#168 — Why Good Companies Go Bad: Eric Ries

#168 — Why Good Companies Go Bad: Eric Ries

From Outthinkers by Outthinker

June 2, 2026 · 40 min

About this episode

Eric Ries discusses his new book 'Incorruptible' and the underlying issues in how companies have been run over the past fifty years.

New on the Outthinkers Podcast, supported by LHH, host Kaihan Krippendorff speaks with Eric Ries — author of the landmark The Lean Startup — about his new book Incorruptible, and why the way we've run companies for the last fifty years may be fundamentally corrupt. Not in the dramatic, headline-grabbing sense, but in the older, quieter sense of the word: a slow corrosion of the bonds that make an organisation strong, trusted, and worth building in the first place. In this conversation...

People in this episode

Host: Kaihan Krippendorff

Guest: Eric Ries

Topics covered

  • business ethics
  • organizational trust
  • company management
  • leadership
  • corruption in business

Keywords

  • business
  • management
  • leadership
  • corruption
  • trust
  • organizational strength
  • The Lean Startup

Sponsors

LHH

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Lean Startup, Incorruptible

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