Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Hammer's thinking was very powerful, but I'd challenge that last point.

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Steve Farber

OCTOBER 28, 2010

And it often develops like this: A group of senior executives–now known as the “Executive Team&# –goes away on an off-site, sits down together, and has a poetry contest. They try to hammer out just the right words and phrases, and they argue for hours–days, sometimes–over the word choices.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2012

Front Line Heroes : Battling the business Tsunami by developing high performance organizations (Volume 1) by Bruce Hodes. It is possible to develop and grow powerful organizations in challenging times-it just takes courage, determination, and actionable techniques that work. This is the win/win/win stage of development.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Until they figure this entire process out, they cannot buy. This is considered the pre-sales process. We are holding a hammer, waiting for the time when they are ready with a nail. I actually developed a pre-sales model that facilitates a buyer’s change management process call Buying Facilitation®.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

Front Line Heroes : Battling the business Tsunami by developing high performance organizations (Volume 1) by Bruce Hodes. It is possible to develop and grow powerful organizations in challenging times-it just takes courage, determination, and actionable techniques that work. A Normal Process for Team Development.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

I must confess that not being particularly academic in my own learning process, I found The Fifth Discipline a little dry. There is a proverb that says, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives. What do you think?

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. Goals are actually quite easy to set; the process is painless, quick, and costs nothing. You know at work I have to do this process and we work hard to ensure we cover all of your points. Resist this temptation. Focus is the key. Take immediate action.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

But corporate development and M&A groups within companies need to apply the same rigor and imagination whether they’re evaluating the shiny objects outside of their companies or the seemingly dusty objects they already own. This is in keeping with the Japanese proverb, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The researchers have developed a machine learning system to assess a task and identify whether it’s one that would be best performed by a human expert or technology. From here, you can begin to explore the way technology can help improve processes, either fully automating them or augmenting the human being. Task management.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Therefore they don’t invest time and effort in developing these skills. When someone grasps concepts quickly and has high standards for their own performance it can create difficulties when working with others who take longer to process information and pick up concepts. These views don’t come out of nowhere.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2014

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. We’ve begun a focus on Individual Development Planning – and it is my main cause in life to move names on the chart. She’s using good processes, tools, best practices, and is committed to the development of her company’s leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

AI technologies like neural-based machine learning and natural language processing are beginning to mature and prove their value, quickly becoming centerpieces of AI technology suites among adopters. The biggest challenges are people and processes. However, we are likely at a key inflection point of AI adoption.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

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. Develop a mutual mentoring program. Developing these could lead you to your calling. rawpixel/unsplash. So, go forth and build something with it.”

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Wiseman Mentor Hammer Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Today, IoT product designs generally emphasize process automation and ability to access a device from anywhere in the world. As cognitive scientists put it things like hammers became a part of the body’s “extended periphery” and are “functionally a component of the [subjects’] smoothly coping IDS.”.

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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! Your dad as much as anything probably just enjoyed being around you during the process! It was a two week project, and it was one of the longest two weeks of my life.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I must confess that not being particularly academic in my own learning process, I found The Fifth Discipline a little dry. 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. Great post!

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

In the process, they helped close the gap between who we were and who we were capable of becoming. One of the ways that a good leader can help bring about personal transformation is by being a Velvet Hammer. People will move mountains for you if in exchange for doing so they get to grow and develop.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

This starts in the interview process when you have the opportunity to articulate your values to prospects during the hiring process. So what can a manager do to ensure that people on their team or in their department treat each other well? Articulate values and set expectations. First, managers need to set expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

Thus, the new behavior on social networks is to develop, as one venture capitalist quipped , "a precious journal of moments to look at in the future.". Recent platform updates, such as Instagram's simplified uploading process and Facebook's new timeline profiles, are nudging us to capture even more of our daily lives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

As a practitioner of a design-led form of product development, and in my own research and writing about an empathetic approach to product design, I’m overtly critical of the Lean manifesto. ” The utility tools that emerge from this process exist as small, discrete pieces of functionality, solving discrete problems.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

As the market has matured, AI is beginning to move into enterprises that will use it but not develop it on their own. They hope AI can improve productivity, automate existing process, provide predictive analysis, and extract meaning from massive data sets. This is not what you’ll get if you hire a Chief AI Officer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

When I ask leadership development clients to describe the type of motivation they’d like to see in their teams, they mention qualities such as persistence, being a self-starter, having a sense of accountability for and commitment to achieving results, and being willing to go the extra mile on projects or to help other team members.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. An integrated strategy machine is the collection of resources, both technological and human, that act in concert to develop and execute business strategies. Unique tools, data, or process.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Develop the facts of the case jointly with your counterparts. For example, on a key issue under negotiation by 172 countries, Koh finally miniaturized the larger stalled process to include only Fiji, Pakistan, Argentina, and the United States, with their small-scale agreement ultimately expanding into a full consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

In Japan, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down. For example, university professors who write books end up promoting their university in the process. By thinking about personal branding as honoring the time and effort they put into your development, it can make the act itself feel more legitimate. In the U.S.,

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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. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

“This is the first time I’ve been through this process myself.” “I did talk to that leadership development firm last year,” he said. Lance knew that as part of this process he’d need to examine his own leadership. They certainly didn’t have time for infighting like this. Nina shrugged.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

A strong, transparent, and trust-driven culture plays a central role in driving a scale-down decision and in managing the process as the it unfolds. Hammering home the point, the client added, “It’s probably a good time to terminate our contract.” Home Run Media’s Turning Point.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). You instill process improvement into the corporate DNA.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. When we asked them about why they care about sustainability, they did mention the business case we’ve all been hammering home for years — and they do believe it.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? Thoroughly practical, day-to-day primer for achieving and maintaining their highest level of leadership, for today and for a lifetime.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. Strategy and business development executive with substantial experience designing, leading, and implementing a broad range of corporate growth and realignment initiatives. It should match what they’re looking for. And be sure to avoid clichés.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Pipp’s documentation of the striking difference in the assembly process within Toyota, by comparison to Ford, was to be found again in the early 1980s when teams from both Ford and General Motors began to routinely visit Toyota’s operations in Japan. . This system of feedback is much the same was what was explained by W.

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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. You can’t force culture. You can only create environment.

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