I doubt he remembers it, but Eric Ries and I ate breakfast together way back in 2010. Over eggs at a cafe in Wellington, New Zealand, we had a great discussion about prototyping back before prototyping and testing your ideas was so obvious in the tech startup world.
These were very different times. I was the director of design at a social media pioneer called Digg and he was in the midst of writing a book called The Lean Startup, which would go on to be a bestseller and influence startup founders for a generation who would copy his style of rapid prototype testing that we all now take for granted. Whether he intended it or not, The Lean Startup was embraced by the move-fast-and-break-things entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley.
I honestly hadn’t tracked Eric’s work closely for the last 10 years, so it came as a bit of a shock to pick up his new book Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great. This isn’t a book about how to move fast and break things.
Don’t let your eyes glaze over, but this is a book about setting your mission higher and then it’s about gasp corporate governance. I think it’s an excellent book that every entrepreneur or leader should read.
Recently on our job board
We added about 120 new jobs to the job board in the last week. These are the best:
Product design
Senior Product Designer at Beam in London, UK
Deputy Dir. Product Design at Government Digital Service in London, UK
Senior Product Designer at Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil
UX design
Digital UX Designer at British Heart Foundation in London, UK
Junior Interaction Designer at Government Digital Service in Manchester, UK
UX Designer at Provincial Health Services Authority in Burnaby, Canada
Senior UX Designer at Wikimedia Foundation (Global)
Service design
Service Designer at ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) in Australia
Designer at Care City in Barking, UK
Senior Service Designer at Justice Digital in UK
Graphic design
Digital Design Specialist at Autism Ontario in Toronto, Canada
Communication Design Intern at Council on Energy, Environment and Water in New Delhi, India
Design and Digital Communications Advisor at Emergency Management Victoria in Melbourne, Australia
Graphic Designer at Liga Solidária in São Paulo, Brazil
Marketing & Visual Communications Designer at NHS 24 in Aberdeen, UK
Senior Illustrator at Noora Health in Bangalore, India
Graphic Designer at Rice University in Houston, USA
Senior Graphic Designer at Stanford University in USA
Social Media & Graphic Design Specialist at State of Colorado – Governor’s Office of IT in Denver, USA
Creative Services Lead at Stroke Association in UK
Senior Art Director, Health System at UCLA Health in Los Angeles, USA
User research
Senior User Researcher at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in UK
Associate Designer at International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Abuja, Nigeria
Copywriting
Technical Copy Editor at BEACON (Biothreats Emergence, Analysis and Communications Network) in n/a
Creative Writer at UNICEF Canada in Toronto, Canada
Product management
Senior Product Manager at Beam in London, UK
VP of Product at Beam in London, UK
Product Lead at Beam in London, UK
Digital Product Lead at Bureau of Meteorology in Australia
Product Manager, Tech & AI at Council on Energy, Environment and Water in New Delhi, India
Senior Product Manager at Department for Education in Coventry, UK
Director, Product Dev and Management at Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in USA
Senior Product Manager at Recidiviz in USA
Product Manager at The Chancery Lane Project in UK
Product Manager at TRAILS in USA
