Entrepreneurial guru Steve Blank (awesome systems thinker) has an article coming out on the cover of Harvard Business Review this month: “Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything.” I really appreciate the framework of the Lean Startup approach and I’m a big fan of the movement. One thing I notice that’s missing from it is a discussion on the lifecycle stages
The following is an excerpt from Organizational Physics – The Science of Growing a Business. If you’re a growth-oriented CEO, entrepreneur, or department manager, then you’re naturally under pressure to lead your business to greater levels of performance. You also need to do this in a fast-moving, turbulent, evolving marketplace. A lot is riding on your judgment and leadership and
If I were to ask you a random and seemingly strange question, “Why does a rocket behave the way it does and how is it different from a parachute that behaves the way it does?” You’d probably say something like, “Well, duh, they’re designed differently. One is designed to go fast and far and the other is designed to cause
AI Won’t Replace Your Leadership Team. It Will Transform It. There’s a lot of noise about AI taking over jobs, departments, even entire companies. But the CEOs I work with aren’t asking whether AI will replace people. They’re asking: How should we restructure our leadership and execution teams to harness the real capabilities of AI? That’s the right question. And
Decoupling long-range and short-range orientation inside the structure unlocks energy as you can tackle the long term without compromising the immediate needs of the short term. , Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, Yoco was founded in 2015 and has grown to become South Africa’s leading mobile payments solution. CEO Katlego Maphai engaged with Lex and Organizational Physics to conduct
Using Organizational Physics, we sold the business with an annual run rate of several hundred million, which was an increase of 1000% from just two years earlier. Since 2005, BioIQ has launched thousands of successful health testing programs serving millions of participants. An Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Southeast Region USA, and the company’s Founder & Former CEO,
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