This article was originally published on the Lean Startup Co. blog By Lean Startup Co. Education Program You’ve read Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup and have become a true believer, i.e. the path to transforming your company and developing an effective culture of innovation involves empowering small teams to create new products and services using the Lean Startup Methodology. Armed with stories of how internal startup teams have delivered value for companies like General Electric, Intuit, Amazon, and Airbnb, you’ve taken on the challenge of convincing your colleagues that this should be your new way of working. But much to your dismay, you get strong pushback: “This methodology will never work here!” “We can’t afford to have employees play around!” “Doing what you propose will put critical projects at risk!” “Our GM won’t let us do [...]