You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2013

Whatever the reason, to me, creating an environment that values candid and respectful discussion is a leadership imperative and a key to building sustainable organizations. So how might we go about establishing this straight talk environment? Principle #4: People are not punished for speaking their minds.

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Leadership Hammer Bureaucracy Environment 68

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

 Sadly, as the old saying goes, when a hammer is the only tool in your arsenal, you start to see every problem as a nail. John Hunter, Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog : Build an Environment Where Intrinsic Motivation Flourishes -  Important question: are you trying to fix (ie.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 25, 2011

Whatever the reason, to me, creating an environment that values candid and respectful discussion is a leadership imperative and a key to building sustainable organizations. So how might we go about establishing this straight talk environment? Principle #4: People are not punished for speaking their minds.

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Hammer Bureaucracy Environment Politics 60

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Buyers want to solve a problem in a way that causes the least disruption, and the last thing they want to do is bring something new into their environment. We are holding a hammer, waiting for the time when they are ready with a nail. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. All rights reserved.

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Influence Management Telemarketing Hammer 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2012

In order to move to Stage 3, the team must hammer out the performance standards and commitment to achieving them. Similarly, a major change in the internal or external environment will impact the team’s progress. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Points to Remember. All rights reserved.

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Team BHAG Hammer Customer Loyalty 58

CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

Being exposed to the business environment helped to drive me and you only have to speak to most employees to know that there is genuine opportunity to develop more effective leaders in most industries. generate, along with the increased self-awareness that makes the real difference.

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Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Building Personal Strength

JULY 6, 2010

Still, it was the kind of family environment in which a child could grow up to live a productive life. And the day before graduation, he slammed a hammer into one wall locker after another as he walked down the hall for the last time. Jason’s mom loved nurturing small children, which is probably why she had so many of them.

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Hammer Bottom-up Course Environment 76

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

Performance standards hammered out. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. 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. Focus on customers. Creating Teams.

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. Align your environment. Much of the time our environment, if not entirely responsible, is at least an accomplice in who we are, what we do, and how we behave. Resist this temptation. Focus is the key. Take immediate action.

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Goal Blog Letter Open-book 134

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Hughes traces the mythical 70% failure rate back to the 1993 book Reengineering the Corporation , in which authors Michael Hammer and James Champy stated: “our unscientific estimate is that as many as 50 percent to 70 percent of the organizations that undertake a reengineering effort do not achieve the dramatic results they intended.”

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Champy Hammer McKinsey Participative 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

Even if your corporate culture leaves a lot to be desired, managers can create a localized environment that inspires your employees to achieve peak performance. You can only create environment. The environment you want can be built on shared, strategic values and financial responsibility. You can’t force culture.

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Environment Covey Airlines Mission Statement 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

The initial vision involved embedding sensors and actuators in physical objects like UPS packages and factory machinery to sense the environment, transmit “huge volumes of data,” and facilitate new kinds of automation. trillion market by 2020 — lay in its ability to operate with little or no “human intervention.”

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Hammer Fashion Sample Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

As the Japanese proverb warns : “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” The salons offered a context that reflects many characteristics of workgroups: a socially dynamic, open environment where stylists worked both individually and interdependently. Those who stay often flounder without peer support.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 9, 2019

Do you adapt to your environment or are you stuck in your ways? Toxic waste has a tremendous impact on the environment. If you’re using a hammer when the job requires a screwdriver, you’re going to face troubled times ahead. The world is changing at a blistering rate. End the bad relationship. Know what matters most.

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Hammer Learning-by-Doing Delegation Follow-up 104

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Seeing compensation as the primary or only tool we can use to motivate high performance is like trying to build a house with only a hammer. Unfortunately, all this brought about was overentitlement and making it OK to use your feelings to waste time and create a negative environment.

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Motivation Hammer Video Objective 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. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? Unusually excellent leaders deliberately create high-risk, low-cost environments – a.k.a.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

To understand its sustainability journey better, I spoke with the company’s head of environment, Sylvie Benard , and the CEOs of two of its wine and spirits brands. As usual, short-term pressures on financial performance are a concern, and change takes time.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In medical environments where doctors don’t have many extra cycles, it’s not the best use of their time to have them look at every single data point from a given patient’s file,” the researchers say.

