Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

When they appear on stage or in a meeting, the electricity is palpable. A wonderful, special gift, much like artistic, athletic, or musical ones that put those lucky enough to have it a notch ahead of the rest of us at the starting gate. That aura, that confidence, that vibe. All eyes will find them. And they will attract a crowd.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 1, 2011

Once a band has lost its luster and has fallen from the top 3 or 4 in its category, the opportunity for a successful re-stage is limited. Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Recent Comments Alan Kay on Turnarounds and the Big Play John on Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Now I ask you.

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 22, 2018

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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2023

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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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

So, how would you prepare for a stage gate meeting that includes a "Go/No-Go" decision on continuing to develop a specific product? Just as crucial is the methodology- asking the right questions from the outset that are relevant to the gate decision. How Does This Change the New Product Development Process?

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 29, 2019

Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. When you get enough of them together, you create a blue lobster organization – one that creates positive disruption. It is incumbent upon us, whether we’re a blue lobster or not, to find, nurture and develop blue lobsters. Blue Lobsters.

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CO2

APRIL 8, 2013

Build a stage-gate process for ideas to be introduced and developed. Provide a forum for employees to propose, discuss, and vote on ideas (yours and theirs) before they’re implemented. The willingness to expose your ideas to so many people up front likely will help you filter out second-rate ideas.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Leadership must remain on one accord through a high level of trust, accountability and commitment in order to win the front and back gates of their desired outcomes (perspective). Exit your past, empower your future and allow your greatness to assist you in the conquering of new states through humility. Remember the Alamo.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

It’s only at this stage that today’s customers are prepared to listen. Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Recent Comments Alan Kay on Turnarounds and the Big Play John on Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen? Martin Birt on Gretzky, Gates, Zuckerberg: Can they see the Unseen?

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Cooperperson

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

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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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

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

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Cooperperson

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

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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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Bill Gates is the master of staying ahead of the pack in the business world. If your team becomes relied upon, you’re seen as the hardest working, producing the most value for the company, and therefore you’ll make a name for yourselves.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2020

When looking for funding at any stage, a strong customer base will make the whole process infinitely easier. Here are some strategies your company needs to be considering getting customers at that early stage. Bill Gates said it in the 90s – content is king. That’s why marketing is such an essential thing for startups to nail.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 11, 2021

After all, hugely successful people, such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg famously didn’t finish college before building their hugely successful businesses. Tamo Junto are intervening at the very early stage of this process, and often need to forment the notion of oneself as an entrepreneur in the first place.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2015

Leadership in actively and effectively engaging with key stakeholders and sustaining their buy-in ensures the expected business outcomes are realized at each phase or stage gate of the organizational transformation.

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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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Mills Scofield

APRIL 29, 2019

Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. When you get enough of them together, you create a blue lobster organization – one that creates positive disruption. It is incumbent upon us, whether we’re a blue lobster or not, to find, nurture and develop blue lobsters. Blue Lobsters.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

In Bartz’s case, there is a queue of TPSE to work through before they stage gate the emerging ideas against strategy alignment. Strategy alignment is an many-to-many proposition in a company that has been around for a long time. They will probably work both ends towards the middle.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 27, 2020

Grieving has stages. But God has made promises for His church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. All those plans changed suddenly after only a few weeks on the job. That’s a loss.). We don’t grieve like the rest of the world, but we should grieve. Every loss deserves a grief period. And they are different for everyone.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 19, 2023

And, if we're Settling, right out of the gate we know we won't be striving to reach our communication potential in any way. Question: At what point or stage in a person's career is your book most helpful and why?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Once the product-development stage concludes, a fancy marketing campaign is used to glamorize the team’s hard work, labor, and perseverance, ready to compete against other products of the same league. Building a new product is a daunting task that requires the collaborative efforts of many people. Pick a date.

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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. During a game, he received a call on his walkie-talkie that there was someone at the gate with a counterfeit ticket and the man said he knew David. So, she asked.

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Rajesh Setty

JANUARY 27, 2013

This is the next stage of elimination where you really give them your real attention and contemplate a bit. As they started becoming popular, others (most notable being Bill Gates) came to him. This is not a bad thing as you need to get a LOT of ideas before some of them turn out to be GOOD ideas. Death at First Filter. Who you are.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 14, 2019

Bill Gates and Paul Allen shared a passion for computers and technology, and Microsoft is the result of their work. The initial stage in a workflow process for most businesses is some sort of consultation, request, or order from a customer. Optimize the Workflow of any Business with Software Implementation. Project Management Software.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2019

All of these factors can impact your new business’s bottom line, and you don’t want to enter into an unprofitable business from the start because you overlooked an important question or two in the preliminary stages. You want to ensure you’re coming out of the gate swinging in order for your new company to be a success.

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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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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. Set yourself some medium-term goals, and stick to them!

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Humans are one of the few mammals whose babies are not fully developed at birth. Unlike horses, whales, etc., human babies can’t stand, walk, or forage on their own at birth. They are totally dependent upon adult humans for constant, continual support just to live. We are used to this, we accept it, we don’t expect anything different.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. On the phone front, I was at my home office desk phoning execs before 7 am and well after 5 pm to avoid their Gate Keepers, AKA, executive assistants. Dan Miller of 48 Days. Nothing has contributed more to my success than my reverence for the first 90 minutes of every day.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

By the time idea generators had gone through this gauntlet of gate-keepers, their ideas became watered down and wafer thin — acceptable to everyone, exciting to no one. Another approach is to document different criteria for early-stage ideas. How can you tell whether your company suffers from iteration-itis?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Of course, McCain's selection of Palin also changed the conversation; but what initially looked like an inspired decision quickly led to recriminations as Palin revealed herself to be unprepared for the national stage (witness her infamous Katie Couric interview ).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Of course, McCain's selection of Palin also changed the conversation; but what initially looked like an inspired decision quickly led to recriminations as Palin revealed herself to be unprepared for the national stage (witness her infamous Katie Couric interview ).

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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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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

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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