CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. But without effective leadership, corporate purpose feels abstract and disconnected from an employee’s day-to-day job.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market. But without effective leadership, corporate purpose feels abstract and disconnected from an employee’s day-to-day job.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 9, 2011

Leadership. by John • May 10, 2011 • Life , Marketing • 1 Comment. He also knows that current Prostate Cancer treatments post a success rate of over 90% when caught in the early stages. Leadership. Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home.

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Stage-Gate Brand Human Resources CEO 100

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Bill Gates is the master of staying ahead of the pack in the business world. John Durfee is a Gulf War veteran and the marketing manager for Airsplat, the nation’s largest retailer of Airsoft Guns including Spring Airsoft Rifles. The temperature is dropping quickly in the desert night.

Management 150

Management Stage-Gate Ethics Marketing 150

Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

Filed under: Leadership , Knowledge , Market-driven , Innovation , Product Management / Marketing Tagged: | strategy , customer focus , products , services , Carol Bartz , Yahoo! She has a tremendous task ahead to realign Yahoo’s products to the market. This is the new corporate strategy for Yahoo.

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Strategy Stage-Gate Productivity Products 100

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. Assign a leader to this organization and establish a leadership team to support that person.

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 272

Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Last Friday, Hewlett Packard announced that its CEO, Mark Hurd, had resigned after an internal investigation showed that he had submitted false expense reports related to time that he spent with a female marketing consultant to the company. As a leader, you are always on stage. Maybe Mark Hurd forgot about that.  

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Stage-Gate Letter Blog Executive Coaching 175

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? Discover a healthy leadership habit of @MichaelHyatt at Click To Tweet. Check out these healthy habits of #leadership experts @MichaelHyatt, @MarkTimm, and @48DaysTeam Click To Tweet.

Succession 316

Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The challenges of urban K-12 education in the United States, and indeed globally, are at a crisis stage. presidential administrations.

Education 14

Education Innovation Stage-Gate Software 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate. Yes, Steve Jobs actually unveiled a leather iPod pouch on stage. There are other markets waiting to be disrupted, for sure. Volatile stock: In 2008, under Jobs, the stock price dropped by more than 50%. That was an underwhelming day. Amazon's price-to-earnings ratio is now 2,767.

Marketing 11

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

In particular, most respondents expected growth in emerging markets to become more important, as the underlying growth rate in developed economies remains sluggish. Finally, the firms were asked about the leadership practices that we know are associated with effective management of growth. But there's an acquisition gap, too.

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Stage-Gate Report Project Uncertainty 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The bad news is that the job market is really tight, and it’s preventing us from hiring the conceptual designers we need.” An independent steering committee’s first “gate” review of the project, at the end of the conceptual-design stage, had been scheduled for Week 15; she postpones it to Week 33. What went wrong?

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics. The most widely used metric among our respondents, for instance, was revenue being generated by new products or services over the course of their first few years in the market. Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

By now, we all know that leadership is tough, hard, exciting and demanding. They must be bold in their actions, willing to take calculated risks together that will have the greatest potential to achieve major, market?shifting By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts. Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. shifting results.

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CEO Succession Tips How To 357

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.”. Are today’s investors really that horrible?

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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Decision scientist: Which content to license, which sales lead to follow, which medicine is less likely to cause an allergic reaction, which webpage design will lead to more engagement or more purchases, which marketing email will yield higher revenue, which specific part of a product user experience is suboptimal and needs attention.

Engineering 12

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

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. Consider, for example, the UK software company, Red Gate. So a more focused approach may be more worthwhile.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. Scoping projects for success and managing ambition: Interdisciplinary design teams are, by nature, optimistic and ambitious.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

One financial services company we know reviews the viability of the business case at every major stage gate. A bonus result: IT leaders have a better sense of what makes the business tick, and members of the executive leadership team have a better sense of when and how to make IT investments that matter.

CIO 8

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. In our experience, most leadership development programs give scant attention to these innovation-enabling attitudes and behaviors.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. However, it's also the MOST CRITICAL skill in senior management and leadership positions.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

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.

Entrepreneur 8

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. In these cases Rwanda had eroded assets, but there was a foundation and a proof point, a market test that these areas could be successful and they could be competitive. How do we upgrade? Kagame: Right.

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10