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Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 80

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

NFL fans collectively gasped when the hammer came down. It is not unlike destroying the environment. How about Commissioner Goodell on 'bounty-gate'? Star head coach Sean Payton: suspended for the entire 2012 season for allegedly letting this go on under his proverbial nose. There is no game if there isn't integrity in it.

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Hammer Rogers Letter Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

But here's the biggest difference in the competitive environment since Alex Trebek succeeded Art Fleming. These are Jeopardy's John Henrys except that they aren't going to die or even get a headache by digitally souping up their "hammers" when they compete with a Watson. Today's Jeopardy fans will be high on digital steroids.

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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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. Just as different environments call for fundamentally different approaches to strategy and execution , different strategies also call for different designs for the strategy machine. Don’t let technological capabilities dictate the problems you solve.

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

American companies have had to slash their margins to compete, and their share prices have been hammered as a consequence. has underwritten much of the technological innovation behind clean energy's progress. manufacturers, whose business models have been based on high margins.

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Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

business community, 4) the Singaporean government, as well as, 5) potential opponents of a free trade deal representing organized labor, human rights, and the environment. Congress, 3) key companies and trade organizations from the U.S. As a result, the U.S.-Singapore Singapore Free Trade agreement was successfully signed in 2004.

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Advice Hammer Seminar Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

In fact, untapped opportunity may be even more important as organizations seek to grow in this perpetually tough economic environment. As the old saying goes, "When you sell hammers, every problem looks like a nail." Surely, creating value in the sales process is as much about raising the bar as it is about solving problems.

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Hammer System Course Process 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

My colleague Meg Rithmire has shown that different cities in China can have very different regulatory environments. There’s also a saying in China: “The nail that sticks up is the nail that gets hammered down.” That’s a proven strategy; China is not one market for almost anything. ” Here is the takeaway.

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Marketing CEO Mass Marketing Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Part of its success is that the company supports a collaborative work environment and boasts transparent operations from the top down. ” In his family’s living room, his proud parents give him his “grandpappy’s” giant hammer.

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It’s important that the team leader embraces diversity in the ranks and does not see a culture developing where people who are different get hammered down until they conform. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Great design teams are carefully put together and managed. Consider leaving a comment!

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Team Hammer Software Project 64

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment. When process is a hammer, the risk is that everything becomes a nail. First, it’s easy to talk yourself out of a good idea. More importantly, it’s easy to talk yourself into a bad idea.

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Productivity Products Reis Definition 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Big companies hammer their entire workforce to make certain that their customer satisfaction scores are high or higher, when they could be (should be) creating an internal training program that begins with the word wow, and progresses upward from there. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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ROI Customer Loyalty Airlines Loyalty 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Of course, buyback proponents argue that this is in fact optimal behavior; a reflection of the fact that in today’s environment, American corporations don’t have promising investment opportunities, so returning the cash to shareholders is the right thing to do.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 25, 2012

BIGGER REALITY: If companies like Halliburton are able to sell hammers to the government for $6,000, somehow you should be able to get your price if you are within a few points or dollars of your competition. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Training Price Hammer Customer Loyalty 50

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

It is the tragedy that will certainly befall our environment if the extremists succeed in giving something like the Green Police the power the commercial showed us. Government is like a sledge hammer. The parasite in totalitarian government always ends up killing its host (usually millions at a time). 

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Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2016

Recruiting is like a hammer. If you’re building a house and the only tool you’ve supplied your framer is a hammer, then then don’t blame the framer if it takes five times longer than you’d like, and costs a bundle more than it should. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. All rights reserved.

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Planning Hammer Succession Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

I frequently see that situation echoed in my research : People who lack a sense of psychological safety — the feeling that the team environment is a trusting, respectful, and safe place to take risks — shut down, often without realizing it.

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Cooper Hammer Training Film 8

Great Results Team Building

MARCH 26, 2012

The integration of technology into the hands of our students has been a topic of much discussion, but it will never replace the importance of teacher teamwork or the environment that a quality classroom provides. 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.

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Teamwork Technology Education Morale 150

Strategy Driven

JULY 14, 2015

Does your current package – or a proposed package – meet your expectations for the new environment? Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. If the company is undergoing a major change, even though the role isn’t changing, something else IS changing. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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