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. For example, why not allow your wisdom workers to spend 20% of their time acting as internal coaches in the company? (As rawpixel/unsplash.
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
In a marketplace gone global, productive partnerships are more crucial than ever. Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. If for example, a sullen sales force refuses to sell your product, it will be your product not the sales force that your partner will blame. Don''t figure it out.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2014
In Japan, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down. For example, instead of thinking of it as blatant self-promotion, think about who else, besides you, can benefit from your efforts. For example, university professors who write books end up promoting their university in the process. In the U.S.,
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
Uber’s global assault on the taxi industry is well known. Microsoft Windows, for example, has been the dominant platform for users, developers, and hardware makers for more than 25 years. Taxis are a more mundane, and maybe surprising, example. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 10, 2011
An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers. For example, GE runs process improvement projects with Six Sigma Master Black Belts, Black Belts, and Green Belts armed with explicit financial targets.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 11, 2014
Chafkin relies on the nifty narrative technique of inverting eight entrepreneurship rules ("Think locally and globally – all at once," for example) to explain what went so terribly wrong. In this lengthy investigation of the company, writer Max Chafkin says founder Shai Agassi "made great Kool-Aid and then drank it all himself."
Harvard Business Review
JULY 9, 2014
For example, a critical and contentious issue in the Law of the Sea talks involved the economic and technical aspects of an emerging industry that would mine deep seabed “nodules” made of copper, cobalt, nickel, and manganese. For example, when negotiating the U.S.-Singapore Singapore Free Trade Agreement.
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