Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Because her mentor, who happened to be her mother, stressed that message. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). When Steven Benson was starting out at Google, his first sales manager, Mark Flessel, stressed the importance of focusing on the needs of his customer’s business.

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Mentor Quality P&L Hammer 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

When the hammer comes down, are you calm, collected, candid, curious, direct, and willing to listen? We asked more than 1,300 people in an online survey to describe their leader’s style under stress and the impact of that behavior on their work. He saw his role as supporting people and developing talent.

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Team Management Stress Report 14

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 11

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?” You might also coach them on negotiation, stress management, crucial conversations, and mindfulness.

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Team Franchising Hammer Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Develop the facts of the case jointly with your counterparts. Koh stresses the importance of negotiating both with your head and your heart; connect emotionally with your counterparts and make airtight arguments. Negotiation is not usually an individual sport. Build a common fact base. Think outside your own box.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. But the downstream impact of making such a choice in a moment of stress or carelessness can be devastating. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? Because innovation requires it.

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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).

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Morale Conference Hammer Film 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. 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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Merchandising Retail GDP Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

They also stressed organizational learning (meaning, capturing the methods of Lean so that other parts of the organizations could adopt them). 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.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

If one approach isn’t working, try another rather than continuing to hammer away fruitlessly. If I have time, I’ll develop it into a more extensive outline (more progress). There’s no single tool that will help you develop laser-like focus that never wanders. Being flexible helps.

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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. If I have time, I’ll develop it into a more extensive outline (more progress). There’s no single tool that will help you develop laser-like focus that never wanders. Being flexible helps.

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Productivity Products Tips Self-aware 8

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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