Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In our most recent Breakthrough Innovation Report , Taddy Hall and I cite that 49 percent of the growth in U.S. This is in keeping with the Japanese proverb, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.” ” Ironically, even when leaders of small brands realize success, the organization can inadvertently hammer them.

Brand 10

Brand Hammer Advertising Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

We don’t mean to insult, but your routine actions on routine days are experienced by your direct reports as, well, routine. When the hammer comes down, are you calm, collected, candid, curious, direct, and willing to listen? Or would your direct reports describe you as upset, angry, closed-minded, rejecting, or even devious?

Team 14

Team Management Stress Report 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

If your employees aren’t behaving well, and you’ve already gone through the trouble of hammering home the organization’s civility message, ask yourself, “Have I also equipped them to succeed?” ” Leaders at the hospital realized that nurses, staff, and residents often failed to report bad behavior formally.

Team 8

Team Franchising Hammer Training 8

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. The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around. For AI to work in the enterprise , the goals of the enterprise must be the driving force.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

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. The Census Bureau has reports galore on e-commerce, broken down by industry. But it is hard to be sure.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail GDP Report 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Last fall, Forbes reported that Snapchat had begun using geofilters (overlays that Snapchat users can put on top of images) in an attempt to poach employees from other top startups. SHRM reports that 84% of organizations use social media for recruiting, and 82% of them use it primarily in the hunt for passive candidates.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Our survey, in fact, showed that early AI adopters have primarily bought the right fit-for-purpose technology solutions, with only a minority of respondents both developing and implementing all AI solutions in-house. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives.

Survey 12

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

It had been a long day at the company’s Birmingham, England, headquarters, and in the early evening the two were going over the evaluations of each of Lance’s direct reports. ” he asked, pointing to the report. “I did talk to that leadership development firm last year,” he said. Nina shook her head.

Case Study 14

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

“There were catchphrases that had to be hammered into the head of the employees, just like advertising does to the general public.” Though Mary Kay slowly developed its own quasi-religious conferences , complete with songs, by the 1980s.). Patterson fired a certain Thomas J. economy in the country’s culture).

Morale 8

Morale Conference Hammer Film 8

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. .”

How To 15

How To Career Sample Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

This was in a report called From the Margins to the Mainstream that did a lot to introduce impact investing to the wider investing world. Now Drexler and Noble are out with a new report, Charting the Course , that gets more into the nitty gritty of how one might go about investing with impact. We don’t want to go there.

Insurance 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t. This definition may seem somewhat generic.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

As a mathematical model developed by Yale psychologists Adam Bear and David Rand shows , people who are typically surrounded by jerks learn intuitively to be selfish and to not deliberate over their actions. Civility helps teams to function better in large part by helping employees feel safer, happier, and better.

Cooper 8

Cooper Hammer Training Film 8