Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great Companies Stay Great

In Incorruptible, Eric Ries, creator of The Lean Startup, examines why companies founded with strong ideals so often drift toward short-term thinking, extractive behavior and abandonment of their missions, even when the people inside them mean well. The failure, Ries argues, is structural rather than chiefly ethical. As organizations grow, ownership, incentives, charters, accountability and decision-making reshape behavior, and Ries shows how companies can be designed to stay true to their purpose.

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Seth Godin: “Eric Ries has a new book, Incorruptible. It’s based on the clear truth that our economic system is filled with incentives that cause well-meaning people (especially bosses) to make short-term, selfish and toxic decisions.”