Steve Farber

OCTOBER 28, 2010

They try to hammer out just the right words and phrases, and they argue for hours–days, sometimes–over the word choices. And then they stand back and wait for the people to change and the magic–the energy–to happen. Workshop-engineered vision statements by themselves don’t generate energy, love does.

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Tim Milburn

DECEMBER 7, 2011

If you’re going to serve others in a leadership role, you will have the choice to accept it or to take it. . Leadership is characterized by responsibility. The hammer is going to fall hard on you. ” Responsibility is a choice. Today, Rob Blagojevich awaits sentencing. Take the blame. Accusation.

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Hammer Crisis Energy Process 99

Next Level Blog

AUGUST 28, 2019

You’re probably familiar with the saying that if you’re good with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. That will be more about how you engage in terms of your energy and body language than the specific content of what you say. Should your energy be high or low, positive or negative?

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Audience Hammer Wilde Learning-by-Doing 21

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

companies are outperforming their overseas counterparts: Clean-energy technologies. The clean-energy field is evolving rapidly. The United States has played an enormous role in the expansion of these segments and is the world's largest generator of renewable energy outside of conventional hydropower.

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Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 11

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

Leadership and/or members are all screwed up. Performance standards hammered out. Enthusiasm and energy levels increasing. Shared leadership. Clarifying the rules and developing standards. Dependence is on the coach/leader. Coach/leader uses a directive approach. Stage 2 – Wish We Weren’t Here. Focus on customers.

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Team BHAG Hammer Open-book 64

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

More often than not, these brands are small not because they can’t grow, but because there aren’t enough financial resources and leadership mindshare left over to truly explore their upside. This is in keeping with the Japanese proverb, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.”

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Brand Hammer Advertising Budgeting 10

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

But Spence is adamant that behind every great brand is an authentic sense of purpose — "a definitive statement about the difference you are trying to make in the world" — and a workplace with the "energy and vitality" to bring that purpose to life. We exist to build great things," the ideology declares.

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Hammer Construction Advertising Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

This can take many forms — an agreement that an employee can use office space and resources outside normal business hours to hammer out a side project over time, for instance, or a month-long sabbatical to let them dig into their passion all at once. These sorts of incentives take planning and should be incorporated into annual goals.

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Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 9

N2Growth Blog

JULY 19, 2011

One of the charges being levied in the Indian High Court was that Coke and Pepsi products were addictive and unhealthy, Hmmm…More recently there have been a number of energy drinks and dietary supplements that have been pulled from retail shelves because of health hazards posed by addictive consumption.

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Marketing Tactics Brand Ethics 310

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

You could, Drexler and Noble write, take advantage of government subsidies to invest in affordable housing or renewable energy (something that, as they note, people have been doing for decades). If you start seeing everything through the impact investing lens, it starts looking like you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Great Results Team Building

MARCH 26, 2012

If I were building a house, I would prefer to have a shiny new nail gun instead of the hammer my grandfather had to use. If your people have enough technology, but need better communication, leadership skills, or a boost of morale, perhaps you want to consider an event to improve team motivation. But tools are not the goal.

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Teamwork Technology Education Morale 150

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 28, 2017

There’s the content of the meeting, the information, the debate, the hammering out of different points of view. Maintain energy Nowhere is the presence of absence of energy more visible and palpable than in the meetings that a leader conducts. We think it best for the leader to have an estimated time and to keep the pace brisk.

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Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer Participative 100

Strategy Driven

JULY 14, 2015

Does the new role fit that trajectory in terms of responsibilities, scope, subject matter, leadership opportunities, exposure or any other number of criteria? Remember to: Thank your boss for exhausting considerable energy on this transition and for investing personally in your career growth and development. Writing my own legacy.

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