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Publisher's summary
After the publication of his New York Times best-selling book, The Lean Startup, entrepreneur and author Eric Ries traveled the world helping companies of every size adopt the Lean Startup approach in order to become more nimble and experimental no matter what their mission. The Leader’s Guide collects and distills the practical, results-oriented advice Ries has dispensed to entrepreneurs, executives, and leaders at early-stage startups, blue chip corporations, and massive federal government agencies.
The Leader’s Guide is for both those who are new to Lean Startup as well as those who love the methodology in principle, but want to know more about how to put it into practice. Packed with real-world examples, the book sheds light on how innovators are tackling questions like:
- How can I convince my team that testing our early ideas with customers doesn’t mean we should sacrifice quality or forget about our vision?
- How can I convince senior leadership that innovation projects require a different system of accounting?
- How can we turn functional specialists in areas like IT, HR, and finance into allies when it comes to supporting new ideas?
Each chapter focuses on an essential principle of Lean Startup strategy and includes an interview with leaders who have been using the method effectively, like Dustin Moskovitz, CEO and founder of Asana, and Chris Boeckerman, Director of Innovation at Procter & Gamble.
Whether you’ve just discovered The Lean Startup, are a practitioner who wants to dive deeper, or work at a company trying to incorporate it at scale, The Leader’s Guide is the ultimate master class in successfully implementing Lean Startup methodology at your organization.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
Editorial Review
Move fast and listen to good leadership advice Through his books The Startup Way and The Lean Startup, Eric Ries has achieved leadership-guru status among those hoping to emulate the success of companies born and bred in and around Silicon Valley—both literally and zeitgeistily. (If you’ve seen a lot of email signatures with variations on the word "entrepreneur" in them, you probably have him to thank.) Buzzwords aside, getting managers to embrace the "move fast and break things" mentality espoused by a certain Northern Californian breed of employee isn’t always easy. That’s why Ries’s Leader's Guide, with its prescriptive advice on how to implement these iconoclastic philosophies, is bound to be a must-listen for the new-era workplace. —Courtney R., Audible Editor

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Move fast and listen to good leadership advice
"Through his titles The Startup Way and The Lean Startup, Eric Ries has achieved leadership-guru status among those hoping to emulate the success of companies born and bred in and around Silicon Valley—both literally and zeitgeistily. (If you’ve seen a lot of email signatures with variations on the word ‘entrepreneur’ in them, you probably have him to thank.) Buzzwords aside, getting managers to embrace the ‘move fast and break things’ mentality espoused by a certain Northern Californian breed of employee isn’t always easy. That’s why Ries’s Leader's Guide, with its prescriptive advice on how to implement these iconoclastic philosophies, is bound to be a must-listen for the new-era workplace."
—Courtney R., Audible Editor
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- verapatc
- 05-24-19
A very good one. But where is the companion PDF?
The author is excellent.
But he mentioned about the PDF companion.
I cannot find it on Audible.
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- FG
- 05-06-19
Valuable insights and practical advice for leaders in any size company
I was incredibly impressed with the quality of this audio book. I’m always a little wary when an author decides to narrate their own book - even if the content is great, poor narration will ruins any audio book.
Fortunately, Eric Ries delivered an impeccable narration performance, with excellent pacing, good valence shifts, and even different voices when quoting other people. He also includes several fascinating interviews with business leaders, and it made for great listening.
Regarding the content itself, I wasn’t sure how relevant it would be to me. In my day job, I’m basically a middle-manager, and I run a small business doing consulting work on the side. It turns out this whole book was perfect for me - great tools, clearly articulated principles, and useful actions I can take to move forward both in a bigger company and with my own work.
I think this book is incredibly useful for anyone interested in business, lean start up, and how to bring about positive change at any level of the organization.
Highly recommended!
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- Gregory
- 05-30-19
Boring and vague
I was a big fan of the Lean Startup, and this was a huge disappointment. It was vague, repetitive, and not actionable. Narration was okay
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- Brian A. Shenk
- 09-08-19
One of a Kind
This audiobook is unique in a great way because of the inclusion of an interview after each chapter. Those along make it worth getting, but it also works as a fantastic follow up to The Lean Startup, going into more depth on ways to implement the ideas.
