Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In fact, it is simply allowing analytics to follow the same evolution that manufacturing went through during the industrial revolution. If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In fact, it is simply allowing analytics to follow the same evolution that manufacturing went through during the industrial revolution. If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost.

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Hammer Company Operations Process 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

So far, in my experience anyway, we have not been great students of his philosophies…or we have been great students but just, well, crappy at the execution part, proof perhaps that naïveté also lives in our belief that any of this stuff is easy. There was a time when everyone was jumping onto The Learning Organization bandwagon.

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Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are. What’s the trick? 1 form of self-expression.”

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

” is one example of an industrial musical, an elaborate Broadway-style show that was commonplace at company conferences in the U.S. ” Industrial musicals weren’t merely about camaraderie and a few chuckles. Spoiler: The professor’s work was sponsored by American-Standard.). “The Bathrooms are Coming!”

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Morale Conference Hammer Film 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. Here are two examples: Healthcare executive with over 25 years of experience leading providers of superior patient care. If you’re switching industries, don’t launch into job experience that the hiring manager may not think is relevant.

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How To Career Sample Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

But in my more than 40 years in industry, much of it in turnaround situations, I have become convinced that the tough guy approach makes no sense. Other executives — the division manager or the head of the business unit — should be visible from beginning to end. Then hammer out a joint plan with them. Set the tone.

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Hammer Operations Quality Project 8

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. Singapore Free Trade Agreement, Koh had a U.S. Congress, 3) key companies and trade organizations from the U.S.

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Advice Hammer Seminar Consensus 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It’s also useful when they feel that the project adds something new to their cache in the industry and is something that can go on their resume as a selling point. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Some studies show that long CEO tenures produce better performance (though that appears to be limited to more stable industries) and lead to better product-safety results. I would have expected executives to avoid any answer that would identify them with a socially frowned upon behavior: earnings manipulation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth.

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Media Hammer Software Company 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

Companies all over the country have implemented Ann Rhoades’ methods, developed when she was an executive at JetBlue, Southwest, Doubletree and others and perfected at her consulting company, People Ink. It should almost go without saying that those values should also be vetted in terms of responsible fiscal management.

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Environment Covey Airlines Mission Statement 70

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Edwards Deming to several dozen executives in Japan in 1950. These efforts are often aligned through a non-linear process improvement cycle that resembles the hand drawn version of this figure, which Deming shared with Japanese executives long before the aforementioned discoveries by Frank Pipp and Larry Sullivan.

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Not long ago, I received a call from an HR manager at a large corporation seeking an executive coach for one of their senior leaders. I’d heard from the company’s HR manager that this executive was especially cruel toward one colleague. Every hammer looks like a nail, as the saying goes. Jim Whitehurst.

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Engineering Hammer Micromanagement Execution 15

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Government is like a sledge hammer. What a surprise, with former Monsanto executive Vilsek as the Secretary of Agriculture. Thanks Posted by: Marty Weasner | February 10, 2010 at 06:29 AM Chris, I have worked in the construction industry for a while and the trend there is to go green by complying with LEED guidelines for buildings.

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Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. So what is holding these engineers back?

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Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

And: A diverse team is essential to survival, a point underscored by the impossibility of winning in D&D unless you have a warrior to beat things up and absorb damage, a wizard to fight magical foes and occasionally drop the hammer on something big, a cleric to heal your party members, and so on. Cho is facing a litany of challenges.

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Management Engineering Hammer Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Every day, senior executives get bombarded with ideas—and most of them are either woefully underdeveloped or downright batty. Within any industry, mental models tend to converge over time. Executives read the same trade magazines, go to the same conferences, and talk to the same consultants.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 28, 2017

There’s the content of the meeting, the information, the debate, the hammering out of different points of view. This blog is adapted from Chapter 7 of “ Speed: How Leaders Accelerate Successful Execution ” by John Zenger and Joseph Folkman. We think it best for the leader to have an estimated time and to keep the pace brisk.

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