Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2014

She’s using good processes, tools, best practices, and is committed to the development of her company’s leaders. They may be chickens (involved), but they’re not pigs (committed). Their boss is always hammering, er…, asking them about it. I’ve written about the importance of CEO commitment before. They have to be!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

Almost every process improvement initiative I've researched over the last three years in more than 50 organizations has been pushed from the top. These mandated-from-above programs include Lean Six Sigma initiatives with experts (" Belts ") in command, big IT implementations, and reengineering of major end-to-end processes.

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Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

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. Building bridges between generations is most effective when it’s baked into the company’s values, culture, and processes. rawpixel/unsplash.

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Wiseman Mentor Hammer Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

This starts in the interview process when you have the opportunity to articulate your values to prospects during the hiring process. We respect each other’s time commitments. So what can a manager do to ensure that people on their team or in their department treat each other well? Articulate values and set expectations.

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Team Franchising Hammer Training 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

When I ask leadership development clients to describe the type of motivation they’d like to see in their teams, they mention qualities such as persistence, being a self-starter, having a sense of accountability for and commitment to achieving results, and being willing to go the extra mile on projects or to help other team members.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? That means you must recruit ‘A players’ through a big vision of the future and a personal commitment to a mission. .’ Great organizations encourage risk-taking. Because innovation requires it. About the Author.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Among the problems: Agassi "effectively committed to a business model before he even settled on a name" and didn''t bother to hire people with management or automotive experience. The company hopes that these employees will then be able to make automated processes more productive. "We

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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.” Home Run Media’s Turning Point. No problems there.

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Media Hammer Software Company 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

In Japan, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down. For example, university professors who write books end up promoting their university in the process. In India, it’s crabs in a bucket — the one who tries to escape is pulled down by his compatriots. In Australia, it’s tall poppies — and the tallest one gets its head whacked off.

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Self-aware Brand Hammer Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Yellen, whose first workday as chair ( the Senate confirmed her as “chairman,” but the Fed seems committed to leaving the “man” out ) is today, got her PhD at Yale. The result was the Fed-Treasury Accord of 1951, which McCabe hammered out with Assistant Treasury Secretary William McChesney Martin.

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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. “I tailored it to the company based on where I was in the process, what I knew about the people there, and the company culture,” he says. He also developed a longer, more traditional resume to use when he formally applied for a position.

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How To Career Sample Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Use a big hammer. By starting with a big hammer, the store would learn whether customers care about local sourcing. Commit to a plan, and stick to it. Experimentation is a long-term, richly informative process, with each trial forming the starting point for the next. How many observations will you collect?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

But the mental process of building an imaginary picture is complicated, and certain weaknesses can be interpreted as strengths, lending the image an aura of authenticity. Understanding this process can be advantageous for leaders who hope to motivate and inspire. Those standards come from the leader.

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Stage-Gate CEO Insurance Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 28, 2017

Leader manages the process Every meeting has two things happening simultaneously. There’s the content of the meeting, the information, the debate, the hammering out of different points of view. Secondly, there is the process of the meeting. The leader needs to manage both content and process. Are we on topic?

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Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer Participative 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Today, that process-based coverage is largely gone. After getting hammered by the press and most commentators for his lackluster performance during the first debate, Obama's campaign wasn't going to take any chances during the second one at Hofstra University in New York. But that doesn't mean they aren't trying.

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Media Marketing Politics Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The first half of the ad hammers this home by saying: “Illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay, collecting social security benefits—skipping the line.” There is a segment of behavioral science called “fluency processing.” Aren’t you playing in my yard now?

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