Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 24, 2013

In Seth Godin's book Linchpin, he writes that “You can either fit in, or stand out. The “Whack-a-Mole” game is one where you grab a large padded hammer - and you score points by hitting the plastic moles when they pop up their heads. Outstanding teams are ones who are willing to take risks. Not both.”.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

I’m talking about big change such as Amazon’s impact on book publishers, the i-phone’s impact on the Black-Berry. In a crisis, whether short or long-term, the most senior people in the organization need to step up and offer innovative solutions to the issues hammering the bottom-line. As difficult as the situation seems, don’t panic.

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Tony Mayo

AUGUST 22, 2009

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences? Work by Walter J.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

It’s mentioned in passing as a fact in most change management books and articles nowadays. You don’t have to be in or near the field of change management long before you hear a daunting statistic: 70% of change initiatives fail. ” How do they know?

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The maxim “everything looks like a nail to a hammer” is an excellent reminder that every successful innovation effort relies on the people—and all their fears, emotions, and humanness—who must fuel it. His new book (with Elena Imaretska) – The Innovative Mindset: 5 Behaviors for Accelerating Breakthroughs – is available now from Wiley.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2019

In closing, remember that the only chains and shackles that hold any of us back from any goal in life are those that we ourselves forge in the fires of doubt and hammer out on the anvils of lack of belief. After that he started, developed, and eventually sold, his own book company. Tap Into Your Richest Resources.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 4, 2015

They may envision snapshots of awards ceremonies, book-signings and interviews. His letter hammers home in a loving but firm way the virtues of hard work. Despite the book’s success and the accolades that followed, or perhaps because of them, Capote never published another novel again. Image via Creative Commons.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In Haiti, I read more books, do more yoga, write more essays, and cook more meals. I find myself hammering out emails at 11PM on Sunday with the TV on and my phone lighting up with messages. I actually studied French instead of putting it off. In the U.S., electricity at night and streaming internet is usually enough to derail me.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s. Hershman is the Chief Executive Officer of Hammer and Company. Without the diagram the equipment would be useless. About the Authors.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

I’m talking about big change such as Amazon’s impact on book publishers, the i-phone’s impact on the Blackberry. When business goes sour, whether short or long-term, the organization’s most senior people need to step up and offer innovative solutions to the issues hammering the top and bottom-line. At best, they are managers.

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RapidStart Leadership

JULY 6, 2017

To be re-active is to automatically react to the stimuli around you, the same way that gunpowder explodes, or your leg kicks out when the doctor taps your knee with his little hammer. Stephen Covey points this out in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People. There’s no thought involved. It just happens.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

 Sadly, as the old saying goes, when a hammer is the only tool in your arsenal, you start to see every problem as a nail.  Sadly, as the old saying goes, when a hammer is the only tool in your arsenal, you start to see every problem as a nail.

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Steve Farber

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In fact, just about any business book you pick up will tell you that you need to have a vision statement, so any company that’s done its required reading will have one. They try to hammer out just the right words and phrases, and they argue for hours–days, sometimes–over the word choices.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 19, 2011

In less than two minutes, Lost Generation hammers home how we create our own reality. Amit Goswami, a physics professor (emeritus) at the University of Oregon and author of ten books, is one of the pioneers in a new multidisciplinary paradigm of science based on the primacy of consciousness.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 28, 2019

You’re probably familiar with the saying that if you’re good with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. For more ideas on how to tailor your communications to the needs of a particular audience, check out Chapter Four of my book The Next Level – Pick up custom-fit communications; Let go of one-size-fits-all communications.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2015

We are holding a hammer, waiting for the time when they are ready with a nail. She works as a coach, trainer, speaker, and consultant, and has authored 9 books including the NYTimes Business Bestseller Selling with Integrity. Her newest book What? We just need to help them do it themselves.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

They study great leadership books , they take leadership courses to improve their leadership skills, and they attend conferences so they can grow as a leader. She leveled the truth hammer. He gave up grad studies at Harvard, friendships, his life to pursue his vendetta. Mitch was dedicated to his craft. Annika saw his bruises.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

You will probably know that he has been around for a while but his message, at least for me, is as relevant to our current time as it was when he first introduced his book, The Fifth Discipline , twenty something years ago. Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. It can get pretty complex.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2012

With humor, real-world examples, and step-by-step guides, the book explains: How to make mission, values, and BHAGS relevant to daily organizational life. In order to move to Stage 3, the team must hammer out the performance standards and commitment to achieving them. Seven essential rules for effective strategic planning.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

I learned much from my teachers, more from my books, and most from my mistakes. If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. – -Confucius. –Anonymous. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. –Sir Francis Bacon.

