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Book Review: The Four Steps to the Epiphany

by Pete Abilla on August 16, 2010

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Steve Blank, the author of “The Four Steps to the Epiphany”, explains how to effectively bring a product to market. In doing so, he applies many principles of Lean Thinking, sparking a very popular movement in the entrepreneurship and the startup world: The [...]

Book Review: Clinical 5S for Healthcare

by Pete Abilla on August 14, 2010

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Akio Takahara is the leading lean practitioner and expert on the 5S support system in Healthcare. In his book, he claims that 5S in Healthcare will do the following: Reduce human errors Prevent patient accidents Eliminate the waste of searching Better utilize available [...]

Book Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

by Pete Abilla on April 30, 2007

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn I just finished reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.  It took me just a few hours and it was really enjoyable reading.  The book presents leadership in teams in the form of a self-reflective story that is engaging, educational, and in ways [...]

Book Review: The Inmates are Running the Asylum

by Pete Abilla on January 6, 2007

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn My earlier post titled, Good Complexity, Bad Complexity, I discuss a few case studies where produce and process complexity can be good, and where it can be bad. One of the areas in which a balance needs to be had between a rich [...]

Book Review: Venture Capital and Private Equity

by Pete Abilla on November 25, 2006

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn I just finished two books on Venture Capital and Private Equity. The first one is Buyout: The Insider’s Guide to Buying Your Own Company and the second one is Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook. So, Buyout: The Insider’s Guide to Buying [...]

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