Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 1, 2018

Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework. Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2019

While we all solve problems, managers and consultants are professionals — they’re hired and paid to do so. Iconoclastic management scholar Henry Mintzberg, one of the first to study what managers do, found they spend much of their time solving problems. First, develop a well-specified statement of the problem.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 4, 2022

Last week, I wrote about the concept of the Operating Philosophy , and how it fits with a company’s Operating Framework and Operating System and defines the essence of who you are as a company…what form of company you are. We have labeled our company a “Mostly Self Managed Organization” or MSMO (pronounced Miz-Moh).

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2014

“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. For instance, many managers wait for the end of the year before beginning an employee performance review. If you’re in control, they’re in control.” ” – Tom Landry. launch the new strategy quickly, etc etc etc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

You’ll hear from Staples on the five positive emotions that are the most effective in content to get people to lean forward and share: happiness, awe, curiosity, empathy, and surprise. Alison Levine is a leadership expert, polar explorer, and mountaineer who is no stranger to extreme environments. Steven M.R. Hall, Ph.D.,

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ). Frameworks for businesses during a crisis. There will be a recovery and we need to be prepared for it.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2022

Corporate culture refers to the beliefs, behaviors, and policies that determine any business’s framework. From upper management to the employees on the bottom rung, everyone gets heard and seen. 3. Makes You Prioritize Leadership. Your educational degree will help you decipher the meaning of service leadership.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2017

As an innovation economy, Canada is seen as a world leader and one of the best places to innovate, so there is certainly support there to lean on. As the first winner of Nature Canada’s Young Women for Nature Award , Chloe’s leadership in helping to foster relationships with nature for kids is truly inspiring. It was my pleasure.

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 23, 2023

Without further adieu, here’s your list – from me to you: Business Planning and Strategy: The Lean Startup by Eric Ries – How to build a business using an iterative and customer-focused approach. My work in this space: Surge, The Pumpkin Plan Financial Management: Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!:

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Every startup has some methodology for product development, launch and life-cycle management. Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. In this post I’m going to describe the flaws of the product development model. It’s a big idea.)

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2023

The 5 Key Skills That Successful Managers Possess written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Dave Dodson In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Dave Dodson. Questions I ask Dave Dodson: [02:08] How do you define the term manager ? [03:27] Like this show?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

15:59] What’s the first strategic sort of leadership hire that you think an agency needs? [17:07] They try to manage a lot. And a lot of that's, uh, complex journal entries you're having to maintain and manage. Jason Blumer (09:15): So, and that's kind of leaning them into the accrual world versus cash reporting.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How does a cat manage to always land on their feet when falling from any height? Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: The ultimate disrupter | Fortune Management – [link].

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. The first question to ask is: “Does your startup have market risk or is it dominated by technical risk?” Lean Startup /Customer Development is used to find answers to the unknowns about customers and markets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2019

I’m an entrepreneur and the author of The Lean Startup. Since writing The Lean Startup, I’ve traveled around the world, helping companies of every size adopt the Lean Startup approach. In just five years, the Lean Startup movement has grown and transformed in ways I never could have imagined.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Much of the writing on startups focuses on two elements: finding product-market fit scaling the company once #1 is accomplished For product-market fit, we have a lot of source material to work with from the last decade: Steve Blank’s leadership on Customer Development , and Eric Ries’ on the Lean Startup ?—?along Stanford’s CS183c?—?Blitzscaling

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 22, 2018

94% of managers are unsatisfied with their companies innovation performance. Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. Training Accelerates Innovation.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

In Hooked , Eyal explores the “Hook Model” framework, a four-step process used by some of the most well-known companies and products today. Based on the idea that we all have an entrepreneur, manager , and technician inside of us, the book equips you to make the most of each skill set. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (2011).

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Web Sales is considered a channel in the same way our call-centre, local branches and customer account managers are. In this post let me share with you a common sense framework I use in my consulting engagements to figure out a home for web analysts. I see a few different options but would be happy to hear your opinion. Everyone wins.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

APRIL 22, 2019

Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Framework training is useful, but you can get into the weeds and get killed if you don’t have other fundamentals sorted out.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 17, 2021

Gregg knows several innovation frameworks, including Design Thinking and Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving (aka “CPS). He’s familiar with tools in Lean, Agile, and DeBono’s Thinking Hats.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Design Thinking is a popular framework that is viewed as best practice, but it’s only part of the solution. All participants walk away with a shell framework and ideas they can put to immediate use. REGISTER NOW.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Gamification is the process of deploying gaming techniques designs to the business framework. Often, technology is integrated into the gamification process that leads to innovation in the process along with the personnel growth, employee performance management, and escalation of a learning curve.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Thinking through our metaphor/framework for enterprise sales that I wrote about in an earlier post – from Whiteboard to Powerpoint to PDF – great CROs know when they aren’t yet in PDF mode. Reps who are overpaid get “fat and happy,” when what you want is for them to be “lean and hungry.” The worst thing a CRO can do?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” A canonical Lean Innovation process inside a company or government agency would look something like this: Curation. A shorter version of this post first appeared on the HBR blog.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. But the rest of the management team really skeptical. And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Reply Best books for the lean product managers — Justin Gibbs , on April 28, 2009 at 2:44 pm Said: [.] guiado por um framework comum e pouco questionado na indústria. Steve chama esse framework de Product Development Model. familiar with Customer Development you should be.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems. The Lean Innovation process is a self-regulating, evidence-based innovation pipeline. Everything on that canvas is a hypothesis.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 30, 2016

The following concepts, frameworks, approaches, etc. Lean is not innovation. Some projects will be inside a well defined framework and some will be flying-by-the-seat-of-your-pants. Innovation is complex and difficult — but one thing about it is not. are Not Innovation. Unless they are in the context of an actual project.

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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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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. Yet we used the product development model not only to manage product development, but as a road map for finding customers and to time our marketing launch and sales revenue plan. Ortho kills.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Key Takeaway: Being adaptable and flexible have always been hallmarks of effective leadership and living a fulfilling life. 14:18] Would calling your book a change management book be doing it a disservice? [16:32] 16:32] Your book has a framework of eight superpowers. And it's also from a leadership perspective, for sure.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2024

Jeff Wetzler, co-CEO of Transcend, is on a mission to transform learning opportunities by blending leadership experiences from business and education. With a quarter-century quest under his belt, he’s pioneered innovative approaches to leadership. And then the second thing that I would say to lean in heavily on is make it safe.

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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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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The two options aren’t mutually exclusive: If you hire an agency, you can lean on them to help you build and run (or speed up) an in-house CRO program. As Viljo Vabrit, Managing Director of CXL Agency notes: The best goal for every organization should be running a CRO program in-house. “We This process should be data-driven.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 30, 2019

Comprehensive Immersion Course for: Innovation Project Managers, Teams, Executives, Facilitators. Send new project leaders, managers, facilitators, and essential innovation team members. Two key areas of instruction are essential project management steps and the “how-to” of innovation facilitation. Why innovation?

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