executive leadership is the reasonable and right next step. Another benefit of filling executive leadership roles is that doing so will likely free up time you can spend on other things. What does the C-suite look like?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2012

Follow Weekly Leader to find the latest in leadership news and best practices for improvement. This blog offers great advice for transforming yourself into a lean and mean manager. Read Jamie Flinchbaugh’s blog about transformational leadership to find out how you can get to your ideal state as a manager. Managing Leadership.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. Since then, Brant and Patrick have been tireless advocates for the whole Lean Startup movement. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. You can pre-order it starting today.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

EE Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:30 am Said: [.] This is the pivot, a crucial tactical maneuver for the lean startup [.] Reply Ashu Sharma , on April 27, 2010 at 11:44 pm Said: Steve, Great post!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:29 am Said: [.] Reply Lean Startup Customer Discovery & the Value of First Impressions , on January 25, 2010 at 6:12 am Said: [.] Reply Yuri Ammosov , on December 15, 2009 at 4:28 pm Said: Hmmm. Then WHAT it IS?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2021

Cohen in his classic book, “ Just Ask Leadership: Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions ,” as leaders advance, they tend to oblige by asking fewer questions and providing more answers. Cohen provides specific insights to seek in particular situations, while also explaining how to create a culture of question-based leadership.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Follow me on twitter @sgblank Follow my speaking schedule on Plancast @sgblank RSS Feed RSS - Posts Email Subscription Blogroll Alexander Osterwalder Andrew Chen Ben Horowitz Brant Cooper Dave McClure Eric Ries Great Advice Lean Startup Circle Mark Suster – Both Sides of the Table Sean Ellis Sean Murphy To Be an Entrepreneur Tom Byers – (..)

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

For example, Lean Startup offers many benefits to emerging organizations, especially considering its focus on crafting a minimum viable product (MVP). However, quickly determine other sectors worthy of interest and try to hire leadership and tech talent experienced in those areas. Manage Agency Growth to Expand at a Proper Rate.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2019

Leadership requires braving uncharted waters and choppy seas. As a leadership coach, I often witness well-developed plans collapse shortly after they’re born. A purpose-driven leadership style. Purposeful leadership involves: Knowing why you’re doing what you’re doing. Boldness: The Good Versus the Bad.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2015

I was in New York last week teaching my annual 5-day version of the Lean LaunchPad class at the Columbia Business School. Women founders already had leadership roles in the industries they’re about to disrupt? Filed under: Family/Career/Culture , Lean LaunchPad , Venture Capital. —— Entrepreneurship at Columbia.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

There are several lines of effort that we’re focusing on: We’re working to build the Space Force as a very Lean and Agile service. That’s the leadership team. It is trying to do things differently, building a lean and agile organization. We have to present those forces to a warfighting commander.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Based on my years of experience as a new business advisor, I always find leadership to be more important to business success than any new technology or innovative solution. The challenge is to adequately define leadership in terms of everyday activities. The most effective and satisfying leadership comes without a title to lean on.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Lean Six Sigma. Whereas Six Sigma is focused on achieving consistent results, Lean Six Sigma aims to increase flow by reducing wastage and shortening cycle times. Training is typically based on Lean Six Sigma and uses a system of belts based on Karate colours. Project Management Professional (PMP).

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Leadership Experience. It should be no surprise that great startup leaders also have some kind of past leadership experience, but this doesn’t have to come from a startup. You can get leadership experience in any context where you’re in charge of other people. There are many different viable leadership philosophies.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

At times I wanted the engineering team to produce features to support our sales efforts to I occasionally leaned on them a bit. But as your company grows and you bring in professional sales leadership you can no longer do this. But overriding sales leadership is as destructive as overriding product management. I did this.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2019

If you lack leadership skills or poorly manage your company’s time and resources, it is likely your business will be left behind. Organizational and leadership management (Enhance your management capabilities). To ensure you create a successful, profitable and long-lasting brand, read the six biggest challenges businesses face today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

