Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. During my 87 years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. – -Seneca. – -George S. – -Robert Frost.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Hammer's thinking was very powerful, but I'd challenge that last point.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. Decision making Information & technology Operations' Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand. Certainly, some customization and personal touches were lost.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

Recent research hammers this home, showing that our performance drops when we try to perform both encoding tasks (experiencing what's around you) and response selection tasks (capturing stimuli) at the same time. Not only do we need to create a bank of experiences, we need people to notice and acknowledge our balances.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.” years in 2002 to 7.2

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I think a lot more investment decisions will have considerations about impact and the transparency and accountability that comes with technology and social media is going to propel that. If you start seeing everything through the impact investing lens, it starts looking like you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail.

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