Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Few things are more frustrating than trying to take on a project without the right equipment or tools. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). So don’t just tell people you believe in them. Mentors Equip. Try setting up a tent without the poles. Or building a swing set without the nuts and bolts.

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Mentor Quality P&L Hammer 74

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 11, 2011

Home About Consulting Church Family Leadership Navigation: Home » Ministry » Grace Community Church » Costa Rica Report, Part 2 Costa Rica Report, Part 2 January 11, 2011 in Grace Community Church , Missions with 10 Comments Yesterday was our first official “work day&# at the Abraham Project. It was a long task.

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Report Edmondson Hammer Consultative 42

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. A roundtable conversation with our advisers. But in reality, it was more personal.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Few things are more frustrating than trying to take on a project without the right equipment or tools. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). So don’t just tell people you believe in them. Mentors Equip. Try setting up a tent without the poles. Or building a swing set without the nuts and bolts.

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Mentor Quality P&L Hammer 40

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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Process Innovation Hammer Resistance 11

Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

Many entrepreneurs get to 2/3 of the way through the slides and start talking about the business model and financial projections while I’m still won-dering exactly what their product does and what makes it unique. Spend more time on this “killer slide” and hammer in the point. He is also a venture partner at several VC firms.

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Tips Entrepreneur Hammer Venture Capitalist 320

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Therefore they don’t invest time and effort in developing these skills. When people develop an emotional raw spot as a child, they often have outsized internal reactions when that raw spot is rubbed in their adult life. Develop relationships with people who you trust to give you help constructive feedback.

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Succession Class Learning-by-Doing Teamwork 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

I've worked with a wide range of clients as a consultant and have seen too many companies hire employees they thought were top talent, only to watch them spend company time on personal passions and then walk out the door when their side projects were ready to launch. Sometimes it seems that everyone wants to be an entrepreneur.

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Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 9

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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Motivation Hammer Video Objective 8

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

It was a two week project, and it was one of the longest two weeks of my life. 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! I have absolutely no aptitude for carpentry. Because numbers I could work with.

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Hammer Learning-by-Doing Blog Video 250

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Depending on the person and the size of the team, it may be necessary for team members to perform multiple roles on a project. The person funding the project shouldn’t usually also be a designer on the project because their motivations may get muddled. Multiple Roles or Single Roles. Some roles also don’t mix well with others.

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Team Hammer Software Project 65

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Belvedere Vodka, a brand with sales in 120 countries, has pursued many large-scale projects to reduce its CO2 footprint. Charles Gibb, Belvedere’s CEO, says it made a strategic choice to invest in this project, even though it had a longer payback period than normal. LVMH’s approach is somewhat unique.

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Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

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. Task management. around its introduction.”

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Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 74

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. ” The company was already developing content, targeted specifically at recruits, that demonstrated its “culture and the type of company we want to be in 1, 5, and 10 years.” So venture out. physicians are members of.

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

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. So what is holding these engineers back?

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Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

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. But neither should you let financial concerns derail the project in its infancy.

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Environment Covey Airlines Mission Statement 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. It will get harder and harder for mainstream investors to not develop some strategies in this area. Drexler: Impact investing is an excellent tool to solve a bunch of very, very difficult problems. We don’t want to go there.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

They trained experts in improvement projects (" Black Belts ") who then drove initiatives that achieved large financial results. Many of those organizations then embraced Lean for different set of tools for improvement projects, tools that helped them connect project results to key strategic measures. Consider this example.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A “part of” perspective is likely when engaged in a home improvement project where connections are visible and immediate. Any effort required to adapt the molding piece, because of variation in its length – a little too long or too short – represents Quality Loss, a concept introduced and developed in Japan by Genichi Taguchi.

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

If one approach isn’t working, try another rather than continuing to hammer away fruitlessly. She’s much better served by an intention to “work on project” or “make progress on project,” particularly when she identifies discrete tasks and little milestones that can serve as indicators of progress.

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Productivity Products Tips Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

If one approach isn’t working, try another rather than continuing to hammer away fruitlessly. She’s much better served by an intention to “work on project” or “make progress on project,” particularly when she identifies discrete tasks and little milestones that can serve as indicators of progress.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Tips Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It’s a sign that our projects aren’t valued and our careers are stalling out. Without extra headcount, we’ll need to limit the scope of a project. We act as if our projects can’t be completed with the highest standard with what we already have — and that’s the future we end up making.

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Creativity Budgeting IPO Merchandising 8

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Government is like a sledge hammer. Many private corporation are building one project to LEED requirements to get certifed by the agency and then they are building all of their other buildings the same way without the LEED stamp of approval. It is only good at one thing, and the use of a sledgehammer is obvious.

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Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. What’s the problem?

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

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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Planning Hammer Succession Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8