Leadership with general and domain knowledge. Implement “lean startup” principles. The lean startup methodology, popularized by Eric Ries about ten years ago, expedites new business success through iterative solution cycles, focused business experiments, and validated learning. Instead, find a partner with domain experience.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

his next article on SuperMac, “Building the Killer Team – Mission, Intent, and Values&# , Steve further pounds the table on some principles of leadership that I think are [.] Reply How to close a term sheet quickly - Venture Hacks , on April 28, 2009 at 10:43 am Said: [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. The Lean Startup team has been hard at work finalizing the details of this year’s Lean Startup Week. Welcome to Lean Startup Week 2016 TL;DR: Before you dive into the details, here’s a quick look at what you can expect during your week with us: On Oct.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

This is the magic number for leadership teams, product teams, research teams, design teams, and more. For example, FedEx — a giant, incredibly complex company — has streamlined its core leadership team to CEO Fred Smith and 10 direct reports. Remember, lean and hungry is always better than fat and comfortable.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

Go lean with your planning. A startup is about execution and speed, so you need to start lean. You need your minimum viable product (MVP), you need to show how you’re better than competitors , you need good leadership skills, and you need traction. You learn this a lot faster by working at other startups first.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2013

by Vickie Milazzo, author of “ Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman “ The release of “ Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead “, the new book by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (pictured), has sparked a firestorm of attention from the media and folks around conference room tables throughout the country.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Inversely, if you’re using the agency model to fund another startup or product, you should probably keep things lean. The hard work is building out a team that can deliver on those services, along with leadership that can ensure a smooth operation and a stellar service for clients.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2019

Don’t just ‘lean in.’ Women need to take a posture of leadership and readiness, taking ownership of their own development and job advancement. You have to stop this line of thinking in its tracks the minute you catch yourself going there. Stay in your own lane, doing the unique things you were wired to do. You must Stand Up!

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2017

Their study wasn’t specifically about entrepreneurship, but it stands to reason that women, especially millennial women, had some good reasons to lean toward forging their own path—essentially sidestepping inequalities by building their own companies. Millennial women are redefining leadership and entrepreneurship. Work harder.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2013

For instance, maybe your leadership is consistently undermined because you avoid confronting insubordinate team members. If he leans forward, you should lean forward too. With this information, you can acknowledge that your critter brain wants to avoid a fight at all costs. If he speaks softly and slowly, so should you.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2014

Lean and hungry. He is also the publisher of Forbes magazine, where he writes a column, Innovation Rules, known for its witty assessment of business and leadership issues. Work your way to the smallest number, then subtract one. This advice has been borne out by numerous business leaders. That’s where you start.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Appointing Outpost leadership as a temporary assignment leads to weak relations between the innovation ecosystem and the Innovation Outpost and increases the risk of failure. Do we have a Lean Startup Methodology in place? Does your Stage 1 outpost have Technology Connectors as its key leadership/staff? Lessons Learned.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2016

As the leader of a team, the key skill you need to head a strong team is leadership. If it doesn’t come quite as naturally to you, study different leadership styles and techniques. Lean is a system of management started primarily by Toyota’s identification of the key sources of waste.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Management is doing the things right; leadership is doing the right things: This Peter Drucker quote is one of Ellen Glasgow’s greatest inspirations. It is a reminder that leading with purpose differs from other kinds of leadership. Glasgow finds cohesion when considering leadership as a path to walk alongside your team.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Workplace cultures differ around the world, and not surprisingly, leadership styles tend to also vary as shaped by the different cultural norms in a particular society. From autocratic style management to more egalitarian ones, there are specific overarching philosophies that drive leadership styles in different countries.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The good news for the country is that the leadership of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency has decided to turn the ship now. The Innovation Insurgency.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. Department of Defense by adopting Lean Methodology inside their agency. The good news for the country is that the leadership of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency has decided to turn the ship now. The Innovation Insurgency.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The idea of exploitation versus exploration was central in my own work in building the lean methodology for start-ups. Today, lean is the de facto method for building new start-ups. Recognizing the need for ambidexterity and building an ambidextrous organization are tests of corporate leadership. Companies that survive do both.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2023

We also run a lean business, with regular budgets and reviews of expenses. Collaborating with a strong leadership team, seeking external expertise, and staying informed about economic trends are also critical for CEOs to effectively navigate economic uncertainties. Thanks to Sonia Gibson, Accounting Heart Chartered Accountants ! #10-

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