Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2019

All it takes is an honest assessment of your abilities and creating your own definition of success. In closing, remember that the only chains and shackles that hold any of us back from any goal in life are those that we ourselves forge in the fires of doubt and hammer out on the anvils of lack of belief.

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Succession Hammer Goal Career 87

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Kona shares the starkly different definitions of ‘basic needs’ between the USA and Haiti and how it affects her productivity and impact…a lesson for us all! I find myself hammering out emails at 11PM on Sunday with the TV on and my phone lighting up with messages. In the U.S.,

Hammer 140

Hammer Long-term How To Bond 140

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In a timeframe in which mating parts in this car plant could not be assembled without hammers, Pipp directed his staff to purchase competitors cars and take them apart. His plan was to have the final assembly team disassemble these cars and learn first-hand how well they assembled.

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Deming Compliance System Engineering 31

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

Feeling that ‘something is definitely wrong here’ Feeling uncertain and incapable. Performance standards hammered out. Coach/leader uses a directive approach. Stage 2 – Wish We Weren’t Here. Feeling that this is not fun. Leadership and/or members are all screwed up. Task driven but a lot of individual agendas.

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Team BHAG Hammer Open-book 64

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

But Spence is adamant that behind every great brand is an authentic sense of purpose — "a definitive statement about the difference you are trying to make in the world" — and a workplace with the "energy and vitality" to bring that purpose to life. We exist to build great things," the ideology declares.

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Hammer Construction Advertising Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kids could see what was happening more clearly and they went to work on it hammer and tong. As they moved out of their parents' orbit, as they began to define themselves by dint of their own efforts, they repeatedly came back to the subculture "well" for what we might call "definitional materials." The innovation was now spreading.

Early Adopters 12

Early Adopters Hammer Innovation Charisma 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

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. On one level, probably not, since these products almost by definition are not an inherent human need.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

This isn't an instant strikeout, but it definitely should make you more curious about whether they see a long-term place for themselves in your business. Listen carefully to how candidates describe their current and future goals. Another flag-raiser is someone who has very specific goals.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

In the simple economics 101 definition, value equals benefits minus cost: V=B-C. As the old saying goes, "When you sell hammers, every problem looks like a nail." is frequently followed by an uncomfortable silence. Many consider themselves to be value sellers but few are able to articulate what that really means.

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Hammer System Course Process 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

As Eric Reiss describes , “The goal of such early contact with customers is not to gain definitive answers. And creating an MVP is fast, precisely by definition of “minimal.” But I don’t believe that startups, by definition, need to move as fast as possible.

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Productivity Products Reis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

I come out on the side believing that short-termism is a problem, but I can’t even view my own position as definitive. Then the markets hammer their companies for low top-line growth, telling executives that they won’t be able to maintain profit growth without revenue growth. ” A Review of Relevant Studies.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. Don’t let technological capabilities dictate the problems you solve.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

The results of these efforts have definitely paid off: In 2014, the average time to hire was 50 days — half the time of the previous year. ” In his family’s living room, his proud parents give him his “grandpappy’s” giant hammer.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating.

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Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

What follows are edited excerpts of our conversation: I sense that in the discussion about impact investing there have been those who have tried to narrow the definition. Michael Drexler: We’re very tight on the meta-level definition but we’re not tight on which sector you should invest in. And your idea is “No, no, no.

Insurance 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In other words, quality in itself has not been the primary motivation in Japan; profit is the main objective and quality (methods) is merely a means to improve profit…Of foremost importance is the new definition of ‘manufacturing’ quality as minimum variation from target.

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

A sharp, shared definition of innovation. To manage innovation in a systematic way, you have to have a widely understood definition of innovation. Coming up with a practical definition of innovation is harder than it sounds, particularly if the goal is to rank every new initiative or product by its “innovative­ness.”

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

But before you can be repetitive, you have to decide on the one message you want to hammer home – which means prioritizing. It continued to have that useful definition for the next five hundred years. When the word priority came into the English language in the 1400s, it was singular. What did it mean? The very first or prior thing.

Conference 9

Conference Hammer Participative Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Definitely worth reading in full. There's something dangerous about romanticizing "the idea of a nerdy, bespectacled guy in seclusion, hammering out a problem that others have yet to crack," says Matt Novak. She discusses claps as power, claps as freedom, and claps as nuance (and also highlights some of my favorite claps as GIFs).

Chief Executive Officer 8

Chief Executive Officer Hammer Competitive Advantage Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

And: A diverse team is essential to survival, a point underscored by the impossibility of winning in D&D unless you have a warrior to beat things up and absorb damage, a wizard to fight magical foes and occasionally drop the hammer on something big, a cleric to heal your party members, and so on.

Management 8

Management Engineering Hammer Advertising 8