Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

There’s no single CEO-like entity and no hierarchy for single accountability. 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.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

A multi-million dollar CEO was forced to resign; a flight attendant chose not to wait for the jetway to depart and an office worker named “Jenny” shared her white board based resignation letter with millions when it went viral online.  As a leader, you are always on stage. How about that issue of stage presence?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

When similar journeys are decided on by leaders in the driver’s seat of their organizations, the challenge to accomplish such a task means that CEOs must be able to navigate their way around the VUCA minefields (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) and instruct their senior teams how to do the same. Remember the Alamo.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

Yahoo’s new CEO Carol Bartz has shown the need to drive ideas to strategies from the highest levels of the company. At Autodesk (where she was CEO for 14 years) she delivered annual sales growth of 13% and increased the stock value more than eight times. This is the primary responsibility of product managers.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. The CEO as Chief Brand Custodian. CEOs who continually talk about brand assets are often the ones living off the luster of yesteryear’s brand equity. I’m advocating that CMOs and CEOs recognize the necessity of their own direct and passionate involvement as chief brand custodians. Main menu Home.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

It's a script we've heard before, whether it's yesterday's much-lauded announcement that Google executive Marissa Mayer will become Yahoo's new CEO or John McCain's ultimately disastrous choice to pick Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate. Mayer's appointment as CEO succeeded on all counts.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

It's a script we've heard before, whether it's yesterday's much-lauded announcement that Google executive Marissa Mayer will become Yahoo's new CEO or John McCain's ultimately disastrous choice to pick Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate. Mayer's appointment as CEO succeeded on all counts.

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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.” 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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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. perform better than CEOs whose softer skills such as team building or listening dominate.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

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. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

The two were sitting on stage at Radio City Music Hall chatting about business-y stuff when the retired GE CEO made the suggestion, and I was a little surprised when the retired IBM CEO didn’t dismiss it out of hand. I’d be interested, Palmisano replied, but only “if Bill took the company private.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

While that is stronger-than-average performance, it certainly isn't what a CEO would like to report. 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). Where did things start to get ugly?

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Gates’ original quote contended that the dinosaurs can be ”bypassed.” The glacial pace at which banks have moved SME lending online has left them vulnerable.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Improving innovation is one of the key competencies that companies often look for when replacing a CEO. While that might seem counterintuitive, the findings of the Nielsen study indicates that when CEOs and other high level executives get involved in creating new products and services, revenue from the new products drops by 80%.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

For all of these reasons, large companies need to have a distinct Innovation Unit headed up by a senior executive who ideally reports to the CEO. following a traditional stage-gate process).

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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. The dynamics between a CEO and the investors on her board are a function of the legal arrangements articulated in the financing agreements.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one. stage to the next. Sixty-nine percent of respondents said they’re gathering that data. The five most commonly used metrics were: Revenue generated by new products. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline. P&L impact or other financial impact.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

When they appear on stage or in a meeting, the electricity is palpable. I saw one of them last week at the World Business Forum (#wbf10 on Twitter) in New York – former General Electric CEO Jack Welch. He had quite the command of the audience, answering questions with searing honesty and with a flair only possessed by the charismatic.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data quality and data governance: tools, processes, guidelines to ensure data is correct, gated and monitored, documented, standardized. To answer that question, first decide what stage you are in with your data operation, and second ask how vital data is to your product. This includes tools for data lineage and data security.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. vincent tsui for hbr. Both of these lead to better management and higher RQ.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

By understanding and addressing the barriers, we have the ability to develop on-ramps and pathways to engage MBA talent at varying stages of their careers. Today, he is a program officer for Next Generation Learning Models at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. And what does it take to keep them on this path?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The same could well be said of Bill Gates, who has left mere connectivity behind in his quest to eradicate major human diseases. At some point in the future, however, as it moves more assuredly onto the global stage, China will need both a new generation of dreamers and new dreams, especially in business.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Mark Timm, CEO of Ziglar Family. What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. Michael Levitt, CEO of BreakfastLeadership.com. Alinka Rutkowska, CEO of Leaders Press. Kevin Kruse, CEO of LEADx.org. Discover a healthy leadership habit of @MichaelHyatt at Click To Tweet. Tom Ziglar, Ziglar Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

An employee of Haier, the Chinese manufacturer, told us that CEO Zhang Ruimin once shut down production after he found minor dents and scratches on appliances that were coming off a manufacturing line. When the employee left Gates’s office, his son had insurance coverage.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The first stage is when it does what was being done before but better. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. Bill Gates. Sebastian Thrun, CEO of uDacity. "I It's hard to know when it will happen but at some point this will be transformative. That's what is happening now. What's next in this space?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. Consider, for example, the UK software company, Red Gate. But innovation is an elusive beast. But most companies struggle to justify that level of slack, and aren't confident it would be well used anyway.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

We understand how a CEO might come to such a conclusion. Recently, for example, Whirl­pool’s Chairman and CEO, Jeff Fettig, set a goal for the company to double the value of its innovation pipeline over the next two years. No matter how committed, a CEO can’t single-handedly reconstitute a company for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Indeed, companies are already harnessing its power at every stage in the customer relationship lifecycle—from building up-front brand awareness to reminding customers of their success. As these companies show, data can play a powerful role in telling your story at every stage in your relationship with customers.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Ganguly, CEO of DimDim, suggested that we organized “virtual book readings” over their platform. Through the Entrepreneur Journeys project, I have come to conclude that the most vulnerable phase in an entrepreneur’s life is the pre-$1 million revenue stage. Also, take the story of Girish Mathrubootham, CEO of Freshdesk.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

According to Noah Kagan, the CEO of SUMO , Sujan is half-mad scientist and half content master. One myth for me is that creating unique content for a matrix of each stage of the buying journey for each distinct customer segment is simply not sustainable for most companies. Pay your writers and creative team well.

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