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    Simple excellenceAdam Zak

    Simple excellence

    Adam Zak · 2011

    Business & Management
    Open LibraryAmazon
    Stats for nerds
    2recommend
    2mentions
    2people
    2020–2023years
    100% recommend

    Mentions per year

    2020202120222023

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    1. splittingTimesJan 2023
      I would add "simple excellence" [1] to the already recommend "personal MBA".

      Trying to map your companies products first on a "value proposition canvas" and then whole business on a "business model canvas" is a great way to better understand on a high level whats going on in your organization.

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      [1] https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Excellence-Organizing-Manageme...

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    2. wpietriDec 2020
      For the background and how things go wrong, you might enjoy the book "Confronting Managerialism" by Spender and Locke. The Lean folks also have a lot of good critiques. A book that sticks in my mind is "Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation", but there are a bunch. And for software specifically, Mary Poppendieck's work is great, as well as Reinertsen's "Principles of Product Development Flow".
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