Has Your Branding Changed?

Laura Busche ‘s book is based on the Lean StartupTM  principles and is titled; Lean Branding (Lean (O’Reilly)). It is part of the Lean Startup series of books by O’Reilly. I found her perception of marketing very aligned with mine and at the very start of the podcast asked her to differentiate her way of Read More …

The Importance of Selling in a Startup

The new way of thinking about innovation is not limited to a great product/service idea says Blake Masters, co-author of Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Related Podcast and Transcription: A Path For Future Innovation An excerpt from the podcast: Joe: One of the things I really liked about Read More …

Applying Reflection to the Lean Sales Process

I have always thought Hansei or Reflection was a key part of Lean thinking. I talk about it as part of introducing CAP-Do in the video below. Slides of the above Presentation    If you have not purchased CAP- Do, it is available for download as a PDF. P.S. Peter Senge calls this process Presencing Read More …

The Virtual Individual

Dana Sednek Bowler specializes in eLearning, virtual meetings/collaboration, project management, analytics tools & strategies, and leadership facilitation. She puts these skills to work at Interaction Associates as the online learning manager. Related Podcast and Transcription: Working Online An excerpt from the podcast: Joe:     Take the person who works online, all the time. Let’s say, out Read More …

How Well are You Connecting?

In Kanban, we talk about how important it is to manage our work in process. In fact Jim Benson’s latest book is on that topic, Why Limit WIP: We are Drowning in Work (MemeMachine Series) (Volume 2). I have always thought that it was just as important for Sales People to manage their Work in Read More …

How Important Are Your Role Players

David Veech is the founding member of the Institute for Lean Systems and serves as its Executive Director. In this Podcast/Transcription: The Fun Side of Standard Work, I asked him about role players. Joe: So you are saying that when you are building the team, you really do have to identify maybe even the roles Read More …