Clinton M. Padgett

JULY 1, 2021

Of course, this is easier said than done; but consider the alternative. If you agree to an unrealistic customer request , you spend the entire project with your stomach tied up in knots, praying for a miracle to occur but fully expecting the hammer to drop when someone in senior management finally realizes you aren’t going to deliver.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The maxim “everything looks like a nail to a hammer” is an excellent reminder that every successful innovation effort relies on the people—and all their fears, emotions, and humanness—who must fuel it. Innovation is fundamentally about people; their assumptions, subconscious thought patterns, daily actions and habits.

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Innovation Hammer Workshop Delegation 120

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

My pet peeves are: A level playing field, paradigm shift, plus ça change, matching synergies, bandwidth, and of course ASAP. Hammer it out” was another offender. REVEALED: ANNOYING OFFICE JARGON. Topping the list was “Give it 110 percent.” Followed by “think out of the box.”

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Hammer Survey Fashion Teamwork 78

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 7, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article contributed by Liz O’Donnell, founder and creator of the HelloLadies.com website, to The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.”

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Conference Hammer Leadership Career 80

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Of course, I don’t want to minimize Haiti’s long-term infrastructure needs, including electricity and internet. I find myself hammering out emails at 11PM on Sunday with the TV on and my phone lighting up with messages. Most days, communications and logistics take more forethought and I can’t always be reached.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Prior to a hurricane, for instance, you’ll need to have everything from hammers and nails to plywood and sandbags on hand to prepare your small business. And of course, you’ll need to communicate with your local police station as well as your local fire station in many cases.

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Hammer Tools Planning Follow-up 74

RapidStart Leadership

JULY 6, 2017

To be re-active is to automatically react to the stimuli around you, the same way that gunpowder explodes, or your leg kicks out when the doctor taps your knee with his little hammer. There’s no thought involved. It just happens. All too often, human reactions to conflict can be counter-productive. Build in some operating space.

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Covey Hammer Construction Chemicals 125

Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Whatever your protégé needs to succeed, of course. Mentors aren’t perfect, of course, but they teach hard work by working hard. Try setting up a tent without the poles. Or building a swing set without the nuts and bolts. Mentors Exemplify.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Whatever your protégé needs to succeed, of course. Mentors aren’t perfect, of course, but they teach hard work by working hard. Try setting up a tent without the poles. Or building a swing set without the nuts and bolts. Mentors Exemplify.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

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. She leveled the truth hammer. He gave up grad studies at Harvard, friendships, his life to pursue his vendetta. Mitch was dedicated to his craft. Annika saw his bruises.

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Leadership Hammer Team Process 127

Building Personal Strength

JULY 6, 2010

He and I were on the golf team together, and walking around the course we had ample time to get to know each other. And the day before graduation, he slammed a hammer into one wall locker after another as he walked down the hall for the last time. And most of them did. But not Jason. I knew him in high school.

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Hammer Bottom-up Course Environment 76

CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

As mentioned, they are long term relationships and friendships based on a shared belief in values, doing the right thing, giving natures and of course highly capable and skilled people. How did they become involved? generate, along with the increased self-awareness that makes the real difference.

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Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Steps 1-9 are the pre-sales process that focuses on change and determining if a purchses is necessary: assembling the right people, understanding the effects that solving a problem will produce, getting buy-in for a course of action – and then, determining if/what/why they want to buy. We just need to help them do it themselves.

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Influence Management Telemarketing Hammer 50

Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

If your biggest strength is your technology or IP differentiation, you better have a simple visual, which makes it easy to understand while also hammering home your IP is so important. Spend more time on this “killer slide” and hammer in the point. There is, of course, no one way to do a good pitch remotely during these trying times.

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Tips Entrepreneur Hammer Venture Capitalist 322

Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Perhaps the best course of action (and I can hardly believe I'm writing the words) is to line up with everyone else and set some 2011 goals for ourselves. Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. Maybe it's unavoidable, this gravitational pull toward New Year's Resolutions.

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Goal Blog Letter Open-book 134

Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Of course, every other sports team that lost also had such a slogan and didn’t succeed. In those cases where the slogan is actually used as a hammer to blame employees when results disappoint is when it does cause damage. It seems pretty silly to act as though the slogan of the winning team mattered.

