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The Lean Startup:
Startups need organizational structures that combat the extreme uncertainty that is a startup’s chief enemy.
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The Lean Startup:
Contrary to common belief, lethargy and bureaucracy are not the inevitable fate of companies as they achieve maturity.
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The Lean Startup:
Today’s companies must learn to master a management portfolio of sustainable and disruptive innovation.
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The Lean Startup:
…in process-oriented work… individual performance is not nearly as important as the overall performance of the system.
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The Lean Startup:
…by reducing batch size, we can get through the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop more quickly than our competitors.
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The Lean Startup:
The ability to learn faster from customers is the essential competitive advantage that startups must possess.
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The Lean Startup:
Small batches pose a challenge to managers steeped in traditional notions of productivity and progress, because they believe that functional specialization is more efficient for expert workers.
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The Lean Startup:
So strong is the instinct to work in large batches, that even when a large-batch system is malfunctioning, we have a tendency to blame ourselves.
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The Lean Startup:
Process is only the foundation upon which a great company culture can develop… without [it], efforts to encourage learning, creativity, and innovation will fall flat…
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The Lean Startup:
The Lean Startup works only if we are able to build an organization as adaptable and fast as the challenges it faces.
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