Leadership Requires Creating Conditions That Enable Employees

Lean Thinking Defines Value As Providing Benefit To The Customer; Anything Else Is Waste.

As You Consider Building Your Own Minimum Viable Product, Let This Simple Rule Suffice: Remove Any Feature, Process, Or Effort That Does Not Contribute Directly To The Learning You Seek.

A Head Start Is Rarely Large Enough To Matter, And Time Spent In Stealth Mode-away From Customers-is Unlikely To Provide A Head Start. The Only Way To Win Is To Learn Faster Than Anyone Else.

Innovation Is A Bottoms-up, Decentralized, And Unpredictable Thing, But That Doesn’t Mean It Cannot Be Managed.

In My First Start-up, I Had An Initial Advertising Budget Of $5 Per Day Total. That Would Buy Us 100 Clicks Per Day. At $5 Per Day, Marketing People Scoffed And Said That Is Too Small To Matter. But If You Think About It, To An Engineer, 100 Real Humans Everyday Giving Your Product A Try Means You Can Really Start Improving.