Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

Now, this might sound contradictory to Tip #1, but going through some slides is even more important these days when pitching remotely than before the current health crisis. Spend more time on this “killer slide” and hammer in the point. Tip #2: Use Your Slides in the Remote Pitch.

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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. link] LeadershipNews: A Leadership Crisis or a Branding Issue? 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.

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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&#. link] LeadershipNews: A Leadership Crisis or a Branding Issue? 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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

What I'd say "we" want is to escape the toxic tradeoffs of the industrial age — now savage dilemmas, choices between bad alternatives, that drive more and more of us into a sense of crisis, leave us feeling lost and unmoored in the human world. The funny thing is, the world has made explosive jumps forward to increased prosperity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Like many luxury brands, Krug was struggling after the 2008 financial crisis. Environmental exec Sylvie Benard comments that changing behavior can take a few years, and you have to keep hammering home the message and “find the right moment” to act.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

After the Russian financial crisis in 1998, LTCM imploded and lost $4.6 If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. No matter how advanced technology is, it needs human partners to enhance competitive advantage. It must be embedded in what we call the integrated strategy machine.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The result was the Fed-Treasury Accord of 1951, which McCabe hammered out with Assistant Treasury Secretary William McChesney Martin. He answered by splitting the Bernanke tenure into before the financial crisis and after. Then McCabe went back to Scott Paper and Martin took over as chairman of a re-empowered Federal Reserve.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

It was Abraham Maslow who gave us that famous observation — “when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” This – to borrow Maslow’s terminology – provides the policymaker with tools beyond just a hammer with which to fix problems. The path to prosperity for nations is complex.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Use a big hammer. By starting with a big hammer, the store would learn whether customers care about local sourcing. This type of practice has led to a “ replication crisis ” in psychology research. Companies experiment when they don’t know what will work best. The lesson? Let the data speak.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

The editorial page of the New York Times recently hammered Mitt Romney with a piece called " A Big Storm Requires Big Government."

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