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Deming System Incentives Short-term 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

But of course it isn't graffiti. As long as we were making, say, good hammers, culture didn't really matter. Most were making hammers, or they were treating more complicated products and services as if they were hammers. The slapping continues. The Beetle passes a mural (pictured) at one point. It must have cost a bundle.

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Hammer Fashion Brand Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” Organizations differ in the detail of these sets, of course, depending on the complexity of the industry in which they’re located. This will be conditioned, of course, by customer research.

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Strategic Planning Planning Objective Seminar 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Across all sales, we replicated our lab results: while the hammer prices of items with high initial expert appraisals soared with the number of total lots in the sale catalogue, lower-quality pieces suffered from the availability of choice.

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Productivity Products Retail Price 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Sure, these and other organizations are built around strong business models, stellar products and services, and (of course) clever advertising. We exist to build great things," the ideology declares.

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Hammer Construction Advertising Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. Of course, the analytics processes had to be designed, developed, tested, and deployed by people.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. Of course, the analytics processes had to be designed, developed, tested, and deployed by people.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

In my hands, a hammer was a dangerous tool capable of putting holes where holes shouldn’t be, and bashing fingers into submission. I didn’t need a hammer! It might take you longer than your own father of course. It was a two week project, and it was one of the longest two weeks of my life. Because numbers I could work with.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2014

Then, of course, you need to make sure your development plans are seen as real, but that''s the topic of another post. Their boss is always hammering, er…, asking them about it. I also think she’s hit the nail right on the head when it comes to seeing the need to begin emphasizing development , in addition to replacement charts.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Worse, it sets a precedent for this type of authentic behavior that over time can trap a leader into an expectation or pattern of always behaving that way – and over the course of years this is a soul-destroying situation. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what?

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Again, this is not done through lecturing, but rather through the course of conversations in which seller and buyer explore the impact of a given situation together to determine the implications for the business. Of course, at some point your, products and services have to come into the picture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around. Of course you do. For AI to work in the enterprise , the goals of the enterprise must be the driving force. This is not what you’ll get if you hire a Chief AI Officer.

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Technology Hammer Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

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?” One of the most crucial things for a manager to do, of course is to model the right behavior. You set the tone.

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Team Franchising Hammer Training 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Meanwhile, people who used to only look at Windows screens now spend most of their time outside of work — and of course at work — looking at mobile screens based on mobile operating systems. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media. Uber and the other ride-sharing companies have disrupted them.

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Technology Hammer Operations Magazine 8

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This general heuristic is, of course, extremely broad brush in its nature and it’s far from straightforward understanding just what it is that man and machine thrive at.

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Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 85

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Of course, none of that growth had come easily, and opportunities had certainly been missed. Of course I have. ” “Of course it is. “Besides, lots of experts say that too many people view comp as a hammer and every problem as a nail. They’d grown 22% the previous year and 28% the year before that.

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

There are now around 100 manual-intensive workstations in three of Toyota''s Japanese factories, where younger employees learn how to, for example, turn and hammer metal into crankshafts. Rollert takes us through those centuries, from a time when "the pursuit of self-interest was largely reviled" to (of course) Ayn Rand.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

This can take many forms — an agreement that an employee can use office space and resources outside normal business hours to hammer out a side project over time, for instance, or a month-long sabbatical to let them dig into their passion all at once. These sorts of incentives take planning and should be incorporated into annual goals.

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Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

The price collapse is great for consumers and utility companies, and it raises the prospect that American energy costs might someday reverse course, a turn of events that would do wonders for the nation's productivity. American companies have had to slash their margins to compete, and their share prices have been hammered as a consequence.

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Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Oregon's Attorney General John Kroger has introduced a bill that would strip the tax-deductible status from donations made to charities that spend less than 30% of their annual budget on services over the course of a three-year period. They're using hammers where scalpels are required. The law is intended to weed out scams.

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Proposal Telemarketing Hammer Report 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

“There were catchphrases that had to be hammered into the head of the employees, just like advertising does to the general public.” ” Of course, industrial musicals wouldn’t be an American story without enterprising businessmen looking to boost efficiency and increase profits. Patterson fired a certain Thomas J.

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Morale Conference Hammer Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

Our field research showed that some traditional physical stores were rapidly blending the best of physical, web, and mobile to serve their customers, while others were simply being hammered by the growth of e-commerce. We thought getting data would be pretty easy. The Census Bureau has reports galore on e-commerce, broken down by industry.

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