How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author
Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, returns with Incorruptible, a book about how successful companies often lose their mission and values due to structural and cultural forces, and how founders can protect what they’ve built through principled governance and organizational design.
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