
Agile on the Edges: Managing Misfits
06/13/18 • 22 min
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The Spreadsheet Troll: Tales of Silos and Scaling
When companies get big, they stop innovating. In this episode, Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, talks with Stanford Professor Bob Sutton about ways to fight back against the sluggishness of scale. If you really want employees to come up with new ideas, Ries says, workplace posters and glib slogans won’t cut it. You’ve got to measure innovation and reward it, failures and all.
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