RapidStart Leadership

JULY 6, 2017

To be re-active is to automatically react to the stimuli around you, the same way that gunpowder explodes, or your leg kicks out when the doctor taps your knee with his little hammer. Build in some operating space. Channel that energy towards projects and efforts that need the kind of intensity they can provide.

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Covey Hammer Construction Chemicals 125

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

In his 1990 classic HBR article " Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate ," Michael Hammer argued that IT must drive radical process innovation. Hammer nonetheless argued for using the power of information technology to redesign a cross-functional process, then deal with the people issues.

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Process Innovation Hammer Resistance 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Looking at LVMH’s efforts, I’ll highlight three areas where I see great impact and innovation: managing carbon and energy, building a connection with customers around brand purpose, and working closely with suppliers. Managing Carbon and Energy. I’ll then discuss some of LVMH’s challenges.

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Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure. Essentially, when people stop believing they can win, some then devote their energy to how best to lose. Because innovation requires it.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

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). Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems. We don’t want to go there.

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