Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

As a leader, you are always on stage. How about that issue of stage presence? 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. 

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Stage-Gate Letter Blog Executive Coaching 175

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

Instead, there was a problem with the process that an idea generator had to go through before they stood in front of senior leadership. You see, before anything made it onto the agenda of the top management's biweekly meeting, it was vetted. The idea generator had to show the idea to their line manager. And screened.

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Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist Idea Generation Document 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Note: This post was written with Mark Sebell and Jay Terwilliger, managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc., a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. If "10" is outstanding and "1" is poor, how do you rate your organization on each of these? Visible senior management involvement.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

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 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. R&D investments have been made, stage/gate processes have been built, creativity training courses have been run, and yet the outputs — exciting new products and services — don't seem to be falling into place.

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Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

That was the answer from a recent Harvard Business School MBA graduate when asked why he decided to participate in the School's Leadership Fellows program — a one-year management fellowship in nonprofit and public-sector organizations. Invest in leadership development. And what does it take to keep them on this path?

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Stage-Gate Career Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Every manager in the company should know the answer to that question. One financial services company we know reviews the viability of the business case at every major stage gate. There are many things companies can do with IT, but if management doesn''t establish priorities, it''s easy to do many things badly.

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CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

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. One lesson on how to address this question comes, ironically, from an old-economy company. For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary.

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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

And he has assembled a high-powered Western fan club consisting of, among others, Howard Schultz, Bill Gates, and Tony Blair. So we are doing everything 24 hours a day thinking about how to increase our energy capacity. We keep sending our people to institutions of higher learning in the sciences, engineering, and management.

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 9