Lean Startup, to Lean Company, to Rich Exit [Audiobook]

Empowering every team member to practice "situational leadership"
Leveraging a lean team with "splitsuit" systems architecture development
Recruiting and retaining the nation's finest talent by hiring based on aptitude > attitude > willingness > experience (in order of importance)
Turning performance reviews into company improvement exercises
Improving on traditional profit-sharing formulas with a "gain sharing" formula
Finding a way to reject outside funding and retain full ownership
Replacing notions of customer satisfaction with "customer success"
Finding the work/life balance that maximizes team productivity
Bridging disconnects between sales & production, end-users & IT, management, and R&D
Leaping the chasm from a service-based to a product company
Combining judicious simplification with ambiguity tolerance to master complex situations
Flattening internal communications so anyone can access anyone else
Making "smart interruptibility" an accepted practice at every level of the company
Developing the "bins, balls, and backplane" framework of modern user interfaces
Rejecting the "Big IP Lie" and writing "peace contracts" to drive rich-exit potential
After just 17 years, Kenan's company, Kenan Systems, was acquired by Lucent Technologies and he remained the sole shareholder. Importantly to him, all of his 750+ employees also benefitted from the exit. This is the inside look at how it happened. This is a field-tested framework for building a lean startup into a lean company and then a rich exit―the perfect model for any aspiring entrepreneur.
Since Kenan also pioneered large scale commercial AI and big data systems, the framework and principles of innovation he developed are even more relevant in today's marketplace.