Culture Demo Leadership LEAN 
Moves the Needle
AUGUST 7, 2023
By trusting their teams to self-organize, leaders foster a culture of trust that not only helps build morale and employee engagement, but also frees the leader to focus on obstacles to growth. This approach cultivates a culture of learning and growth within the team. Delegation is not about becoming a project manager.
Econic
MAY 23, 2019
Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. Failure to secure sustained funding We see a lot of grassroots efforts around lean startup or other innovation efforts try to work within existing budgets.
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 27, 2015
We create minimal viable products to test hypotheses/our vision, and we build a culture that supports innovation. A director shares his latest progress in the the form of storyboards, demo reels, etc. I found other parallels between Pixar’s method for managing innovation and what we built in the Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps incubators.
Econic
APRIL 10, 2018
Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.
Econic
MAY 23, 2019
Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.
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. Here are our thoughts about how to confront the Red Queen trap and adapt a government agency to infuse continuous innovation in its culture and practices.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
It didn’t help that “innovation” was the new hot-button buzzword from senior leadership, and incubators were sprouting in every division of their company, it just made their job more unmanageable. Approvals tended to be based on who had the best demo and/or slides or lobbied the hardest. As the head of the U.S. Lessons Learned.
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