Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 19, 2023

And, if we're Settling, right out of the gate we know we won't be striving to reach our communication potential in any way. Question: At what point or stage in a person's career is your book most helpful and why?

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 11, 2021

After all, hugely successful people, such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg famously didn’t finish college before building their hugely successful businesses. Tamo Junto are intervening at the very early stage of this process, and often need to forment the notion of oneself as an entrepreneur in the first place.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 29, 2019

Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. When you get enough of them together, you create a blue lobster organization – one that creates positive disruption. It is incumbent upon us, whether we’re a blue lobster or not, to find, nurture and develop blue lobsters. Blue Lobsters.

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

So, how would you prepare for a stage gate meeting that includes a "Go/No-Go" decision on continuing to develop a specific product? Just as crucial is the methodology- asking the right questions from the outset that are relevant to the gate decision. How Does This Change the New Product Development Process?

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 1, 2011

Once a band has lost its luster and has fallen from the top 3 or 4 in its category, the opportunity for a successful re-stage is limited. Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Recent Comments Alan Kay on Turnarounds and the Big Play John on Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Now I ask you.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Krames: While I was writing my book on Pope Francis, I asked over 200 people who they felt was the most effective leader on the world stage today. Guest post from Jeffrey A. I even gave many hints, such as "the person is living and doing well, does not live in the U.S., has little money, but makes news several times a week around the world."

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Once the product-development stage concludes, a fancy marketing campaign is used to glamorize the team’s hard work, labor, and perseverance, ready to compete against other products of the same league. Building a new product is a daunting task that requires the collaborative efforts of many people. Pick a date.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 1, 2011

Once a band has lost its luster and has fallen from the top 3 or 4 in its category, the opportunity for a successful re-stage is limited. Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Recent Comments Alan Kay on Turnarounds and the Big Play John on Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Now I ask you.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 9, 2011

He also knows that current Prostate Cancer treatments post a success rate of over 90% when caught in the early stages. Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Recent Comments Alan Kay on Turnarounds and the Big Play John on Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Search My Site. Search for: Categories.

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CO2

APRIL 8, 2013

Build a stage-gate process for ideas to be introduced and developed. Provide a forum for employees to propose, discuss, and vote on ideas (yours and theirs) before they’re implemented. The willingness to expose your ideas to so many people up front likely will help you filter out second-rate ideas.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2019

All of these factors can impact your new business’s bottom line, and you don’t want to enter into an unprofitable business from the start because you overlooked an important question or two in the preliminary stages. You want to ensure you’re coming out of the gate swinging in order for your new company to be a success.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 14, 2019

Bill Gates and Paul Allen shared a passion for computers and technology, and Microsoft is the result of their work. The initial stage in a workflow process for most businesses is some sort of consultation, request, or order from a customer. Optimize the Workflow of any Business with Software Implementation. Project Management Software.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

It’s only at this stage that today’s customers are prepared to listen. Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Recent Comments Alan Kay on Turnarounds and the Big Play John on Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Martin Birt on Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen?

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2015

Leadership in actively and effectively engaging with key stakeholders and sustaining their buy-in ensures the expected business outcomes are realized at each phase or stage gate of the organizational transformation.

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Leadership Stage-Gate Critical Success Factor Objective 120

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 27, 2020

Grieving has stages. But God has made promises for His church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. All those plans changed suddenly after only a few weeks on the job. That’s a loss.). We don’t grieve like the rest of the world, but we should grieve. Every loss deserves a grief period. And they are different for everyone.

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Tips Stage-Gate Crisis Definition 85

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It’s helpful to first understand the various stages involved in improving business processes. Synchronize siloed processes : Imagine if ATC activities were standard but siloed off from other aviation processes, such as airport gate management. We recommend doing this in stages, as opposed to a “big bang.”

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2014

Drucker, and placing one spot below Bill Gates. In this light, it becomes easier to appreciate that one outcome of the lessons we’ve learned up to this point is to help set the stage for the experiences and insights we need to learn next to help us become the leader those we serve need us to be.

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Leadership How To Stage-Gate Learning-by-Doing 278

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Bill Gates is the master of staying ahead of the pack in the business world. If your team becomes relied upon, you’re seen as the hardest working, producing the most value for the company, and therefore you’ll make a name for yourselves.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

As a leader, you are always on stage. How about that issue of stage presence? First, he encourages bosses to remember the toxic tandem – that your team is watching you very closely and that it’s really important that you be aware that they’re watching you. Maybe Mark Hurd forgot about that.  

