The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

” As Michael Hammer famously remarked in the Harvard Business Review in 1990, successful dissemination of technology often requires a reconstruction of the processes that underpin the way our organizations function. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.

Innovation 101

Innovation Productivity Products Technology 101

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 11, 2011

Home About Consulting Church Family Leadership Navigation: Home » Ministry » Grace Community Church » Costa Rica Report, Part 2 Costa Rica Report, Part 2 January 11, 2011 in Grace Community Church , Missions with 10 Comments Yesterday was our first official “work day&# at the Abraham Project.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2015

We are holding a hammer, waiting for the time when they are ready with a nail. I actually developed a pre-sales model that facilitates a buyer’s change management process call Buying Facilitation®. But this is a much more efficient way to do this.

Influence 50

Influence Management Telemarketing Hammer 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

Companies all over the country have implemented Ann Rhoades’ methods, developed when she was an executive at JetBlue, Southwest, Doubletree and others and perfected at her consulting company, People Ink. In other words, you are never fully “done” with culture change; you must be always vigilant that no one backslides into old ways.

Environment 70

Environment Covey Airlines Mission Statement 70

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Any effort required to adapt the molding piece, because of variation in its length – a little too long or too short – represents Quality Loss, a concept introduced and developed in Japan by Genichi Taguchi. Figure 2 – Marking a piece of wood molding before cutting it to size.

System 74

System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

As long as we were making, say, good hammers, culture didn't really matter. The corporation reached out to ad agencies, to the consults, to the gurus. Malcolm Gladwell talked about "cool hunters," people went looking for the latest cultural development so the corporation could exploit it. How to make contact? Precious few.

Hammer 9

Hammer Fashion Brand Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

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&#. And yet its usefulness is so often diminished because the vision is developed “at the top” of the organization and seldom shared by those who are expected to work toward its achievement. To me, a Shared Vision is just that…shared.

Learning Organization 56

Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

One of the ways that a good leader can help bring about personal transformation is by being a Velvet Hammer. People will move mountains for you if in exchange for doing so they get to grow and develop. People grow and develop in a zone of dis comfort, not comfort. The leader has to be simultaneously caring and tough.

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McGregor Middle Management Hammer Influence 276

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

I've worked with a wide range of clients as a consultant and have seen too many companies hire employees they thought were top talent, only to watch them spend company time on personal passions and then walk out the door when their side projects were ready to launch. But too often employers hire entrepreneurs, not entrepreneurial spirit.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 9

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 6, 2009

Shifting to experiment/learn perspective would most certainly take the ‘hammer’ out of the equation. If we can shift to an experiment/learn model for many of the things we try, we can eliminate the idea of a “failure&# for many activities. Reply Gwyn Teatro July 7, 2009 at 3:50 pm Wouldn’t that be great?

Performance Review 40

Performance Review Learning-by-Doing Blog Hammer 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Sometimes a strong leader can through force of will create alignment among these warring factions, but in my experience a more consultative approach that respects the legitimacy of everyone’s position achieves better results. We followed up with weekly review meetings to discuss progress, analyze problems, and hammer out solutions.

Company 8

Company Franchising Retail Incentives 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. So if you want innovation, individuals must to be taught to do four things: Challenge invisible orthodoxies.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

QAspire

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It was the first day of his job as a consultant with this large consulting house. The consultant entered the office and walked across the corridor confidently, armed with his knowledge about methodologies, tools and best practices. It is said that when only thing you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Consultative 170

Consultative Content Hammer Quality 170

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 28, 2017

There’s the content of the meeting, the information, the debate, the hammering out of different points of view. He is also the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zenger Folkman , a professional services firm providing consulting and leadership development programs for organizational effectiveness initiatives.

Productivity 100

Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer Participative 100