Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. How to create a cadre of professionals at every level – people who focus not just on limited tasks but the overall outcome and ensure that the company gets and keeps happy customers. There are lots of companies like Bob’s, fragmented and inefficient. Most companies get metrics all wrong.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 26, 2011

Here is an article written by Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.”

Hammer 89

Hammer Diversity Innovation Article 89

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

For me the lesson is this: Companies should complement a top-down push with as much bottom-up pull as possible to sustain momentum and avoid regression back to previous, inferior levels of performance. Consider the competition between push and pull camps in a major oil company. Finally, the improvement experts (and I am one!)

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. It had been a long day at the company’s Birmingham, England, headquarters, and in the early evening the two were going over the evaluations of each of Lance’s direct reports. .”

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Way #2: Audi agreed with the stance that would require governmentally enforced global eco-wacko-ism and thought it was funny to poke fun at people who don't share the extreme "granola" viewpoint.  Government is like a sledge hammer. I am okay with this view, though the imagery was still very scary.

Politics 77

Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

In the six decades since Berlin's essay was published, hedgehogs have come to dominate academia, medicine, finance, law, and many other professional domains. To begin, our highly interconnected and global economy means that seemingly unrelated developments can affect each other. at all, only in some de facto way." Why's that?

Hammer 20

Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 20