Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. We take a look at ourselves and see so many areas for improvement that we are tempted to attack them all at once. Resist this temptation. Focus is the key. Take immediate action. Where the fins hit the water is when we take action toward their fulfillment.

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Goal Blog Letter Open-book 134

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Mark was always one of the smartest kids in his class. 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. Shana Novak/Getty Images. Likewise, there are colleagues at his firm who have leapfrogged him. ” Sound familiar?

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Succession Class Learning-by-Doing Teamwork 15

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. Which methods of transport, in which classes, are you able to use?

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Hotels Organization Travel Transportation 71

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge.

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Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

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. I also offered three questions for undergrads, graduate students, and their families to ponder: Students: What world-class skills can I offer?

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Wiseman Mentor Hammer Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

If your employees aren’t behaving well, and you’ve already gone through the trouble of hammering home the organization’s civility message, ask yourself, “Have I also equipped them to succeed?” ” Don’t assume everyone instinctively knows how to be civil; many people never learned the basic skills.

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Team Franchising Hammer Training 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

“There were catchphrases that had to be hammered into the head of the employees, just like advertising does to the general public.” “It’s a genre that Americans associated with class and with prosperity, so that sort of aesthetic gave it its emotional hook” with big companies, Murphy said.

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Morale Conference Hammer Film 8

N2Growth Blog

JULY 19, 2011

The Tobacco Industry - The tobacco industry has been publicly hammered for selling products that leverage the addictive effects of Nicotine, and even with all the known health hazards smokers face, in many instances the addictive nature of the product is greater than peoples ability to make a logical decision.

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Marketing Tactics Brand Ethics 310

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The result was the Fed-Treasury Accord of 1951, which McCabe hammered out with Assistant Treasury Secretary William McChesney Martin. Martin was a former stockbroker and New York Stock Exchange president who took graduate classes in finance at Columbia while working on Wall Street in the 1930s.

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Banking Rogers Career Education 9

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Government is like a sledge hammer. It is only good at one thing, and the use of a sledgehammer is obvious. However, when you are a sledgehammer, every problem tends to look like a cinder block in need of smashing.

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Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

If your employees aren’t behaving well, and you’ve already gone through the trouble of hammering home the organization’s civility message, ask yourself, “Have I equipped them to succeed?” ” Don’t assume everyone knows how to be civil; many people never learned the basic skills.

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Cooper Hammer Training Film 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

That’s still widely taught in business-school classes and it’s easy for people to understand. [A Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations. But there are these two classes of explanations for why it didn’t work. They tend to be followed by declining prices.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8