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Moving Beyond Stage-Gate Project Management

Harvard Business Review

Traditional approaches, such as the stage-gate process, while effective at incremental improvements, don’t work as well when it comes to breakthrough innovations or attempts to change established behaviors.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

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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Everyday is About Relationships - Both Personal and Business

Cooperperson

Sometimes in the “courting stage”, we pay full attention to a new client or employee. Last year, an interesting headline made the news on Valentine’s Day: Bill Gates Just Wrote A Valentine’s Love Letter To Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett has been a mentor to Bill Gates and a benefactor to his charitable foundation.

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The Call of “Not Knowing”– How Uncertainty is Still the Test of Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Then there are leaders who really are geeks: Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk. Gates, Dorsey and Musk are like brainy action figures of leadership. They enjoy learning and they don’t mind mistakes as long as the mistakes are the kind where we learn and grow and ultimately leapfrog us forward to a viable solution.

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Government Needs To Build Bridges To Solve Wicked Problems

The Horizons Tracker

Philanthropists in the United States have donated billions of dollars, with the Gates Foundation alone outspending the World Health Organization on global health issues. However, private investment excels in supporting early-stage innovations. Indeed, the authors assert that public policies necessitate private partners.

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New Job? Five Mistakes We All Make.

Rich Gee Group

Your job is to blast out of the starting gate, make some quick wins, and fill up your new savings account with good-will currency. You are on stage right now and many people are silently grading you. You can work as hard as you did at your last job. You have to kick it up a notch at your new job.

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Everyday is About Relationships, Both Personal and Business

Cooperperson

Sometimes in the “courting stage”, we pay full attention to a new client or employee. Last year, an interesting headline made the news on Valentine’s Day: Bill Gates Just Wrote A Valentine’s Love Letter To Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett has been a mentor to Bill Gates and a benefactor to his charitable foundation.