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What happens when a company’s mission and its governance point in different directions?
If you say your company exists to build great products, care about quality, and serve customers, your governance should reinforce those commitments, not contradict them.
Mission isn’t just something you communicate. It has to be reflected in the way your company is structured.
Kaihan Krippendorff and I discuss why aligning purpose with governance is essential to building organizations that stay true to what they stand for.
#IncorruptibleBook #CorporateGovernance #MissionDriven #Leadership #BusinessStrategy #CompanyCulture #PurposeDriven
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Join us in San Francisco, September 29–October 1, and be part of the conversation.
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Liz McBeth, CEO & President of Armour Valve, on Incorruptible.
ALT Quote card: Liz McBeth, CEO & President of Armour Valve Ltd, on Incorruptible — 'I just finished reading Eric Ries' Incorruptible, and so much of this book will stay with me. I can't recommend it highly enough.'
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Why is it so hard to speak up, even when you know something is wrong?
Organizations are shaped by invisible forces that influence how people think, act, and make decisions. Like gravity, you may not notice those forces, but they’re always there.
The challenge for leaders is to build environments where people feel empowered to question ideas instead of simply conforming.
John R. Miles and I discuss on Passion Struck why understanding these hidden forces is essential to building healthier organizations.
#IncorruptibleBook #Leadership #CompanyCulture #OrganizationalCulture #BusinessStrategy
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Why do founders spend so much time defining their vision, but so little time designing the governance that protects it?
The legal structures already exist. Public benefit corporations, perpetual purpose trusts, and other governance models can help preserve a company’s mission.
If you don’t get governance right early, the long-term decisions about your company may eventually be made by someone else.
Daniel Kivatinos, Harshith Vaddiparthy, and I discuss why governance isn’t just legal paperwork. It’s one of the most important design decisions a founder can make.
#IncorruptibleBook #CorporateGovernance #Founders #Leadership #BusinessStrategy
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What if the real value isn’t in what AI produces, but in what it helps you learn?
The biggest gains come from using AI to strengthen your own judgment and capabilities, not to outsource your thinking.
Research on early users of AI coding tools suggests that while productivity can increase, people’s ability to evaluate the quality of their own work can decline if they rely on AI too heavily.
Kuba Filipowski and I discuss why the goal isn’t to let AI do the learning for us, but to use it to become better learners ourselves.
#IncorruptibleBook #ArtificialIntelligence #Leadership #Learning #Innovation
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we need a new term for this. vibe org?
I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
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What happens when optimizing a metric starts undermining what made your company successful?
Groupon built its business around one great email a day. Then it tested sending more. Revenue went up, but over time customers lost trust and churned.
Short-term gains can be addictive, but they often come at the expense of long-term value.
Vlada Bortnik and I discuss why protecting customer trust sometimes means saying no to metrics that look good today.
#IncorruptibleBook #Groupon #Leadership #CustomerTrust #BusinessStrategy
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Eric Ries retweeted
Enjoyed reading Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great - From the Bestselling Author of The Lean Startup by @ericries.
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Dave Kellogg, on Incorruptible.
ALT Quote card: Dave Kellogg on Incorruptible by Eric Ries — 'good intentions and mission statements are insufficient. If the mission matters, protect it through governance, incentives, metrics, and ownership structures. Do it early.'
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Lizzie Wilson, a partner at Mishcon de Reya, on Incorruptible.
ALT Quote card: Lizzie Wilson, partner at Mishcon de Reya, on Incorruptible by Eric Ries — 'A brilliant book with powerful lessons for leaders looking to build organisations that stay true to their purpose while adapting and growing.'
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What if you treated your ideas like a startup?
Long before The Lean Startup was published, I was already testing and iterating on the ideas behind it.
For my early talks, I created a customer advisory board, invited people over, walked them through my slides, and asked them to tear everything apart. I brought that same mindset to my blog, social media, and eventually the book itself.
Alex Strathdee and I discuss on Before the Bestseller why creating something great means being willing to test, learn, and iterate along the way.
#IncorruptibleBook #LeanStartup #Entrepreneurship #Writing #Innovation #BuildMeasureLearn #BeforeTheBestseller
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update
less than a week in, cfo.ai is growing faster than runway has ever grown in any month in our entire history
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1. here's your obligatory launch video
2. you can now just sign up and try cfo.ai instantly. for free. no waitlist.
3. tag @arithecfo with your most unhinged financial modeling requests. she's back on duty and feeling spicy.
(and so is @gerithecfo but people won't stop asking him about his memecoin 🤷)
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James Boyle, director of corporate sustainability at SR Inc., on Incorruptible.
howisincorruptiblegoing.com/…
ALT Quote card: James Boyle, director of corporate sustainability at SR Inc., on Incorruptible by Eric Ries — 'offers exactly that: a fully developed process and system of recommendations for building greater than financial purpose permanently into a company's charter.'
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What does it look like when a company truly puts its customers first?
During a severe Texas ice storm, an H-E-B store lost power. The registers stopped working, and customers were there trying to stock up on essentials for their families.
Instead of turning them away, the store told everyone to take their groceries and go home. No payment required.
John Miles and I discuss on Passion Struck how moments like this reveal what a company really stands for and turn trust from an idea into something people can feel.
#IncorruptibleBook #HEB #Trust #Leadership #CustomerFirst #CompanyCulture #BusinessStrategy
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Eric Ries retweeted
Great discussion. Startups that prioritize sustainable growth over short-term revenue spikes are the ones that endure. Trust compounds, churn does too. #LongTermThinking
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