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

You should be placing a strong emphasis on customer satisfaction no matter what stage your business is in, but it’s especially important to make sure you’re not getting distracted by scalability. Bill Gates had Buffet , and Mark Zuckerberg had Steve Jobs. Set yourself some medium-term goals, and stick to them!

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

In Bartz’s case, there is a queue of TPSE to work through before they stage gate the emerging ideas against strategy alignment. Strategy alignment is an many-to-many proposition in a company that has been around for a long time. They will probably work both ends towards the middle.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Author Steven Pressfield, the creative genius behind the book (and later movie) entitled, The Legend of Baggar Vance , as well as the beautifully written historical fiction book entitled The Gates of Fire (about the famed battle of Thermopylae), among others, offers one of the keenest insights into human nature I've ever encountered.

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Rajesh Setty

JANUARY 27, 2013

This is the next stage of elimination where you really give them your real attention and contemplate a bit. As they started becoming popular, others (most notable being Bill Gates) came to him. This is not a bad thing as you need to get a LOT of ideas before some of them turn out to be GOOD ideas. Death at First Filter. Who you are.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

By the time idea generators had gone through this gauntlet of gate-keepers, their ideas became watered down and wafer thin — acceptable to everyone, exciting to no one. Another approach is to document different criteria for early-stage ideas. How can you tell whether your company suffers from iteration-itis?

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Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist Idea Generation Document 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. Almost every company has a Stage Gate process because they work well for incremental innovation. Breakthrough (changes the game) innovations, contrary to popular belief, need a top-down approach.

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Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Bill Gates’ vision for Microsoft (“A computer on every desk and in every home”) would have been a lot less tangible had he written it as: “Becoming a world leader in the software industry.” Assess if Your Organization Is Living Its Purpose The final stage to building corporate purpose is to assess how well your organization is living it.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Bill Gates’ vision for Microsoft (“A computer on every desk and in every home”) would have been a lot less tangible had he written it as: “Becoming a world leader in the software industry.”. The final stage to building corporate purpose is to assess how well your organization is living it.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Of course, McCain's selection of Palin also changed the conversation; but what initially looked like an inspired decision quickly led to recriminations as Palin revealed herself to be unprepared for the national stage (witness her infamous Katie Couric interview ).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

Second, they take a few basic ingredients — brand, marketing, technology, and service — and combine them in just the right ways over the course of five stages. In each stage, they ask themselves what gaps need to be filled. Stage 1: Is there a recognition gap? Stage 2: Is there a brand-personalization gap?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Of course, McCain's selection of Palin also changed the conversation; but what initially looked like an inspired decision quickly led to recriminations as Palin revealed herself to be unprepared for the national stage (witness her infamous Katie Couric interview ).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Incremental innovation can be pushed down into the organization where the strategy is clear, decision metrics are understood, and management models like Stage-Gate create a level playing field. So Stage-Gate models can unintentionally kill potentially big ideas. However, for game-changing innovation it's the opposite.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

In contrast, my client, the CEO of a new biotech company walks on stage, rolls up his shirt sleeve, and stops at the center of the stage. Schedules are packed as the high-stakes finance crowd gathers to hear 20-minute rapid-fire talks by CEOs of start-ups and public companies who seek funding or favorable stock analysts' reports.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In some cases, companies’ moats have enabled them to survive multiple technology disruptions and industry shifts over time, making their founders some of richest people in the world: think Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Amancio Ortega, and Larry Ellison.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

The general way around this problem seems simple enough — have a process by which you evaluate ideas in different ways at different stages of development (most call this a "stage-gate process."). Endless pre-meetings crowd out action-based learning.

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Stage-Gate Due Diligence Disruptive Innovation Document 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

In my book, Mastering the VC Game , I describe a metaphor for the three stages of a start-up: the jungle, the dirt road and the highway. In the earliest stages of a venture - the jungle - there are no clear paths available and the skills required are to thrive in the midst of the chaos. Seeking fun can transcend all other factors.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Objective Career 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

The companies did reasonably well on making decisions using a formal process and managing projects using a disciplined approach (such as the stage/gate methodology). Finally, the firms were asked about the leadership practices that we know are associated with effective management of growth. Where did things start to get ugly?

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