Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

As you wait behind the door, you hear your team line up, boots scuffing the ground, weapons cocked. Both positions need to have the same sense of vision, drive, and planning, in order to make their teams survive and thrive. Your team is only as great as you show them to be. You open the door and see a burst of light.

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Management Stage-Gate Ethics Marketing 150

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

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. Surround Yourself with a Great Team. Keep Your Customers Happy.

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Short-term Long-term Stage-Gate Mentor 63

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Ask yourself: Which behaviors create alignment across teams and help in decision making? 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.”

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Ask yourself: Which behaviors create alignment across teams and help in decision making? 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.”.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Author Steven Pressfield, the creative genius behind the book (and later movie) entitled, The Legend of Baggar Vance , as well as the beautifully written historical fiction book entitled The Gates of Fire (about the famed battle of Thermopylae), among others, offers one of the keenest insights into human nature I've ever encountered.

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Stage-Gate Letter Open-book Blog 126

Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

First, he encourages bosses to remember the toxic tandem – that your team is watching you very closely and that it’s really important that you be aware that they’re watching you. As a leader, you are always on stage. How about that issue of stage presence? Maybe Mark Hurd forgot about that.  

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Stage-Gate Letter Blog Executive Coaching 175

Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

New products can spring from creative ideas, but these products need to fit the overall corporate goals established by Carol Bartz and her management team. In Bartz’s case, there is a queue of TPSE to work through before they stage gate the emerging ideas against strategy alignment. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Strategy Stage-Gate Productivity Products 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. How do you prevent a drop-off?

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Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

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. They must interact with their work teams frequently throughout all of innovation's phases, from the beginning.

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Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

First, the teams behind winning apps tend to be composed of the organizations' best techno-marketing talent, people with deep understanding of social media. Second, they take a few basic ingredients — brand, marketing, technology, and service — and combine them in just the right ways over the course of five stages.

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Stage-Gate Airlines Brand Loyalty 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Incremental innovation can be pushed down into the organization where the strategy is clear, decision metrics are understood, and management models like Stage-Gate create a level playing field. So Stage-Gate models can unintentionally kill potentially big ideas. A creatively resourced, multi-functional dedicated team.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

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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Stage-Gate Kaplan Intangible Assets Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

The general way around this problem seems simple enough — have a process by which you evaluate ideas in different ways at different stages of development (most call this a "stage-gate process."). Innosight's venture capital "team" is a two-person shop in Singapore.

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Stage-Gate Due Diligence Disruptive Innovation Document 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation (CFI) was established in 2008, becoming the first healthcare innovation center to employ a team of in-house designers. 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 20, 2018

What the company wanted to do was to create a kind of “top-gun” center that could train business unit-level team members and support the most innovative and critical initiatives of the company. following a traditional stage-gate process).

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In slightly bigger teams, each of these may be a role staffed by one or more individuals. In larger operations, each may be a team unto itself. Data quality and data governance: tools, processes, guidelines to ensure data is correct, gated and monitored, documented, standardized. Who to hire.

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Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

That’s when it is prudent to increase media spending; at this stage, today’s customers will be ready to listen. I worked on more than a few global brands where the management and marketing team really didin’t fully understand the strengths of own brand. Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Leadership.

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Brand CEO Stage-Gate SWOT 168

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. Issuing equity to the early team often triggers time-sensitive filings with the IRS.

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Stage-Gate Finance Analysis Training 8

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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Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

And they watch for and stop the common problem of their team members or other senior leaders pushing pet projects through product development. The senior leadership team needs to respect and adhere to the same standards as everyone else. And since he was the breakthrough innovation team, there was no corporate campus to escape from.

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Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

To understand the work, first you need to understand an airport's business model: its real customer isn't travelers, but the airlines that rent the gates and terminals, much like a mall owner leases space to retailers. The team kicked off by conducting in-airport interviews with travelers.

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B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 15

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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CEO Succession Tips How To 382

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Companies as diverse as AIG, Disney, and Intuit have been building innovation teams, launching “accelerator” programs to attract promising startups, and giving employees seed funding to test out new ideas with real customers. Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one. stage to the next.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Make it a management team exercise to have a new ethnic experience together, and then discuss how it could shape your innovation and portfolio. Be sure that your innovation process stage gate isn't a taste test amongst folks with merely a mainstream palate, but ones that reflect the appropriate variety in the market.

Marketing 15

Marketing Stage-Gate Industry Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

This isn’t surprising, given other research about the performance of diverse teams; it’s a timely reminder of the importance of increasing female entrepreneurship and of the opportunity that VCs may be missing by continuing to disproportionately fund white men. Female-founded startups outperformed all-male teams.

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Succession Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Due Diligence 8

Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

No matter if you’re in the early stages of your leadership journey or you’re a well-seasoned leader, you won’t have all the answers. Those highs will come at the expense of other businesses or having to let go of underperforming team members. Encourage your team members to get back into shape. So, she asked.

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Leadership Price Learning-by-Doing Stage-Gate 157

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

I really don't think there is just one - it is competence (having skills listed on the job description), willingness to listen and learn, adaptability, dependability, honesty, team work. The #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker is the ability to work independently and without close supervision while also being a team player.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

This is about engaging project sponsors, system users, architects, and development teams in a clear understanding of the actual value received and how that relates to the business case originally used to justify the project. One financial services company we know reviews the viability of the business case at every major stage gate.

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CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. I learned that in order for me to be successful as a healthcare leader, I needed to practice what our medical team preaches. You can’t drive your vehicle on an empty tank, nor can you lead your life or teams with zero energy. Chris Jordan of Team CNE.

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

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

van Wassenhove, both of Insead in France, found that the complexity of high-tech innovation efforts can blur teams’ perceptions. Commentaries by project manager Roger Thomas and researcher Kim van Oorschot provide frameworks for understanding the team’s decisions. She reschedules the first gate for Week 42.

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Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

They may be flesh and blood to the senior team and the assistants in the C-suite, but to people in outer orbits, from operational departments to business units, they are imaginary constructs. When the employee left Gates’s office, his son had insurance coverage. They’re mental images.

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Stage-Gate CEO Insurance Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

If you want to keep your team jazzed about its work, start thinking like a video game designer. Truly effective video game designers know how to create a sense of progress for players within all stages of a game. After one such meeting, for example, a team member wrote in his diary, "The project passed start gate today.

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Video Stage-Gate Motivation Project 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Many business conferences are notable not only for the prominent people on stage, but also for those who are missing. Women’s under-representation at such events gets a lot of attention, but people of color are also relatively rare on conference stages. As a leader, commit yourself to improving your selection process.

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Conference Stage-Gate Proposal Ries 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

On February 14, 2014, Stanford students Elizabeth Woodson and Saul Gurdus drove a rented Winnebago to the San Mateo office of the Golden Gate Regional Center (GGRC), where they greeted eight curious GGRC staff members. The GGRC team would assess each family’s needs and decide if they qualified for assistance right then and there.

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Case Study Stage-Gate Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Executives realized that to do this, they would need to reallocate some of the company’s innovation resources from late-stage product enhancements to early-stage product breakthroughs. ” Personally mentoring innovation teams. The entire top team has to be on board. Freeing up time and money for innovation.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

They have a full team of designers, videographers, writers, and more who focus on creating the best asset, not just another asset. With a team of talented marketers, amazing creatives, and SEO experts, they create content that stands out in an industry overloaded with a content publication. Pay your writers and creative team well.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105