Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Many managers miss or underestimate the potential harm to high performers from their teams. Often with good intentions, managers set up high performers as targets for sabotage, aggression, and exclusion. As the Japanese proverb warns : “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.”

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Team Comparison Cooper Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

The observation “ comparisons are odious ” dates back at least to the 15th century (long enough for Shakespeare to work a comic riff noting they’re also “odorous”). Probably the best known quotation from the eminent “management philosopher” Satchel Paige is “Don’t look back.

Comparison 8

Comparison Hammer Library Learning-by-Doing 8

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.

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Hotels Organization Travel Transportation 71

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. In the late 1960s, Frank Pipp, an assembly plant manager for a Ford Motor Company factory, instructed his staff to purchase competitor’s cars. Deming is the core of our management.”

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. And it’s not just your company.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8