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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

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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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

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 ). Hyundai’s Assurance program, which debuted during the 2007–08 financial crisis, is a great example.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 12 –The Space Force– General John Raymond

Steve Blank

The next demarcation was 2007, when China launched a missile that blew up one of their own satellites into about 3000 pieces of debris. 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.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Looking forward for your future posts.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

The team had to live in Office 2007 for Windows, running virtualized on their Macs. Peter Kazanjy , on November 19, 2009 at 10:36 am Said: Yup. On the VMware Fusion team, we required anyone on the marketing team to a. be a user of software (for the consumer use case).

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8 Common Business Plan Mistakes

Up and Running

You can actually put together a Lean Plan in less than 30 minutes. Here’s a free downloadable Lean Plan Template to help. So make sure you’re ready to wow your prospective investors with your knowledge and leadership skills, and don’t expect your business idea—or the business plan you explain it in—to do the work for you.