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Build a Culture That Outsmarts Perfectionism By changing three things about how you lead your team Seppo Helava Co-Founder, Wonderspark @seppohelava

Build a Culture that Outsmarts Perfectionism by Seppo Helava - The Lean Startup Conference 12/10/14

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The build-measure-learn loop is often accompanied by the frustration-confusion-failure cycle. In other words, implementing Lean Startup methods is hard--particularly when your experiments invalidate a lot of your ideas. In this talk, Seppo Helava, founder at Nonsense Industry, teaches us how he's led his team to overcome perfectionism and become more comfortable with grey areas and failure.

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Build a Culture That Outsmarts PerfectionismBy changing three things about how you lead your team

Seppo Helava

Co-Founder, Wonderspark

@seppohelava

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The Team

Build

Me

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The Team

Build

Me

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Provide

Extreme

Focus

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Distribute

Authority

Manager

Individual IndividualIndividual

What

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Project Weeks

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The Team

Build

Me

Scope Work Correctly

Team Owns Decisions

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Be NiceThe cost of iterating quickly is failure. Pay it gladly.

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15x improvement on D1 Retention

10x improvement on daily per-user monetization

The most energized, passionate team

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Provide Extreme Focus

Distribute Authority

Be Nice

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