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- Brad May
- 07-25-19
Lots of details. Moves too slowly.
I couldn’t finish this one. It moves too slowly.
There are other options that I’m sure are better.
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- Thomas J. Tinics
- 06-29-19
struggled to finish it
not what leadership is in my opinion. offering opertunity to others is not leading. its filling a position.
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- AndersR
- 06-09-19
Eric Ries delivers a great book.
The book contains great value for people looking for better ways to deliver happiness/value to customers.
You will enjoy this book. I do recommend it.
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- Scott
- 12-06-21
Read 'The Lean Startup' and skip this re-hash
This book did not live up to its description. For me, this was not a 'leader's guide' - it repeated the information in Eric Ries' very good book 'The Lean Startup' and added some interviews from mgrs who successfully employed those techniques. The problem is that the interviews were very shallow. The idea behind this book was fine, but the execution fell very short - it is not a 'Leader's Guide'. Save your time and money - read 'The Lean Startup' and skip 'The Leader's Guide'.
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- Mauro Locarnini
- 06-09-21
Worth reading (even more if you haven’t read the lean startup yet)
There is not much new in this book if you have read the lean startup. The same concepts are discussed at a much higher level with little detail but extensive examples and practical use of the concepts.
If you are doubting whether you should read the lean startup or not, then start here and you will certainly be hungering for more and be reto take the full learning from the original book.
However if you have already started your lean start up journey this book could be a good source to keep your motivation in hard moments. Review the basics concepts and pepper your learning with new examples and practical ideas.
At the end of the book you get a bonus on change management which reads to me as the intro of the next book.
In all cases you won’t waste your time reading it. Be mindful of what YIU can expect.
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- Ben
- 01-08-20
Another repackaging
if you've read one Lean Startup book, you've read them all #IMHO. The ideas and presentation are fine. There's just not much that's new about it. Same ideas, different context Then again, I suppose that's also the nature of innovation in a way isn't it?
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- Salimide
- 03-08-22
Big Companies' life insurance
I read the Lean Startup quite a while ago and loved it.
This book is taking the lean startup into big companies, dealing with company culture, metrics which only measure success not celebrate failure and learning.
I especially liked the comparison of the little innovative group in big companies to a life insurance from one of Eric's guests. Big companies can be like dinosaurs and hard to change. If you create small teams, encourage people to speak up, you can try to ensure the company won't go under as times change.
I am so happy that even big companies are starting to change.
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- Kindle Customer
- 05-19-19
Lean Startup pt2
Another invaluable lesson from Eric Reis. He really understands how you need to create and support innovate growth teams. This audio book has more great case studies and examples. If anyone in your business says you need to innovate, then refer them to his books first.
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- Windy3s
- 12-06-22
A bit lost
I the ideas were good but I really did not feel anything that motivated me.
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- Tobias Litherland
- 10-22-21
Fantastic book. Truly career changing.
Eric Reis lifts the thought from a LEAN Startup up to a managerial level, summed up in inspiring discussions with industry veterans at the end of each chapter.
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- Jennifers Daddy
- 09-20-19
Good, but not as good as his other work
I really liked Eric Ries other audio books, I learned so much. This didn't have the same engagement or energy, but it had intervioews with people which was really good. Worth a listen.
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- Richard Roberts
- 09-15-19
Helps reinforce the lean startup
really enjoyed listening to this book especially the podcast like sections bringing real life examples into the story.
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- W. Webster
- 06-23-19
Great title for any business leader
Loved Eric's narration. The book was packed fullnof useful insights. Lean startup distilled. highly recommended.
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In need of a second edition
- By Ehud Shavit on 12-28-17
By: Eric Ries
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The Lean Startup
- How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- By: Eric Ries
- Narrated by: Eric Ries
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
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Informative, mature but not original or essential
- By Jason Comely on 02-19-13
By: Eric Ries
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Take the Long View
- By: Eric Ries
- Narrated by: Eric Ries
- Length: 48 mins
- Original Recording
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Performance
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Story
It’s a bracing reality of 21st-century business: Most start-ups fail. What matters is how companies respond to failure - and how they break bad habits to foster innovation. In this invigorating conversation, you’ll hear how entrepreneur and author Eric Ries learned the hard way that it’s not enough to have a great idea. Successful businesses must continually test and refine products, leveraging feedback from real customers to make incremental improvements.
