Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

GOALS uses soccer to engage youth in public service and education that improve quality of life and develop new leadership. We’re up to 600 kids per month with a staff of 18 local leaders focused on long-term, community-driven development. In the U.S.,

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Just as anybody can use a hammer, only trained professionals can build a house. Ideally, you want to reach out to a professional or develop your web building skills accordingly. Thankfully, a variety of online tools can let you create high-quality landing pages that are designed to grab users’ attention.

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Tools Outsourcing Marketing Content 132

Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 13, 2013

This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization. The result is slower and often lower-quality decisions. Yet many small businesses don’t consciously develop strategies that use their advantages. She commented, “It’s just not the same. I feel like a number.

Customer Intimacy 133

Customer Intimacy Hammer Competitive Advantage Organization 133

Six Disciplines

MAY 17, 2013

This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization. The result is slower and often lower-quality decisions. Yet many small businesses don’t consciously develop strategies that use their advantages. She commented, “It’s just not the same. I feel like a number.

Customer Intimacy 116

Customer Intimacy Hammer Competitive Advantage Organization 116

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2013

Taking the hammer out of the communication toolbox allows for more open and meaningful conversation. Good questions invite thoughtful answers, which in turn, increase the quality of conversations. Principle #4: People are not punished for speaking their minds. Principle #5: Everyone has something important to say. What do you think?

Leadership 68

Leadership Hammer Bureaucracy Environment 68

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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. Of course, the analytics processes had to be designed, developed, tested, and deployed by people.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. Of course, the analytics processes had to be designed, developed, tested, and deployed by people.

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Company Hammer Operations Process 8

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

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&#. And yet its usefulness is so often diminished because the vision is developed “at the top” of the organization and seldom shared by those who are expected to work toward its achievement. To me, a Shared Vision is just that…shared.

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Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Henriquez says there was a deeper problem than just economic conditions: It had lost its connection to the founder’s 19th-century ideals about craftsmanship, humility, and quality. The quality of the crops, and the care of the growers, are key to the success of the business. ”

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Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

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. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. Reply Gwyn Teatro July 7, 2009 at 3:50 pm Wouldn’t that be great? Thats nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.

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Performance Review Learning-by-Doing Blog Hammer 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

When the hammer comes down, are you calm, collected, candid, curious, direct, and willing to listen? He saw his role as supporting people and developing talent. Our latest research shows that your temperament in these crucial moments has a tremendous impact on your team’s performance. That would be ideal, wouldn’t it?

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Team Management Stress Report 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The ticking sound the employer thought was entrepreneurial spirit was actually just an entrepreneur doing lower quality work on the company's clock while directing his best efforts toward his own interests. Some of our marketing-oriented consultants, for instance, jumped at the chance to develop our firm's social media strategy.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 9

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. Lean proposes a “test and measure” process of product development. But what is lost? Leverage A/B testing to compare variations.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Reis Definition 8

N2Growth Blog

JULY 19, 2011

The Tobacco Industry - The tobacco industry has been publicly hammered for selling products that leverage the addictive effects of Nicotine, and even with all the known health hazards smokers face, in many instances the addictive nature of the product is greater than peoples ability to make a logical decision.

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Marketing Tactics Brand Ethics 305

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Larry Sullivan, from Ford, wrote an account of the visit he made to Japan in 1982 to “study quality systems at a variety of automotive suppliers.” Reference – Reducing Variability: A New Approach to Quality , L.P. Sullivan, Quality Progress, July 1984). – that it is in fact a totally different discipline.

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

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?

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

These are often the same clients who are closely attuned to the quality of their work experience, who find joy in flow and seek to create more of it, and for whom the introduction of industrial productivity levers feels stifling. If one approach isn’t working, try another rather than continuing to hammer away fruitlessly.

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Productivity Products Tips Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

These are often the same clients who are closely attuned to the quality of their work experience, who find joy in flow and seek to create more of it, and for whom the introduction of industrial productivity levers feels stifling. If one approach isn’t working, try another rather than continuing to hammer away fruitlessly.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Tips Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Second, we resign ourselves to failure: Without more time, the quality of work will suffer. A “no” gives you the opportunity to prove to others that you can find creative solutions to deliver quality work with less. We haven’t developed skills in resourcefulness. Try something new.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It is said that when only thing you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Consultant was trying to nail the problems with the only hammer he had – the best practices. The boss was observing this from a distance since a few weeks and his disappointment grew with each passing day.

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Consultative Content Hammer Quality 170

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

Twenty-four medical teams from four neonatal intensive care units in Israel were invited to a training workshop designed to improve quality of care. Half the teams received messages from a neutral expert who spoke about the importance of training and practice using simulations but did not comment on their work quality. Collaboration.

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Cooper Hammer Training Film 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. These efforts have paid huge dividends.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 28, 2017

One of the most frequent written complaints people make about their bosses is the quality of their meetings. There’s the content of the meeting, the information, the debate, the hammering out of different points of view. The following is a guest piece by Jack Zenger and Joesph Folkman. Secondly, there is the process of the meeting.

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