Reverse Mentoring: What Millennials Can Teach Executives and Managers
Reverse mentoring involves the pairing of employees from different generations who can offer unique experiences and perspectives to their partner.
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203 articles on innovation, lean startup, and entrepreneurship
Building on the Grit and Growth Mindset
Our new office plant inspires some thoughts about the growth mindset, entrepreneurship, and more.
Organizational Culture Case Study: Lean Experiments with Radical Candor
The best-selling book Radical Candor suggests fostering better team relationships by conducting regular 1-on-1 meetings with direct reports. We decided to run lean experiments on this tactic to see how it would work for the Kromatic team. This case study tells you everything you need to know about how we set up and ran this small-scale human resources experiment.
B2B Startup Sales: A Lean Approach
Have you thought about using Lean Startup to improve your sales process? The founder of Shipitwise reveals how he used lean principles to improve B2B sales.
Innovation Metric - In Defense of Experiment Velocity
As corporate innovation gets more trendy, businesses are keen to put clear KPIs in place to measure the effectiveness of innovation teams and hold them accountable for making progress. There is a rush to replace traditional KPIs with more actionable metrics such as experiment velocity.
Ten Monster Projects That Will Kill Your Career As an Intrapreneur
We can be entrepreneurial and still get a paycheck...or that’s what they claim. “I’m an intrapreneur!” is the new rallying cry inside corporations.
Guest Post: Want to know Corporate Innovation definition? Avoid These Three Pitfalls
Guest Blogger Valerie Vacante writes, "Avoid these three common pitfalls when pursuing corporate innovation."
How Diversity Can Drive Innovation? - Innovation & Ecosystem
Diversity is a hot topic, but what is not often discussed is the fact that diverse teams are more innovative. Read more about why diversity is an innovation metric.
Why Meritocracy Doesn’t Work
The anti-diversity manifesto written by a mystery Googler has put a spotlight on diversity efforts in the tech industry. Anti-diversity proponents say that meritocracy justifies the lack of diversity in tech. But the real question is: Does meritocracy work?
Measuring Innovation | Iteration Time = Time to Learn, Not Time to Build
Burn rates are meaningless in isolation. Iteration time is a critical aspect of starting a new business and we've noted a few misconceptions.
Guest Post: Introducing The Customer Happiness Canvas
The Customer Happiness Canvas is a tool for teams to visualize strategies for getting and keeping customers.
Importance = Business Impact * Uncertainty
How we define “important” defines how we spend our days. We can endlessly debate what’s important without actually doing anything about any of it.