Quotes About Organization

Yet if the fundamental goal of entrepreneurship is to engage in organization building under conditions of extreme uncertainty, its most vital function is learning. We must learn the truth about which elements of our strategy are working to realize our vision and which are just crazy. We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want. We must discover whether we are on a path that will lead to growing a sustainable business.

Once a team is set up, what should it do? What process should it use? How should it be held accountable to performance milestones?

To introduce Five Whys to an organization, it is necessary to hold Five Whys sessions as new problems come up. Since baggage issues are endemic, they naturally come up as part of the Five Whys analysis and you can take that opportunity to fix them incrementally. If they don't come up organically, maybe they're not as big as they seem.

Although the primary changes that are required in an adaptive organization are in the mind-set of its employees, changing the culture is not sufficient. As we saw in Chapter 9, lean management requires treating work as a system and then dealing with the batch size and cycle time of the whole process. Thus, to achieve lasting change, the QuickBooks team had to invest in tools and platform changes that would enable the new, faster way of working.

The Principles of Scientific Management,

Remember, most mistakes are caused by flawed systems, not bad people. The

The parent organization has to make it clear who the innovator is and make sure the innovator receives credit for having brought the new product to life—if it is successful.

In 1911 Taylor wrote: "In the past, the man has been first; in the future, the system must be first." Taylor's prediction has come to pass.

Conventionally, advice about internal innovators focuses on protecting the startup from the parent organization. I believe it is necessary to turn this model on its head.

We often frame internal innovation challenges by asking, How can we protect the internal startup from the parent organization? I would like to reframe and reverse the question: How can we protect the parent organization from the startup? In my experience, people defend themselves when they feel threatened, and no innovation can flourish if defensiveness is given free rein. In fact, this is why the common suggestion to hide the innovation team is misguided.

It is unfair to criticize these managers for their response; the criticism should be aimed at senior executives who failed to design a supportive system in which to operate and innovate.

As startups grow, entrepreneurs can build organizations that learn how to balance the needs of existing customers with the challenges of finding new customers to serve, managing existing lines of business, and exploring new business models—all at the same time. And,

Entrepreneurship is management

Yet if the fundamental goal of entrepreneurship is to engage in organization building under conditions of extreme uncertainty, its most vital function is learning.

todavía es más impresionante el hecho de que Toyota haya creado la organización de aprendizaje más avanzada de la historia. Ha demostrado la capacidad de desencadenar la creatividad de sus empleados, conseguir un crecimiento consistente y producir nuevos productos innovadores sin cesar a lo largo de casi un siglo.[13

Los sistemas que tan bien funcionan en las empresas pequeñas no pueden trasladarse al ecosistema más grande que necesitan las empresas en crecimiento, por lo que la empresa llega a un punto de estancamiento.

focus on the boring stuff: how to measure progress, how to set up milestones, and how to prioritize work.

The Lean Startup works only if we are able to build an organization as adaptable and fast as the challenges it faces. This

In fact, entrepreneurship should be considered a viable career path for innovators inside large organizations.

Building a startup is an exercise in institution building; thus, it necessarily involves management. This

La creación de una startup es un ejercicio de creación de una institución; por lo tanto, requiere management.

Remember, most mistakes are caused by flawed systems, not bad people.

Only then, as a result of his light-creating and space-creating intervention, was there heaven above and earth below, back and front, left and right-in other words, only then was space organized with reference to an ego.

good summary: to hire people who are a good fit for your vision, your organization, and the job itself; to listen to them, challenge your limiting assumptions about them, and deal with them as individuals; to create clear agreements with them, provide balanced behavioral feedback, and delegate appropriately and well; to coach them to develop in areas where they have potential and interest.