The Podcast
Why you should watch it ☝️
When the godfather of Lean Startup methodology shares a new idea, you know it’s going to be worth listening to. On this episode, I’m joined by none other than Eric Ries, the man who introduced us all to MVPs and the application of the scientific method to entrepreneurship.
Since the beginning of Innovate, Disrupt, or Die, I’ve argued vehemently that companies today structure themselves for efficiency and inherently limit their own ability to innovate. In his latest book, Incorruptible, Eric is taking that same thought a step further: today’s companies are effectively built to corrupt themselves.
His argument is clear: the corporate mandate to maintain a fiduciary duty to its shareholders, instead of to its customers, is the very thing that ultimately destroys even the most successful organizations. But in Incorruptible, Eric also reveals how to avoid that fate.
In this episode:
Why public companies seem to get worse over time
Why short-term incentives dominate almost every decision
Why “customer obsession” so often turns into extraction
Whether it’s actually possible to scale without losing integrity
Why so many founders eventually lose control of the thing they built
Here’s a teaser…
Where to find Eric Ries 👇
Find Eric on Linkedin and get a copy of Incorruptible at the link below.
What You Missed on Sunday
Here’s what we covered in Sunday’s newsletter edition…
An Open Call for Innovators
If your career has taken you across industries, disciplines, or org types that don't usually talk to each other, you already know how poorly the standard tools handle your story. Job boards weren't built for it. LinkedIn wasn't designed for it. The resume format actively works against it.
You've probably spent more time than you'd like trying to compress twenty years of cross-functional, cross-industry work into a format built for someone whose career went in a straight line. And the thing that makes you genuinely valuable, the range, the pattern recognition, the ability to see the same problem differently because you've watched it fail in four other industries, is exactly what gets lost in translation.
This week, we're opening submissions for something launching soon. Discover an Innovator will be a curated section of this newsletter: profiles of innovation professionals who are ready for what's next, written in a format that asks the questions a good hiring conversation would actually get to. Submissions are open now, and we want yours to be one of them.
Here’s what you’ll find:
This Week’s Article: An Open Call for Innovators
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