Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

If you’ve done a good job of staying engaged with your people throughout the year, you shouldn’t have to use the annual review to deliver a surprise message or drop the hammer about something that didn’t get done. Talk about their work and personal goals and connect them with the goals and the work of your group as a whole.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

So before getting out the big hammer, think about what you really want to achieve. Setting impossible goals. ” The problem is that your team may not think that ambitious goal is even remotely possible, given the effort it took to get to X in the first place. . Goals are good, especially well-designed goals.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2019

Visualize your goals and then craft a plan for achieving them. High achievers: Identify goals. Whether they are called ambitions, purposes or aims, goals can help you live a meaningful, productive life. There’s a difference between goals and dreams. Goals are dreams that can be realistically attained.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 21, 2016

Think about it: what would a company be like without top-down leadership to set goals and priorities, direct resources and operations, plan strategies, and make sure those strategies are being implemented? So it does work.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

APRIL 8, 2014

And then he used a phrase to describe me that I cherish to this day: VELVET HAMMER I pride myself on speaking the truth to people, but I try to do it gently, to maintain the other person’s dignity and self-esteem. Who would make the best “velvet hammer” for you? The goal is to keep you on track with frequent touch-points.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is a guest post by Kona Shen , Founder of GOALS Haiti , mentioned here. I began traveling to Haiti as a volunteer in 2007 and moved here in 2010 to launch an organization called GOALS. GOALS uses soccer to engage youth in public service and education that improve quality of life and develop new leadership. In the U.S.,

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Daniel Coyle

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The reality is, most fall short of that goal. . The two went at it, hammer and tongs, for half an hour — a loud, energetic volley of argument and ideas and numbers, each side pressing its case, offering evidence, appealing to reason and emotion. Every group aspires to be the kind of place where the best idea wins.

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Clinton M. Padgett

JULY 1, 2021

Those targets are important, and the goal is always to meet them perfectly. While it may not be the conversation you want to have, it’s the conversation you need to have. Customers will always have targets in terms of scope and timing. Of course, this is easier said than done; but consider the alternative.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 4, 2018

“ Goal oriented,” “quick learner,” “problem solving.” Don’t hammer it out in an hour and expect recruiters to call you.”. Now it’s good to toot your own horn on your resume, but how are you going to brag about your sales abilities using common buzzwords. You need to make your skills exquisitely clear to win attention.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Hammer it out” was another offender. and if you thought using some catchphrases like “teamwork”, ‘how long is a piece of string?’ , “move the goal post” and “win-win” will set the ball rolling in a meeting (pun intended), then you are wrong. Followed by “think out of the box.”

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Tim Milburn

AUGUST 29, 2013

I have the same love affair with productivity and organizational tools as I do with hammers, drills, and mitre saws. The goal is productivity. Constantly switching apps or software actually works against that goal. And the biggest barrier to achieving my goal…is me. photo credit: Seditious Canary via photopin cc.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 30, 2011

Anderson for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Here is an excerpt from a profile of Mika Meyer (Partner, Morrison & Foerster) written by Melissa J. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.”

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Tony Mayo

AUGUST 22, 2009

Experimenters showed peasants drawings of a hammer, a saw, an axe, and a log and then asked them to choose the three items that were similar. If pressed, they considered throwing out the hammer; the situation of chopping wood seemed more cogent to them than any conceptual category.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 5, 2015

As the leader, they failed to provide any clear directions or consequences, and yet are ready to drop the hammer in disciplinary actions for a mistake. Every team needs a qualified and quality leader if their goals are progress and success. Don’t be that guy or that gal. Next, Be the Mean Between the Extremes.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2012

We will, but the rest of the tips won’t work as well if your employees don’t trust that you have their backs or you’re not using development as a hammer. Last, but not least, support your employee’s developmental goals with training, conferences, coaches, and other tangible resources. Treat every day as a development day.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

