Retooling Your Organization for the Road Ahead
What does innovation really mean? It seems most people think innovation means a shiny new object — a product, a service, or an original pricing model that shakes up the markets. But in today’s world,…
Author: Heather McGough
Innovation in the Age of Coronavirus: Redefining What Is Essential
What is absolutely essential? How has the ongoing pandemic affected our basic needs—for food, security, connection and autonomy? In most cases, even though the world may be changing rapidly, our basic needs don’t actually change…
Leading in the Age of Rapid Change
Let’s be honest. For many organizations, even daily operations have become a survival-level struggle. Businesses everywhere are being severely tested by the pandemic and its devastation. Whether you’re working to bring in revenue in spite…
The Turning Point: A Radically New Way of Working and Living
Over the past few weeks we’ve seen how much can change in an instant. Global uncertainty can cause massive analysis paralysis and jam up decision-making—even in the face of an urgent need for action. We’ve…
Six Traits Shared by the Most Innovative Thinkers
How do you spot an innovator? Which characteristics should you look for in a business environment where almost nothing ever slows down? One certainty is that a culture of innovation allows companies to surf the…
Lean Startup Co. is Teaching Companies to Fish
“Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.” As the world accelerates toward the iconic year of 2020, I’d like to hit pause…
12 Tips For Managing a Remote Team (And Loving It)
The future of work is both near and far. It’s near because things are changing right in front of you, but far because that’s where the remote workers are. Not only are more people working…
The Complications of Oversimplifying Lean Startup
Do you know what people are really talking about when they say “lean operations” or “running lean?” More importantly, do you know how those methodologies differ from Lean Startup? Many people seem to use those…
The Values Series, Part II: Transforming How We Build Community in the 21st Century
In part one of this series, we looked back at the growth of Lean Startup thinking and its influence over the past decade. From the very beginning concepts relating to: open source models, free, shareable…
The Values Series, Part I: Transforming How We Think and Work in the 21st Century
I can hardly believe it myself, but this year marks the 10th anniversary of the modest proposal Eric Ries first posted on his Startup Lessons Learned blog. Reactions to his observations were swift and enthusiastic,…