Eric Ries
Person on 4 sites
Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, who advises companies on corporate governance and mission protection.
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31 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Organizations are dragged into mediocrity by a force no one controls but everyone obeys, until their founders lose control of what they built. (opens korrents.com)
“I call it the force that no one controls but everyone obeys that tends to drag organizations down into mediocrity to the point that we lose control of them. Now, sometimes we lose control of them because we get fired.”
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What destroys great companies is not competition but their own success, because the more golden the goose the greater the temptation to butcher it. (opens korrents.com)
“all kinds of famous companies where the thing that destroyed them was not competition. It was not someone else came up with a better product. No, their very success became a liability because the more golden the goose,…”
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If you do not get your company's governance right, none of your other decisions will matter for the long term, because you will not be the one making them. (opens korrents.com)
“If you don't get this right, no other decision you make about your company will matter for the long term because you're not going to be the one making it.”
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Organizations are dragged into mediocrity by a force no one controls but everyone obeys, until their founders lose control of what they built. (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Enlightened Capitalists (opens rcmnd.app)
“there's a book called the enlightened capitalists that is just a hundred years of people trying to fix this problem at failing and like the detailed case studies and like no founder should ever read it end to end it's…”
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The Dandelion Dynasty (opens rcmnd.app)
“I really want more people to read Ken L the dandelion Dynasty it's a it's a silk Punk fantasy series but it's written by he's a wonderful writer and it's it's like if you want to see what like real optimism about…”
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The Murderbot Diaries (opens rcmnd.app)
“a really good audio book is the murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells she's just such a great writer”
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The Enlightened Capitalists (opens rcmnd.app)