Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

You don’t need a personality makeover, you just need a game plan and a genuinely constructive attitude. Develop relationships with people who you trust to give you help constructive feedback. If you’re good at learning you can simply learn the skills that don’t come as naturally to you. Remember, iron sharpens iron.

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Succession Class Learning-by-Doing Teamwork 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

As the Japanese proverb warns : “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” Organizational citizenship behaviors like helping others, making constructive suggestions, and being a good sport also matter in business , helping to lubricate the social machine of the organization.

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Team Comparison Cooper Hammer 14

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

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This is a point often hammered home by Harvard Business School professor and former Medtronic CEO Bill George, who is a vocal advocate for what he calls “ True North Groups.” Others have advocated similar constructs, such as a personal board of directors. These are gatherings of peers and mentors with whom we can share.

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Leadership Hammer Short-term Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

If you accept the proposition that societies and economies are heading off the rails, then here's my hypothesis: we're about to careen into a Great Collision — people bumping up against the self-imposed perimeter of their own carefully constructed lives; human potential crashing headlong against choices that make the least of it.

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Abell Hammer Construction Morale 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The law makes an exception for capital campaigns, so it recognizes that to build a building you have to spend years raising money before work on design and construction can begin. They're using hammers where scalpels are required. The same principle should apply to building major social movements and progress.

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Proposal Telemarketing Hammer Report 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

When things start ballooning up, I sigh, get into to work a little earlier, and hammer away at them until they’re back down to size — the same way I reluctantly (but temporarily) switch from pastrami to arugula when my favorite jeans feel tight. A bad flu messes up my entire carefully constructed system.

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Tactics Management Letter Hammer 13

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Government is like a sledge hammer. Thanks Posted by: Marty Weasner | February 10, 2010 at 06:29 AM Chris, I have worked in the construction industry for a while and the trend there is to go green by complying with LEED guidelines for buildings. It is only good at one thing, and the use of a sledgehammer is obvious.

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Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2018

His previous coaches had focused on various interpersonal techniques, like how to give constructive feedback, work with different personality styles, and delegate effectively. Every hammer looks like a nail, as the saying goes. Determining what lies beneath seemingly destructive behavior requires looking beyond symptoms.

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Engineering Hammer Micromanagement Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

They may be flesh and blood to the senior team and the assistants in the C-suite, but to people in outer orbits, from operational departments to business units, they are imaginary constructs. He instructed employees to take hammers in hand — not to fix the flaws but to destroy the imperfect products.

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Stage-Gate CEO Insurance Hammer 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2016

Recruiting is like a hammer. If you’re building a house and the only tool you’ve supplied your framer is a hammer, then then don’t blame the framer if it takes five times longer than you’d like, and costs a bundle more than it should. Recruiting Is Overused and Misapplied. It used to be the only tool a framer had to frame a house with.

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Planning Hammer Succession Constraint 50

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 27, 2015

In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. It’s as if a dozen differ­ent executives wandered into an auto parts store and each came back with some­thing they thought would be useful in constructing a car. The entire top team has to be on board.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

People working in education, the arts, and the media tend to vote Democrat, while those in construction, mining, and public administration (which includes military jobs) vote Republican. BONUS BITS: Hammer + Glass Ceiling =. How Your Job Predicts Your Vote (The Atlantic). The clichés are true, according to new data from PayScale.

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Company Hammer Education Construction 8