Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great Companies Stay Great is 📝Eric Ries' 2026 🏷️#book arguing that corporate drift from founding principles is a structural governance failure, not a moral one — and that it can be prevented by design.

Published by Authors Equity on May 26, 2026 (hardcover, 432 pages), it is the follow-up to 📝The Lean Startup from 📝Eric Ries. The book's central claim is that "success itself becomes a form of financial gravity," bending companies toward short-term thinking and away from the people and principles that made them worth building — a failure mode that arises predictably from how organizations are governed rather than from individual bad actors.

Drawing on two decades of work with founders, CEOs, investors, and institution builders, Ries reframes corporate governance not as bureaucracy or compliance but as a creative and strategic act, and lays out practical strategies for designing organizations that hold their integrity as they scale. The book was an instant New York Times bestseller.