Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Last week I had an old-fashioned, too-much-cholesterol breakfast at an out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere diner. Remember Abe Maslow’s famed line: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” The walls were adorned with ads from yesteryear. It entails choosing partnership over patriarchy.
Joseph Lalonde
FEBRUARY 7, 2014
Try writing in a new fashion. Take the hammer, break the mold. Show the world YOUR talents. Your strengths. Your dreams. If you’re molding yourself after a specific author, throw your current method out the window. Change your wording. Find a different topic to write about. Just change it up. Switch to a faster tempo.
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HR Digest
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
In my work life I have realized that like fashion, certain phrases and acronyms find favor in the workplace cyclically. Hammer it out” was another offender. And ignorant me hesitantly asked him what it meant. He looked at me as if I had grown another head and patiently explained the acronym to me. Followed by “think out of the box.”
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. Remember that it does not matter who is right, but that the customer is served in an extraordinary fashion. They are necessary stepping-stones in the process that leads to high performance.
Leading Blog
MAY 4, 2020
These days it’s become fashionable for entrepreneurs to put the team slide at the very end of the presentation, which is great for Demo days. If your biggest strength is your technology or IP differentiation, you better have a simple visual, which makes it easy to understand while also hammering home your IP is so important.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 16, 2014
Similarly, Google just enlisted Diane von Furstenberg to design fashionable Glass frames, while the Cupertino-designed Apple Watch will eventually be angling to compete with stylish wrist-worn fashions from Geneva. As we go about our business in the physical world, the distance between mind, body, and things fades away.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 30, 2016
So in an entrepreneurial fashion and with minimal budget, Steve and Carl created Ball Park Angus hot dogs after a casual “what if” conversation with Mike Clabby, the lead food scientist. This is in keeping with the Japanese proverb, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.”
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