Whether you are investing in hundreds of innovation projects across the organization or managing a focused sub-group of projects with strategic importance, what leaders need now is more time spent focusing on existing initiatives and greater transparency into these initiatives, along with the right metrics to organize, evaluate, and fund (or de-fund) projects.

By: Stephanie Schott, Godfrey Bakuli, Viv Goldstein, John Geraci

To recoup their investment in R&D and restore its role as a center for innovation, companies need to give it a more commercial point of view by guiding it with three questions: Who is your customer? What do they want? And how are you uniquely positioned to address it?

By: Stephanie Schott & Mandisa Turner

Perhaps grit and resilience aren’t characteristics that we simply choose to cultivate or embody. Maybe they are just the natural byproduct from making a series of small steps in a positive direction after something terrible befalls us.

By: Stephanie Schott

I decided to pursue a career in startups, and, instead of waiting for those startups to create a rotational leadership program, I invented my own ad-hoc development program. I knew that if I chose the right startup and was strategic about how to expose myself to the boundless learning opportunities, I could leverage that experience to accelerate my personal career growth, ultimately, setting myself on a trajectory for leadership. And here’s how you can too.

By: Stephanie Schott