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The title is fitting
- By Shey Reads on 02-21-22
By: Eric Ries
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The Startup Owner's Manual
- The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
- By: Steve Blank, Bob Dorf
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on this book for detailed, step-by-step instructions on building successful, scalable, profitable startups. The National Science Foundation pays hundreds of startup teams each year to follow the process outlined in the book, and it's taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and more than 100 other leading universities worldwide. Why? The Startup Owner's Manual guides you, step-by-step, as you put the Customer Development process to work.
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Nothing to learn from this book
- By Thomas D. Kehoe on 02-23-22
By: Steve Blank, and others
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Build
- An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
- By: Tony Fadell
- Narrated by: Tony Fadell, Roger Wayne
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone, and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in 30+ years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure, and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia. So that’s what this book is. An advice encyclopedia. A mentor in a box. Build is full of personal stories, practical advice and fascinating insights into some of the most impactful products and people of the 20th century.
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Best guide for start up founders, ever!!!
- By Curly Beard on 05-28-22
By: Tony Fadell
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Blitzscaling
- The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
- By: Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh, Bill Gates - foreword
- Narrated by: Chris Yeh, Reid Hoffman
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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What entrepreneur or founder doesn't aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the start-ups that get disrupted and disappear from the ones who grow to become global giants? The secret is blitzscaling: a set of techniques for scaling up at a dizzying pace that blows competitors out of the water.
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not much here.
- By Francis Shanahan on 09-05-19
By: Reid Hoffman, and others
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The Startup Way
- How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth
- By: Eric Ries
- Narrated by: Eric Ries
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Entrepreneur and best-selling author of The Lean Startup Eric Ries reveals how entrepreneurial principles can be used by businesses ranging from established companies to early stage startups to grow revenues, drive innovation, and emerge as truly modern organizations poised to take advantage of the enormous opportunities of the 21st century.
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In need of a second edition
- By Ehud Shavit on 12-28-17
By: Eric Ries
-
The Lean Startup
- How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- By: Eric Ries
- Narrated by: Eric Ries
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
-
-
Informative, mature but not original or essential
- By Jason Comely on 02-19-13
By: Eric Ries
-
Take the Long View
- By: Eric Ries
- Narrated by: Eric Ries
- Length: 48 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It’s a bracing reality of 21st-century business: Most start-ups fail. What matters is how companies respond to failure - and how they break bad habits to foster innovation. In this invigorating conversation, you’ll hear how entrepreneur and author Eric Ries learned the hard way that it’s not enough to have a great idea. Successful businesses must continually test and refine products, leveraging feedback from real customers to make incremental improvements.
-
-
The title is fitting
- By Shey Reads on 02-21-22
By: Eric Ries
-
The Startup Owner's Manual
- The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
- By: Steve Blank, Bob Dorf
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on this book for detailed, step-by-step instructions on building successful, scalable, profitable startups. The National Science Foundation pays hundreds of startup teams each year to follow the process outlined in the book, and it's taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and more than 100 other leading universities worldwide. Why? The Startup Owner's Manual guides you, step-by-step, as you put the Customer Development process to work.
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Nothing to learn from this book
- By Thomas D. Kehoe on 02-23-22
By: Steve Blank, and others
-
Build
- An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
- By: Tony Fadell
- Narrated by: Tony Fadell, Roger Wayne
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone, and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in 30+ years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure, and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia. So that’s what this book is. An advice encyclopedia. A mentor in a box. Build is full of personal stories, practical advice and fascinating insights into some of the most impactful products and people of the 20th century.
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Best guide for start up founders, ever!!!
- By Curly Beard on 05-28-22
By: Tony Fadell
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Blitzscaling
- The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
- By: Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh, Bill Gates - foreword
- Narrated by: Chris Yeh, Reid H