Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

When I was a young product manager back in the ’70s, the only people I could talk to about brands were my colleagues in the marketing department and the advertising agency. Now my accountant, my lawyer, my portfolio manager and even my neighbour talk to me about brands. This is fantastic advice. Did you like this?

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Magazine Brand Article Marketing 100

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Here’s a guide to managing a rapidly expanding business…. 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.

Short-term 63

Short-term Long-term Stage-Gate Mentor 63

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

That's one memorable piece of advice from a leader at a global innovation powerhouse. Unfortunately, it is a piece of advice that is heeded too infrequently inside large companies. "Make sure you ask the right questions at the right time." Applying this same discipline to nascent opportunities in new spaces can be disastrous.

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Stage-Gate Due Diligence Disruptive Innovation Document 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

For icons such as Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, so goes the lore, finishing a bachelor’s degree would have only stifled the creativity that fueled their companies to stratospheric success. Such experience comes in handy in managing other third-party service providers such as bankers, accountants, and consultants.

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Stage-Gate Finance Analysis Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Getting honest, objective advice can be hard because the people you are likely to go to care about you and may be afraid to tell you what they really think for fear of offending you. 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.

Entrepreneur 17

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Objective Career 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. Decision scientist: Decision makers (executives, business leaders, product managers), data engineers, software engineers responsible for the applications generating data. They are modeling scientists.

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Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13