” One quote that never seems to be mentioned is this follow up in 1995, where Michael Hammer said: “In Reengineering the Corporation , we estimated that between 50 and 70 percent of reengineering efforts were not successful in achieving the desired breakthrough performance.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Just as anybody can use a hammer, only trained professionals can build a house. But if the goal you want to monitor doesn’t create a new URL, you need to track events, such as clicks, for example. The same principle applies to your digital strategy. Here is what happens when you choose to do it yourself with an online tool.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s. Hershman is the Chief Executive Officer of Hammer and Company. Without the diagram the equipment would be useless. About the Authors.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Your goal is not to just move the needle but move the needle using your core skills. Think about the old adage – “if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Think about the old adage – “if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

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RapidStart Leadership

JULY 6, 2017

To be re-active is to automatically react to the stimuli around you, the same way that gunpowder explodes, or your leg kicks out when the doctor taps your knee with his little hammer. They identify actions that align with their values and further their goals. There’s no thought involved. It just happens.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. –Ben Stein. All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. –John Stuart Mill. –Cecil B. — Paul Valry. –Anonymous.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 7, 2011

Bottom line, I love a challenge and I’m every bit as goal-oriented as I was thirty years ago. Warren Staley (Cargill) supports Habitat for Humanity with a hammer, a saw and a wallet. Former CEO of sports apparel maker Russell Corporation, Jack Ward puts his time and money into helping inner-city kids.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

If you don’t think you have a mentor yet, try looking at others who’ve achieved their goals and see what they learned from their mentors. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Few things are more frustrating than trying to take on a project without the right equipment or tools.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

Understanding your passions, why you do what you do and your core beliefs will help you understand not only who you are, but help to drive your future goals and direction. Not everyone can answer these easily, however. It is my story that I would like to share via an abbreviated version of Maddy’s case study questions and my answers.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

If you don’t think you have a mentor yet, try looking at others who’ve achieved their goals and see what they learned from their mentors. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Few things are more frustrating than trying to take on a project without the right equipment or tools.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

There is a proverb that says, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives. Mental Models : are, simply put, about assumptions and biases in our thinking.

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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. Also, team goals must become more important than personal agendas, which need to be congruent and in alignment with the group agenda. They are necessary stepping-stones in the process that leads to high performance.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

I achieved my goal by not my aim. That happens a lot, we honestly translate aims to goals. And then we do stupid things in the name of the goal get it the way of the aim. We forget the aim sometimes and put the goal in its place. Mike Tveite, Achieving goals but failing to achieve the aim.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2011

LevelUp , which launched in early March, offers a sequence of increasingly better offers from the same merchant to repeat customers — the goal being to make repeat purchasers out of daily-deal customers, who typically buy just once. Startups with new twists on the daily-deal model continue to emerge almost weekly.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

More broadly, they are anyone who influences others toward the achievement of goals. One of the ways that a good leader can help bring about personal transformation is by being a Velvet Hammer. Transformation will take less effort if it’s aligned with their personal goals and aspirations. Most leaders aren’t CEOs.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 6, 2009

That means they will do whatever they can to anticipate potential pitfalls that could get in the way of achieving their goal and work on mitigating these obstacles so that the way to the goal becomes less onerous. Shifting to experiment/learn perspective would most certainly take the ‘hammer’ out of the equation.

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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. Not every speaker will knock it out of the park, but all have the same goal: to impart some wisdom that will hopefully inspire the next generation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

However, I also believe that the effective deployment of AI in the enterprise requires a focus on achieving business goals. For AI to work in the enterprise , the goals of the enterprise must be the driving force. For AI to work in the enterprise , the goals of the enterprise must be the driving force. Of course you do.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

As the Japanese proverb warns : “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” For example, high performers bring expertise, experiences and connections that often translate into better team reputation, goal accomplishment and overall performance — all of which benefit everyone on the team.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

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. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand. Certainly, some customization and personal touches were lost.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Listen carefully to how candidates describe their current and future goals. Another flag-raiser is someone who has very specific goals. These sorts of incentives take planning and should be incorporated into annual goals. Entrepreneurial spirited individuals are people who want to learn, experiment, apply, share, and partner.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

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. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand. Certainly, some customization and personal touches were lost.

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