Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper.

Strategic Planning 14

Strategic Planning Planning Objective Seminar 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

In the six decades since Berlin's essay was published, hedgehogs have come to dominate academia, medicine, finance, law, and many other professional domains. In more straightforward language, a man with a hammer is more likely to see nails than one without a hammer. at all, only in some de facto way."

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Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The feedback in the 360-degree reviews was supposed to be anonymous. ” Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. ” “Is this about those 360 reviews? kuritafsheen/Getty Images. Doing Just Fine.

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The video managed to make our salesmen feel proud that they belonged to an “international family” selling the best-tasting and most environmentally friendly confectionary products in the world. We followed up with weekly review meetings to discuss progress, analyze problems, and hammer out solutions. Managing people Sales'

Company 8

Company Franchising Retail Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating. Lesson 1: Set clear boundaries.

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. But it’s dangerous and naïve to assume that better technology and more data guarantee better outcomes.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8