Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

During his interrogation, CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) had a team of CIA operatives crash the interrogation and kill the terrorists. 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. Annika saw his bruises.

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Leadership Hammer Team Process 127

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

 In the latest installment to his Little Big Things video series Tom Peters declares war on these systems and encourages managers to make it easy for all members of an organization to identify problems with an organization's systems and provide bottom-up feedback for improving the way the company operates.

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Blog Human Resources Human Capital Talent Management 124

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#. This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives. In organizations, we have this tendency to create silos of operation where people make decisions based only on their own needs.

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Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

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. Initially, we got the impression that gurus might have little in common other than a desire to get the HBR stamp of legitimacy conferred upon their latest notion.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

To help shape a shared understanding, Koh recruited an MIT team that had independently built an analytical and financial model of a seabed mining operation to give a series of influential seminars and analyze proposals for feasibility. Minimize, then expand your circle.

Advice 8

Advice Hammer Seminar Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Executives read the same trade magazines, go to the same conferences, and talk to the same consultants. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. Balance: the mix of different types of innova­tion (product, service, pricing, distribution, operations, etc.);

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8