Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2019

For example, you need to be researching the market, constantly and extensively, whilst you continuously network with potential investors, walking into meetings with all the right facts and figures in your pocket. And if you can hammer home the use of your business in the current economy in only 30 seconds or less, the more’s the better!

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Hammer Self-aware Insurance Marketing 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

Performance standards hammered out. Enthusiasm and energy levels increasing. A lot of internal strife and no sense of mutual accountability. Task driven but a lot of individual agendas. Performance standards are not agreed upon. Stage 3 – Getting Behind the Game. Increasing ownership of those standards. Focus on customers.

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Team BHAG Hammer Open-book 64

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. Managing Carbon and Energy.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place. Because innovation requires it.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

But with the rise of mass media (ranking everything—colleges, wines, doctors), social media (mean girls rule), and workforce management software, they stink even more. Probably the best known quotation from the eminent “management philosopher” Satchel Paige is “Don’t look back.

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Comparison Hammer Library Learning-by-Doing 8

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). A lot of businesses have pursued social responsibility more out of their marketing departments or as some sort of charitable donation.

Insurance 9

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