Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. It is necessary for us to learn from others’ mistakes. – -John Updike.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Department of Labor Home Page Tom Peters, The Man, The Myth, The Legend, Change Guru TUTs Adventurers Club: Explore the power of thought & creative visualization to manifest dreams!  Sadly, as the old saying goes, when a hammer is the only tool in your arsenal, you start to see every problem as a nail. License. .

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

The best policy may be to avoid incentives altogether and focus instead on creating systems in which intrinsic motivation, cooperation, ethical behavior, trust, creativity, and joy in work can flourish. Distorting the numbers, a form of creative accounting aimed at looking good rather than doing well, is rampant in American business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

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. We get that our creativity begins with someone else's creativity. For a long time, the corporation didn't much notice.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Their actual advertising budget went down, but their spending worked harder for them as they had a hit innovation that created news energy and clarity around their super consumer—teen boys—to maximize their creative. This is in keeping with the Japanese proverb, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Led by the writings of Michael Hammer and Tom Davenport , firms realized that they didn't need to organize work the way they used to. Sadly, the Zipcar culture may not survive the merger.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Some types of success stem from creativity, but other types come from becoming an expert in a niche and performing a set of behaviors repeatedly. Expand your range of skills for reaching insights so that you’re not the person who sees every problem as a nail because their only tool is a hammer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Sebell, managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc., After hammering out today's criteria for success, we reached out to the organization globally for as many failed ideas as possible to reevaluate in today's world. This blog was co-authored with Jay F. Terwilliger and Mark H. a Boston-based innovation management collaborative.

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Innovation Hammer Discount Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Even very talented people (the Weinstein brothers or Bonnie Hammer, for instance) make mistakes. Netflix has so much data that they are going to be tempted to climb into the creative tent and start offering "advice." Doing so, will not only drive creatives away, but viewers as well. So does Netflix have an edge?

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Hammer Creativity Learning-by-Doing Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape…That’s what this degree of yours is — a blunt instrument. Think about how your company can start institutionalizing wisdom and leveraging it, along with creativity and innovation, for greater inspiration and success.

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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. Rely on your own creativity and ideas to get ahead, not on kissing up to people like me.” Rather than transform the entire organization, they likely focused intensely on transforming you.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

First, the world received Greg Smith's resignation from Goldman Sachs , delivered by the unusual and creative method of a New York Times editorial. NFL fans collectively gasped when the hammer came down. The contrast of the past two weeks could not be starker. How about Commissioner Goodell on 'bounty-gate'?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 19, 2011

Is this just creative branding and intelligent marketing, or are we merely sheep being led to slaughter? However I have also come to realize that my perceived addictive tendencies are clearly attempting to be preyed upon by creative and intelligent marketing and product development efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Second: Once they're hired, provide the entrepreneurially spirited with an outlet for their creativity and ambition. One way to do this is to offer employees some paid time off, after a certain tenure with your company, to focus on their passions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

And to which banner do you expect to rally the best, most creative employees: “We can make something great” or “Kill the enemy”? Such ambitions typically entail a focus on, even an obsession with, customers, clients, would-be users of your product. Someone out there that you can serve, in other words, not defeat.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Hammering home the point, the client added, “It’s probably a good time to terminate our contract.” From the day he had opened his business some 16 years earlier, he’d built a culture that valued transparency, trust, teamwork, and creativity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

It discourages the most creative thinkers. They're using hammers where scalpels are required. The fact that it charges 90% of donations doesn't mean it's making a 90% profit. It might well be making no profit. And the fact that charities will pay 90% in a competitive service market means the market will bear it.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It’s important that the team leader embraces diversity in the ranks and does not see a culture developing where people who are different get hammered down until they conform. Conformity is usually the death of the type of creativity that’s badly needed in great design execution. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

Concerned about the company’s lack of focus, Wall Street hammered the Starbucks stock, resulting in a drop in share price of 28% in one day – a $2 billion loss in the company’s market capitalization. Google is wise to learn from these two brand histories.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

We were careful not to criticize him when he used his creative abilities and things did not work out. But insensitive, hammer-like shots that are delivered in the name of honesty and openness usually do the greatest damage to people. It is a tough combination to achieve. But it’s also the ultimate in management.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

When process is a hammer, the risk is that everything becomes a nail. Our world is littered with both physical and digital garbage, and we need to encourage anyone in a creative, innovative setting to focus their efforts on changing culture for the better. Lean is a process, and so too is empathy-driven design.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. Would they be more open to new ideas?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

In the foreword to Built on Values , he says: “In order to be successful in a volatile world, you must unleash the goodwill and creativity of your people. Stephen Covey, author of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People , is a believer in Ann Rhoades’ method of creating enviable cultures.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

While this belief is true at times, it leads us to underuse our creativity and our determination to work with what we have. Think about how hard work, the creative use of existing resources, and collaboration with others will enable you to meet project deadlines, sales targets, or any other objectives. Instead, set higher expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

You already know they work, taking the guesswork out of the creative process. Not only are engagement rates bound to plummet if you hammer users on their home turf with repetitive messaging, but you may end up losing more business than you gain. 2) Take advantage of targeting features. Advertising Marketing Social media'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

I recently spoke at SXSW, a conference held in Austin, Texas that attracts thousands of creative movers and shakers.When I spoke, there was standing room only and a palpable energy. But before you can be repetitive, you have to decide on the one message you want to hammer home – which means prioritizing. What did it mean?

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

When leaders are civil, it increases performance and creativity, allows for early mistake detection and the initiative to take actions , and reduces emotional exhaustion. They also were more likely to go above and beyond their job requirements. It all starts at the top.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. Hiring and promoting for creativity. Candidates who get invited to the company’s headquarters participate in a multi-day project designed to test their capac­ity to think creatively.

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 26, 2012

If I were building a house, I would prefer to have a shiny new nail gun instead of the hammer my grandfather had to use. While, as a teacher, you may marvel at the capabilities these tools bring to your classroom, technology is still just exactly that – simply a collection of shiny new tools. But tools are not the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Great online efforts can thrive with creativity and brainpower, even sans capital. After getting hammered by the press and most commentators for his lackluster performance during the first debate, Obama's campaign wasn't going to take any chances during the second one at Hofstra University in New York. Novelty fades fast.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The first half of the ad hammers this home by saying: “Illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay, collecting social security benefits—skipping the line.” In a series of conversations leading up to the U.S.

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