LDRLB

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

In fact, it was Ronnie who took a sledge hammer to that wall and turned it into rubble. John Bell is a strategy consultant and former CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Kraft, Nabob). Ronnie was an organizer – a leader in cultural development. He refused to be blocked by the brick wall that separates management from union in most companies.

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Hammer Teamwork CEO Middle Management 145

CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

CoachStation provides consulting and business advisory, coaching / mentoring and human resource related offerings. Although it may have taken a different form, I believe that coaching and consulting was always the ‘end game’ and I would have still have ended up here.

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Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

During my consulting engagements at Foresight Plus , I get to see many smart people transforming themselves to be remarkable people. Think about the old adage – “if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” In this case, your core skills are the hammer and you now have to find the nail in their journey.

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Storytelling Hammer How To Skills 74

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 7, 2011

Warren Staley (Cargill) supports Habitat for Humanity with a hammer, a saw and a wallet. GE’s Jack Welch (pictured above) divides his time consulting with companies, travelling, golfing, lecturing at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and donating time and money to business education. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Leadership.

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CEO Golden Parachute Welch Human Resources 100

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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Report Edmondson Hammer Consultative 42

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2015

We are holding a hammer, waiting for the time when they are ready with a nail. She works as a coach, trainer, speaker, and consultant, and has authored 9 books including the NYTimes Business Bestseller Selling with Integrity. We just need to help them do it themselves. But this is a much more efficient way to do this. About the Author.

Influence 50

Influence Management Telemarketing Hammer 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Hughes traces the mythical 70% failure rate back to the 1993 book Reengineering the Corporation , in which authors Michael Hammer and James Champy stated: “our unscientific estimate is that as many as 50 percent to 70 percent of the organizations that undertake a reengineering effort do not achieve the dramatic results they intended.”

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Champy Hammer McKinsey Participative 8

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. Most were making hammers, or they were treating more complicated products and services as if they were hammers. For a long time, the corporation didn't much notice.

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Hammer Fashion Brand Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

Using experienced consultants can lower your risk. When the project is over and the consultants leave, the process tends to revert to its previous state. Accountability for sustaining the changes often isn't transferred from the consultants to someone in the organization. However, the push approach comes with complications.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Women on Business

AUGUST 1, 2012

Along with her partner and father Al Ries, the legendary Positioning pioneer, Ries & Ries consults with companies around the world on brand strategy. Laura’s first solo book Visual Hammer was recently released and is available now at Amazon.com or Apple’s iTunes.

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Ries Brand Career Hammer 233

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

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. Bill Treasurer is the Chief Encouragement Officer of Giant Leap Consulting. Rather than transform the entire organization, they likely focused intensely on transforming you.

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McGregor Middle Management Hammer Influence 278

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

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. I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Rather than a face-to-face consultation, for instance, they are done instead over telehealth platforms. It’s noticeable that the rapid adoption of health technologies during the Covid-19 pandemic has largely seen (relatively) new technologies bolted onto existing processes.

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Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 77

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.” When facing great odds or forced to deal with unusual or trying circumstances, few of us are fortified enough to act alone, without counsel or support.

Leadership 10

Leadership Hammer Short-term Simon 10

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&#. Mental Models: are, simply put, about assumptions and biases in our thinking. This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives.

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Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

To do that I encourage them to move down the continuum from transactional to consultative relationships. As the old saying goes, "When you sell hammers, every problem looks like a nail." Here's how: Help clients see issues they hadn't considered. The best salespeople I've worked with do an extraordinary job of this.

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Hammer System Course Process 8

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. years old by the time they go public, compared to an average of 2.8 years as recently as 1998.

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Innovation Productivity Products Technology 106

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 6, 2011

Hammered by Wall Street in 2008, the stock has finally crawled back to its 2006 highs. Formerlife: CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Nabob, Kraft), Strategy/Branding Consultant. Last week, legendary brand positioning expert Al Ries weighed in on Starbucks reported desire to move away from its powerful ‘specialist’ strategy. Search My Site.

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Ries Brand Hammer Marketing Strategy 122

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Alan Greenspan launched the all-PhD era in 1987, but his doctorate was of an unconventional sort — he acquired it in his early 50s from NYU after he’d left graduate school at Columbia decades before (Burns had been one of his professors) to start an economic consulting firm.

Banking 9

Banking Rogers Career Education 9

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. About the Author. Ann serves on the Board of Directors for JetBlue and P.F.

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Environment Covey Airlines Mission Statement 70

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.

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Consultative Content Hammer Quality 170

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In either case, the extra effort (loss to the do-it-yourselfer ) is both finite and real, just as the use of hammers to assemble parts at the Ford plant were finite and real to Frank Pipp and his assembly team. According to Genichi Taguchi, Toyota’s efforts with the Quality Loss Function date back to his consultation role in the early 1950s.

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

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 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Every hammer looks like a nail, as the saying goes. For example, I’ve seen some consultants whose specialty was team building, so it was no surprise that their findings and recommendations were all around improving team trust. Have a broad repertoire of solutions.

Engineering 15

Engineering Hammer Micromanagement Execution 15

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

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.

Planning 50

Planning Hammer Succession Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I’ve given passing thought to dieting, but other than a few points that have been hammered into all of us (e.g., “Too I consulted a nutritionist, and she advised that a gram of fat has nine calories, and a gram of carbohydrates only four! In my consulting, people tell me all the time, “We know…” whatever it is.

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Travel How To Information Technology Hammer 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.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

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. Are we on topic?

Productivity 100

Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer Participative 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. Brad Power ( bradfordpower@gmail.com ) is a consultant and researcher in process innovation.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15