1. Team Leads are builders who are passionate and committed. Champions stay focused on vision and inspire their team and partners to work together.

2. Team Lead and teams achieve success by following value creation process by creating value by identifying customer needs, defining an approach, enumerating benefits, and assigning a cost.

3. Team Leads who succeed almost always have one other person who helps them launch their innovation.

4. All inspirational people have others close by - too guide, support, teach, and nudge them.

5. Team Leads are the critical catalysts and facilitators of innovation teams.

6. No project should be started without a champion because the chances for success without one are almost zero.

7. As team lead champion, one of the things you will remember is the is excitement and camaraderie generated by working with othes on important projects together.

8. The value creation process iterates and compounds ideas within existing systems. So, increase value creatively by improving existing processes and technology; build what is needed, don't waste. Each day see the overall progress of the project and add new ideas, and constantly leveraging and extending achievements that had come before.

9. Four requirements are need for value creation: a. addressing an important need b. having access to new ideas c. compounding value creation d. financial, human, and other resource availability.

10. Creating new technologies, projects, and business requires new vision, new business models, and unconventional solutions. Teams offer different perspectives transforming a problem into a solvable solution. Friends and colleagues help us get unstuck with our problems. Having a knowledge repository helps build on other people’s ideas.

11. To leverage the genius of teams, you must have disciplined processes in place led by a Team lead champion. Focus on important customer and market needs. Iterate and compound ideas using collaborative techniques for sharing and communicating. To harness the team’s genius, each person must be engaged, contributing, and building on others ideas in a disciplined manner.

12. Every member of the team must feel secure about having a significant role in the project. The team members must bring critical skills necessary for the success of the project. The team members must trust their teammates skills.

13. When people are not involved, they become angry and irrational, because exclusion directly threatens their ability to contribute. People want to contribute their talents, feel respect, gaining empowerment by making or sharing in decisions, and overcoming fear and uncertainty.