In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

In terms of rectification, you have to look at the issue in the context of whether the problem is a short-term blip or the beginning of a long-term shift to your business or industry. This is a short-term aggravation, and though it may thrash earnings for the quarter or the year, it is not a restructuring of the marketplace.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Don’t hammer it out in an hour and expect recruiters to call you.”. Depending on what industry you want to get into and what position you apply for, you may need to tweak the sales keywords. “There’s nothing quick and easy about crafting a resume. Here’s a list of resume buzzwords for sales.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Anderson (New York City) 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 Joanna Cound (Managing Director, Government Affairs and Public Policy, BlackRock) written by Melissa J.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In terms of rectification, you have to look at the issue in the context of whether the problem is a short-term blip or the beginning of a long-term shift to your business or industry. This is a short-term aggravation, and though it may thrash earnings for the quarter or the year, it is not a restructuring of the marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

Every schoolchild learns that the industrial revolution began in England. Forests have been felled to demonstrate why England, and only England, had the culture and institutions to be the birthplace of modern industrial capitalism in the late 1700s. This was by any measure a primitive industry.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

My career from that point has almost always been in leadership roles within the retail, hospitality, finance and contact centre industries in Australia and overseas. Industries we have worked within include finance, architecture, recruitment, health, government and local council. Purpose = Building Success, Making a difference.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

 Sadly, as the old saying goes, when a hammer is the only tool in your arsenal, you start to see every problem as a nail.  Sadly, as the old saying goes, when a hammer is the only tool in your arsenal, you start to see every problem as a nail.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2011

The daily deal industry, still dominated by Groupon, is in the midst of rapid-fire innovation, presenting new opportunities — and some significant risks — for merchants.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Collectively, they're spawning a range of efficient new "as-a-service" business models in industries as diverse as accommodation, transportation, household appliances, and high-end clothing. Led by the writings of Michael Hammer and Tom Davenport , firms realized that they didn't need to organize work the way they used to.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Back in 1990, before Doug Woods, Peter Nosler, and Ron Davidowski (the "P" and "R" in DPR) hammered their first nail, they hammered out a "core ideology" designed to set them apart from their peers — and to announce their intention to challenge convention in their industry. "We

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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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.” Organizations differ in the detail of these sets, of course, depending on the complexity of the industry in which they’re located. Busá Photography/Getty Images.

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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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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

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Across all sales, we replicated our lab results: while the hammer prices of items with high initial expert appraisals soared with the number of total lots in the sale catalogue, lower-quality pieces suffered from the availability of choice. This is one interpretation of Apple's success in the fragmented personal computer industry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Uber’s global assault on the taxi industry is well known. All but one of these new matchmakers directly disrupted an existing platform industry. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media. Some new matchmakers do send traditional industries into a tailspin. Platforms are all the rage these days.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Last September some of the world’s foremost technology industry leaders met in Seattle with Xi Jinping, president of China. The nationalization of industry regulation was bad news for a startup that depended on local variance and gray zones. In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

Whether you’re looking to free up time, streamline, or generate more usable data , the industry’s best equipment will make that possible. Profit margins, budgets, and return on investments are all things that are hammered into business owners’ heads daily. Best Benefits.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 19, 2011

The Beer and Alcohol Industry - You will be hard pressed to find a beer or alcohol company that doesn’t portray consumption of their beverage as the key ingredient to a lifestyle of fast cars, beautiful women, successful careers, etc. Isn’t Starbucks using the same addictive business tactics as those industries listed above?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#. We seem to be hanging onto the models of thinking and practices of the industrial age for dear life! Mental Models: are, simply put, about assumptions and biases in our thinking. And it’s costing us big time!

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

But Hollywood is not just any industry. Everyone would like to be a player and Hollywood is littered with the wreckage of careers of people who looked at the entertainment industry and thought, "I would love to be a big shot and, anyhow, how hard can it be?" Why merely manage the channel when you can start filling it?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

A virtue that will be tested this off season as the league and the players' union try to hammer out a new collective bargaining agreement.) Few industry associations have been able to do this as effectively as the NFL. The league does more than create a schedule of games; it redistributes resources. (A

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

Our field research showed that some traditional physical stores were rapidly blending the best of physical, web, and mobile to serve their customers, while others were simply being hammered by the growth of e-commerce. The Census Bureau has reports galore on e-commerce, broken down by industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

How it will impact business, industry, and society. The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around. Insight Center. The Age of AI. Sponsored by Accenture. For AI to work in the enterprise , the goals of the enterprise must be the driving force.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

In just the past few years, there has been a global boom in the wind and solar industries, with wind power's generating capacity expanding dramatically and companies competing to offer free solar panels to households. American companies have had to slash their margins to compete, and their share prices have been hammered as a consequence.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

That notwithstanding, the reactions by regulators have in large part been minor wrist-slaps of the most egregious offenses and an assumption that these offenses were the product of rogue employees; not a logical extension of firm or even industry culture. NFL fans collectively gasped when the hammer came down.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. It’s pretty straightforward: Go on a platform connected to the industry you’re recruiting for, and then look for people who are using the platform to have smart, relevant conversations. What’s the trick?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

This can take many forms — an agreement that an employee can use office space and resources outside normal business hours to hammer out a side project over time, for instance, or a month-long sabbatical to let them dig into their passion all at once. These sorts of incentives take planning and should be incorporated into annual goals.

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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. Then hammer out a joint plan with them. Far too often, leaders who are closing or shrinking an operation take the old tough guy approach. Manage the closure or layoff like a project.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

To simplify Phillips a bit, the problem with listening overmuch to the conscience is that the conversation gets boring really fast—it’s just the same old deflating criticisms hammering away at us like propaganda. ” Or, “We set out to make the best industrial fasteners in the world. What can we learn from them?”

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It’s an argument that economists such as Robert Gordon believe carries little weight, and the problem is not so much that the various benefits provided by the technologies of the 4th industrial revolution cannot be captured, but that the technologies themselves are not utilized enough.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Friedman: There is a lot of failure in my book, but I think forecasting is a very maligned industry. Everybody talks about Silicon Valley being this bunch of entrepreneurs who created the computer industry in their garages. What follows are edited excerpts from that and a post-Ideacast conversation. Download this podcast.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

.” One of the ways the company is telling a more sustainable story to customers is through the use of the “Butterfly Mark,” a symbol — a first in the luxury industry — that “at a glance helps people identify brands committed to social and environmental sustainability.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. If you’re switching industries, don’t launch into job experience that the hiring manager may not think is relevant. Then tweak it for the position, the industry, etc.,” They are meaningless, obvious, and boring to read.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

Concerned about the company’s lack of focus, Wall Street hammered the Starbucks stock, resulting in a drop in share price of 28% in one day – a $2 billion loss in the company’s market capitalization.

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