I’ve been lucky to spend the last few years working with people who want to find a better way of building products and companies they can be proud of.
It’s been quite a school yard with hundreds of meetings, workshops, lunches and late night debates.
This manifesto is the result. You can DOWNLOAD IT HERE as a Free PDF.
I’ve tried to sum up how you can use clarity and cohesion to build teams, companies, products and services, and how to get everybody working together for a common cause.
It’s for anyone with the ambition to skip to market. That is, it’s for leaders and managers in start-ups, established companies, charities, not-for-profits and anyone else interested in bringing out the talent, energy and enthusiasm of their people so that together they can do something extraordinary.
A few things you’ll get out of reading it:
- Why customers love some products and some companies
- Where companies go wrong and what to do about it
- A common cause of success or failure of a company
- What organisations actually look like
- The wavelengths-of-change that affect how companies evolve
- A framework for working beneath the surface of your business
Whether you like it and find it helpful or hate it with a passion, please let me know. You can add comments below, send me an email, Tweet me @sn1ck or just put a message in a bottle and hope for the best.
If you do find it useful though, please spread the word in every way you can think of.
DOWNLOAD THE MANIFESTO HERE and don’t forget to skip.
Mark at Cayder on July 18, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Well worth the wait Nick. It’s scary to see the hours of work and help you gave us turned into words that jump off the page with such clarity and cohesion of their own.
Nick on July 19, 2010 at 6:19 am
Mark, Skip to Market sure has been a long time coming so thanks for all your encouragement.
Chris Schultz on July 21, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Nick – I really enjoyed Skip to Market, it’s a great modern framework for building a winning organization. Clear and concise, this is something that got me thinking in new ways about my businesses and I am definitely going to share throughout our organization. Nice work.
Nick on July 21, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Hi Chris. I’m so glad you like it, and I’m honoured by your “modern framework” comment. Thank you.