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Building Personal Strength

JUNE 2, 2011

He would stuff comic books and bowling accessories into his shirt and walk out without paying. The day after Jason graduated from high school, he vented his rage by walking down the hallway bashing in lockers with a hammer as he went. He even invited his younger brother and sister to witness some of the more elaborate shows.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

With humor, real-world examples, and step-by-step guides, the book explains: How to make mission, values, and BHAGS relevant to daily organizational life. Performance standards hammered out. Seven essential rules for effective strategic planning. How to transform groups into high-performance teams. Focus on customers.

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

First, let's cover the basics, which are given more depth of treatment in Orrin Woodward and my book, Launching a Leadership Revolution.  Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. Goals must be specific 2. Goals must be written down 3. Goals must be set in stone 4. Resist this temptation.

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The Idolbuster

JULY 19, 2012

In his book The Black Swan , Nassim Nicholas Taleb defines the narrative fallacy as the propensity create “explanations that weave facts together” in order to make them easier to understand, and more memorable [ii]. They use hammers and nails to fasten their idols down. What we perceive is linked to what we expect to see [i].

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Hughes traces the mythical 70% failure rate back to the 1993 book Reengineering the Corporation , in which authors Michael Hammer and James Champy stated: “our unscientific estimate is that as many as 50 percent to 70 percent of the organizations that undertake a reengineering effort do not achieve the dramatic results they intended.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

I was the non-expert on the panel – I was the “book guy.” [.]. But on Thursday, I participated in a panel that was not only useful, but had a special element of “fun.” It was for the Dallas Estate Planning Council.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

.” Returning to the concept of snap-fit, this is a reference to something I first read about in an account of the remarkable turnaround of Xerox between 1982 and 1990, one shared by CEO David Kearns in his 1992 book, Prophets in the Dark.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Thomas Johnson (in the forward to the book). In those cases where the slogan is actually used as a hammer to blame employees when results disappoint is when it does cause damage. Deming understood the damage targets cause. Edwards Deming, quotes in Profits Beyond Measure by H. I achieved my goal by not my aim.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Led by the writings of Michael Hammer and Tom Davenport , firms realized that they didn't need to organize work the way they used to. So the reengineered consumption models of the sharing economy are now well poised to go mass-market, and the battle cries of Hammer and Davenport won't be necessary this time around.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

In a provocative and saucy book, It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For , Spence and coauthor Haley Rushing explain the business strategies and competitive ideas behind many of the one-of-a-kind organizations he has studied or worked with over the years, from BMW to Whole Foods Market to the U.S. I told you the book was saucy.).

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Women on Business

AUGUST 1, 2012

A book that readers of Advertising Age recently selected as “the best book they’ve ever read on marketing.” ” A book that was chosen by the Harvard Business School Press for a volume entitled “The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.”. “Dad,” I said, “how about a job? .

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

You will probably know that he has been around for a while but his message, at least for me, is as relevant to our current time as it was when he first introduced his book, The Fifth Discipline , about twenty years ago. There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#.

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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. Get your schedules right before you look to book anything.

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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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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

In his book “ Leadership ” he talks about the transformational impact that occurs on performance and morale when a leader connects a follower’s sense of identity to the collective identity of the organization. One of the ways that a good leader can help bring about personal transformation is by being a Velvet Hammer.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2011

Yale professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld described this phenomenon in his decades-old book, The Hero's Farewell. And there was Armand Hammer, CEO of Occidental Petroleum, who put in place a long-term incentive plan for himself with a ten-year payout horizon — when he was in his 90s. Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D.

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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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