Tony Mayo

AUGUST 22, 2009

August 22nd, 2009 — tonymayo Email This Article Languages shape the way we think about space, time, colors, and objects. See also this Wall Street Journal article by Dr. Boroditsky. Experimenters showed peasants drawings of a hammer, a saw, an axe, and a log and then asked them to choose the three items that were similar.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Just as anybody can use a hammer, only trained professionals can build a house. Most small businesses rely on Google AdWords to create manageable online marketing campaigns. The tech also lets AI create entire blog articles. The same principle applies to your digital strategy. You rely on machine recommendations blindly.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Prior to a hurricane, for instance, you’ll need to have everything from hammers and nails to plywood and sandbags on hand to prepare your small business. Whether it be you, your general manager, or someone else, there should be a point person in place for all communication efforts. Get Out Ahead of Emergencies as Best You Can.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

Would it be classic, humorous Adam Sandler a la Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, or Anger Management? Timing is everything – Earlier in this article, I discussed how classic gaming had a pattern to the enemy attacks. At the beginning of this article, I mentioned I was unsure how the new Adam Sandler movie would be.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2012

In order to move to Stage 3, the team must hammer out the performance standards and commitment to achieving them. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Relate Articles: Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 2.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

Performance standards hammered out. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Relate Articles: Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 1.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

When the hammer comes down, are you calm, collected, candid, curious, direct, and willing to listen? We found that a large majority of managers and leaders buckle under pressure. Our latest research shows that your temperament in these crucial moments has a tremendous impact on your team’s performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Most experts, for example, state that 70% of change efforts fail, but a 2011 study in the Journal of Change Management , led by the University of Brighton researcher Mark Hughes found that there is no empirical evidence to support this statistic. The insidious myth that change initiatives usually fail is disturbingly widespread.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 24, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brad Power for the Harvard Business Review blog (March 7, 2011). To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * When they set out to [.].

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. An action plan might involve joining a health club, working out three to four times a week, and managing your caloric intake. Now, I am not a weight management specialist. Resist this temptation. Focus is the key. Take immediate action. So far so good.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

In his 1990 classic HBR article " Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate ," Michael Hammer argued that IT must drive radical process innovation. Hammer nonetheless argued for using the power of information technology to redesign a cross-functional process, then deal with the people issues.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

But until then, recipients have to manage. And often, we have to manage without the kind of administrative support 20th century executives relied on. Notably, most of the successful tactics had less to do with email and more to do with general time management — although there were two important exceptions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. We also analyzed the top 50 ranked HBR articles of all time (by reprint sales).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Many managers miss or underestimate the potential harm to high performers from their teams. Often with good intentions, managers set up high performers as targets for sabotage, aggression, and exclusion. As the Japanese proverb warns : “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.”

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

In my hands, a hammer was a dangerous tool capable of putting holes where holes shouldn’t be, and bashing fingers into submission. I didn’t need a hammer! It was a two week project, and it was one of the longest two weeks of my life. I have absolutely no aptitude for carpentry. Because numbers I could work with.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

In part, because as a parent, I'm always a little surprised when children do their homework without parental micro-management, but also because these two 8th graders made collaboration look like child's play. And yet that's not always our experience in the office. Certainly I have. In the workplace, start simply. Share an idea.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. The author’s Harvard Business Review articles are among the most highly read in the magazine’s history. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2020

One of the perks of working in a large company, with several senior responsibilities, is that it’s often left to you to travel to different destinations in order to hammer out contracts, seal deals, check up on suppliers, or help with your distribution network.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 9, 2019

Manage your expectations. If you’re using a hammer when the job requires a screwdriver, you’re going to face troubled times ahead. If you like this article, subscribe to our blog so that you don’t miss a single post. Have faith in others. Learn how to delegate. Just say “no.” Make your priorities a priority. Admit fault.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

So what can a manager do to ensure that people on their team or in their department treat each other well? First, managers need to set expectations. ” Managers at Marriott know that small daily acts affect how employees interact with others and that civility spreads in networks. How Self-Managed Teams Can Resolve Conflict.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Seeing compensation as the primary or only tool we can use to motivate high performance is like trying to build a house with only a hammer. Managers generally start out with the best of intentions. One problem that gets in the way is a mechanistic, instrumental view of the human beings who sit at our companies’ desks.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

This wonderfully written article puts the reader in the shoes of Bernie Coyle, who wants to hire 40 people to work in a new egg-white-extraction factory in the aptly named town of Fort Recovery, Ohio. might similarly manage a delicate dance with the oceans. His excitement about giving people jobs can''t be overstated.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. Moreover, in a previous HBR article , we found that trying to avoid stress creates a fight or flight response which exacerbates the negative effects. Insight Center. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

There are libraries of books and articles offering counsel on how to steer clear of the profit-sucking aspects of competition—including via white spaces and blue oceans—and their advice can be invaluable. The lesson seems clear: If you can avoid competing, by all means do so. Buffet has done quite well following his own advice.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Is it more important to create a better designed circuit board or website, or to keep to the development costs within the budget set by upper management? It’s important that the team leader embraces diversity in the ranks and does not see a culture developing where people who are different get hammered down until they conform.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Expand your range of skills for reaching insights so that you’re not the person who sees every problem as a nail because their only tool is a hammer. Experiment with taking breaks to get unstuck, and allow yourself to learn by doing rather than through exhaustive advance research.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Other executives — the division manager or the head of the business unit — should be visible from beginning to end. Then hammer out a joint plan with them. Manage the closure or layoff like a project. Use the techniques of conventional project management. Set the tone.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape…That’s what this degree of yours is — a blunt instrument. rawpixel/unsplash. So, go forth and build something with it.” ” — Bono, singer for U2, 2004 University of Pennsylvania commencement.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Compartmentalizing accountability for AI with functional leaders in IT, digital, or innovation can result in a hammer-in-search-of-a-nail outcome: technologies being launched without compelling use cases. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives. The biggest challenges are people and processes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. “You have to think carefully about what to say and how to say it so the hiring manager thinks, ‘This person can do what I need done,’” she says. Business Writing Article. Further Reading. How to Write a Cover Letter.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

.” A highly cited 2015 report on diversity in Silicon Valley by an Asian professional organization found that at five big tech firms (Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, LinkedIn, and Yahoo), Asians and Asian Americans are well represented in lower-level positions but underrepresented at management and executive levels.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Big companies hammer their entire workforce to make certain that their customer satisfaction scores are high or higher, when they could be (should be) creating an internal training program that begins with the word wow, and progresses upward from there. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

A strong, transparent, and trust-driven culture plays a central role in driving a scale-down decision and in managing the process as the it unfolds. Hammering home the point, the client added, “It’s probably a good time to terminate our contract.” Managing Cash. Home Run Media’s Turning Point.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Looking at LVMH’s efforts, I’ll highlight three areas where I see great impact and innovation: managing carbon and energy, building a connection with customers around brand purpose, and working closely with suppliers. Managing Carbon and Energy. I’ll then discuss some of LVMH’s challenges.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This manpower should consist of teams built around the innovators themselves to help with things like marketing, change management and investment appraisal. For instance, I highlighted in a recent article how despite the frequent stories of entrepreneurship, the rates are actually significantly lower than they were in the past.

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