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Bernhard Schroeder: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 30, 2015

Bernhard Schroeder is the Director, Lavin Entrepreneurship Center Programs and oversees all of the undergraduate and graduate experiential entrepreneurship programs on the San Diego State University campus. He also has responsibility for the Center’s marketing and outreach on both the…

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Bernhard Schroeder: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 22, 2015

Bernhard Schroeder is the Director, Lavin Entrepreneurship Center Programs and oversees all of the undergraduate and graduate experiential entrepreneurship programs on the San Diego State University campus. He also has responsibility for the Center’s marketing and outreach on both the…

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Greg McKeown: An interview by Bob Morris

March 6, 2015

Greg McKeown is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. His writing has appeared or been covered by Fast Company, Fortune, HuffPost, Politico,Inc. Magazine and Harvard Business Review. He has also been interviewed…

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The LeanModel Framework for Start-Up Companies or Start-Up Projects

February 16, 2015

In Fail Fast or Win Big: The Start-Up Plan for Starting Now, Bernhard Schroeder introduces what he characterizes as the Lean Model Framework. As he explains, “”instead of spending months writing a business plan and then looking for investors, who…

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Design to Grow: A book review by Bob Morris

February 11, 2015

Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility (and How You Can Too) David Butler and Linda Tischler Simon & Schuster (2015) How the design by purpose process can create value while driving both scale and agility…

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How to embrace a new way of thinking about creating and launching a new company or project

February 4, 2015

In Fail Fast or Win Big: The Start-Up Plan for Starting Now, Bernhard Schroeder introduces what he characterizes as the Lean Model Framework. As he explains, “instead of spending months writing a business plan and then looking for investors, who…

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Marty Neumeier on “The Four Stages of the Buy-In Curve”

December 12, 2014

Here’s the latest communiqué from Marty Neumeier in which he shares his thoughts about the process by which to obtain buy-in from those who are initially opposed or indifferent to the given proposition. * * * Imagine being shown a…

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Well-Designed: A book review by Bob Morris

November 16, 2014

Well-Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love Jon Kolko Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to focus on people, celebrate emotional value, and drive optimism through lateral and divergent thinking I share Jon Kolko’s high regard for…

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The Innovator’s Hypothesis: A book review by Bob Morris

November 10, 2014

The Innovator’s Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More than Good Ideas Michael Schrage The MIT Press (2014) How and why “simple, fast, cheap, smart, lean, and important experiments can supercharge any serious innovation process” As I began to read…

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