The Leader's Guide cover art

The Leader's Guide

Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

The Leader's Guide

By: Eric Ries
Narrated by: Eric Ries
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £21.99

Buy Now for £21.99

Only £0.99 a month for the first 3 months. Pay £0.99 for the first 3 months, and £8.99/month thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Start my membership

About this listen

After the publication of his New York Times best-selling book, The Lean Startup, entrepreneur and author Eric Ries traveled the world helping companies of every size adopt the Lean Startup approach in order to become more nimble and experimental no matter what their mission. The Leader’s Guide collects and distills the practical, results-oriented advice Ries has dispensed to entrepreneurs, executives, and leaders at early-stage startups, blue chip corporations, and massive federal government agencies.

The Leader’s Guide is for both those who are new to Lean Startup as well as those who love the methodology in principle, but want to know more about how to put it into practice. Packed with real-world examples, the book sheds light on how innovators are tackling questions like:

  • How can I convince my team that testing our early ideas with customers doesn’t mean we should sacrifice quality or forget about our vision?
  • How can I convince senior leadership that innovation projects require a different system of accounting?
  • How can we turn functional specialists in areas like IT, HR, and finance into allies when it comes to supporting new ideas?

Each chapter focuses on an essential principle of Lean Startup strategy and includes an interview with leaders who have been using the method effectively, like Dustin Moskovitz, CEO and founder of Asana, and Chris Boeckerman, Director of Innovation at Procter & Gamble.

Whether you’ve just discovered The Lean Startup, are a practitioner who wants to dive deeper, or work at a company trying to incorporate it at scale, The Leader’s Guide is the ultimate master class in successfully implementing Lean Startup methodology at your organization.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Eric Ries (P)2019 Audible Originals, LLC.
Leadership Management & Leadership

Listeners also enjoyed...

How to Persuade and Get Paid cover art
No Bullsh*t Leadership cover art
Naked Money cover art
Co-Active Coaching cover art
Winning Minds cover art
All Marketers Are Liars cover art
12 Months to $1 Million cover art
Storytelling with Data cover art
Superforecasting cover art
The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership cover art
Tribes cover art
Traction cover art
How to Be a Founder cover art
The Essential Chomsky cover art
The Great Delusion cover art
Lean Analytics cover art
All stars
Most relevant
Eric Reis lifts the thought from a LEAN Startup up to a managerial level, summed up in inspiring discussions with industry veterans at the end of each chapter.

Fantastic book. Truly career changing.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Another invaluable lesson from Eric Reis. He really understands how you need to create and support innovate growth teams. This audio book has more great case studies and examples. If anyone in your business says you need to innovate, then refer them to his books first.

Lean Startup pt2

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

really enjoyed listening to this book especially the podcast like sections bringing real life examples into the story.

Helps reinforce the lean startup

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I read the Lean Startup quite a while ago and loved it.
This book is taking the lean startup into big companies, dealing with company culture, metrics which only measure success not celebrate failure and learning.
I especially liked the comparison of the little innovative group in big companies to a life insurance from one of Eric's guests. Big companies can be like dinosaurs and hard to change. If you create small teams, encourage people to speak up, you can try to ensure the company won't go under as times change.
I am so happy that even big companies are starting to change.

Big Companies' life insurance

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I the ideas were good but I really did not feel anything that motivated me.

A bit lost

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

See more reviews