"the job of a manager is to be willing to have a hard conversation, anytime during the week with anyone anywhere.” -- Marc Hedlund

Another great presentation from inside Etsy about managing a devops flavoured operations team in a rapidly growing company. Lots of tips on people, processes, hiring and management in general. Some good insider details too about using Kanban successfully and using metrics (Etsy now have more than 280,000 individual metrics!) to make decisions.

RT @PhilipvanLonden: #Lean Voorbeeld Sociale Innovatie Ziekenhuis 'Elektronische overdracht zorgt voor grote tijdwinst'

Lean book recommended by Eric Ries Wired article.

Blog with lean games

Excellent forum thread with loads of lean games & feedback.

February 5, 2007 | Fortune | Nina Easton.

Has anyone revitalized or created a bright spot in a flat or declining industry?
At the Tempe conference, Gingrich politely listens to such proposals as applying Toyota-style production-control techniques to the health system - and then slices through them with an alternative mantra of competition, deregulation, modernized information systems, and personal responsibility. ...In other words, in Gingrich's world consumer health care should look more like Travelocity...Instead, the Center for Health Transformation offers policy ideas to companies that want to get health-care costs off their backs but oppose government-imposed, universal-health-insurance plans as costly and burdensome. The center's roster of 75 clients is impressive, including insurers Blue Cross & Blue Shield and GE Healthcare, providers like the American Hospital Association, and employers like GM (Charts) and Ford (Charts). Clients pay fees ranging from $10,000 to $200,000 a year....Gingrich's own epiphany about a presidential run dates back three years, when he picked up Harold Holzer's "Lincoln at Cooper Union." The book tells the story of how Lincoln's lengthy 1860 speech in New York City - an intellectually rigorous rebuttal of slavery's legal grounding - wowed the Eastern establishment and transformed a gawky, badly dressed Western politician into a leading presidential candidate. Gingrich saw himself in this story of the underestimated outsider making good, despite the seeming hubris of comparing himself to Lincoln, and it now underpins his unorthodox quest for the presidency...Gingrich also says things like "If you want to shape history, it's useful to actually know history" without a hint of self-consciousness...Of the other Republican contenders for President he says, "We're not in the same business. They are running for the White House. I am trying to change the country."..."My planning horizons are 17 years. I want to give you a sense of scale," he explains, as if helping me focus on his long view of things. "I also do what I think the country needs. I don't operate under personal ambition." ...."There are 3,300 counties, 17,000 elected school boards, 60,000 cities and towns, 14,000 state legislators, 50 governors, and 535 elected federal legislators," he says.

Another great post about applying Lean Startup to a physical product: "When in doubt, prototype."

Fun case study of Lean Startup approach applied to hardware -- "Children are perfect test subjects."

"Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Notes Essay" COLLECTION OF ESSAYS FROM THIEL'S CS183: STARTUP AT STANFORD VIA RIP EMERSON ON TECHCRUNCH