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

YoungUpstarts

Levine was an early proponent of agile and is a veteran of systems change and technology management. I’ve spent my career doing large-scale high impact technology management for major US institutions. Before I wrote my first book I spent a few weeks at a University of Michigan seminar on lean product development.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

It’s not that these companies are smarter than Defense Department employees, but they operate with different philosophies, different product development methodologies, and with different constraints. At times this means startups operate at speeds so fast they appear to be a blur to government agencies. Startups can do anything.

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Each of these GM divisions focused on its own day-to-day operations with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss. There’s the Alfred P.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle.

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From Dyslexia to CEO: How my learning disabilities taught me to be a successful entrepreneur

The Next Web

My teacher was Mrs. Whitefield and the somewhere else was a quiet classroom where Mrs. Whitefield taught me the skills to manage my dyslexia and attention deficit disorder (ADD). When I came up with the idea for Remind101, I was a university student struggling to manage my class load. Teachers are busy people!

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Support Your Fellow Entrepreneurs, Vote in SXSW 2020 Panel Pickers!

Austin Startup

FAKING IT IN TECH SXSW Conference | Track: Tech Industry & Enterprise Speakers: Maryann Alspaugh, Programs Manager at Capital Factory The Pitch: How did it get here? Moderator Josh Reola of Cisco Webex will facilitate a discussion about this new era of workplace transformation with leaders from PWC, Expedia and Google.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

In addition to entrepreneurship, she has a background in chemical engineering, supply chain management, biomedical engineering research, microbiology research, and new product development for U.S. We moved our company from Michigan to Baltimore in 2015, and it was a great decision for us. and Indian companies.