About this episode

Eric Ries discusses the hidden forces that corrupt mission-driven organizations and how to build incorruptible ones.

What if the best practices taught in every business school are quietly destroying the organisations that follow them? Eric Ries — author of Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange — joins Aidan McCullen to expose the hidden forces that corrupt mission-driven organisations, and to reveal the structural defences that keep outliers like Costco immune. About Eric Ries Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and the bestselling author of The Lean Startup. His new book, Incorruptible, maps the structural forces that destroy company missions and lays out a blueprint for building organisations that resist them. He is also the founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE). About Aidan McCullen Aidan McCullen is a Thinkers50-recognised host, keynote speaker, author of Undisruptable, and former professional athlete. He is the founder and host of The Innovation Show — the podcast where square pegs find their place in a world of round holes. In this conversation, Eric reveals: Why mission drift and bureaucracy are really corruption — and why naming them that changes everything How financial gravity silently pulls every…

People in this episode

Host: Aidan McCullen

Guest: Eric Ries

Topics covered

• business ethics
• organizational integrity
• mission-driven organizations
• bureaucracy
• financial gravity
• company culture

Keywords

• incorruptible organization
• mission drift
• bureaucracy
• financial gravity
• Long-Term Stock Exchange
• business practices
• company culture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Long-Term Stock Exchange

Books & works: Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great, The Lean Startup, Undisruptable

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