Disruptive Innovators Network — Eric in conversation with Ezechi Britton MBE at Salesforce Tower on Incorruptible

“Organisations rarely abandon their purpose in one dramatic moment. They are teased away gradually, by incentives, governance structures and what he calls #FinancialGravity. "Investors won't like this." "The board will expect that." "This is what good governance looks like." And slowly, by stealth, the means become the mission.”

“I've been thinking about a deceptively simple question since Friday. Who is a company actually for? … We've built so much of corporate life around creating shareholder value that sometimes reporting on value starts consuming the time we could be spending creating it. QBRs. Board packs. Forecasts. Endless PowerPoint. Managing the quarter rather than building for the long term.”

“My book The Lean Startup gave a generation of founders the tools to build quickly, to scale, and to create massive value. But I failed to anticipate what came next. I taught people how to build something worth protecting — but not how to protect it.”

“So what delight it was, when I heard Eric Ries would be in #London, on tour for his new book #Incorruptible. Last Thursday evening was phenomenal, the retention of the audience was 95%+ the conversation was rich, and the premise was solid. Just like the Lean Startup Book, Incorruptible is a must read for anyone building. In retrospect, I could also identify in my journey how Success can make you a target. Financial gravity is a real phenomenon. How you navigate such moments of pull depends largely on the ideas and practices the book suggests based on historical evidence and stories from mentioned organizations like Cloudflare and Whole Foods.”