Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Remember Abe Maslow’s famed line: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” They are charged with bringing specialized information to the partnership, data others might not have capacity or opportunity to acquire. They all depend on the leadership orientation of the leader.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Quite often, the reviewer doesn’t have all the information needed to do a full assessment and the reviewee feels frustrated or dejected because they don’t get acknowledged for the range of things they’ve accomplished. The reviewer comes in with a list of objectives the reviewee needed to achieve and then proceeds to move through the list.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 21, 2016

Here’s where it gets sketchy… When left to their own devices under stress, these hammer-dropping leaders will lack the emotional intelligence to influence those they lead. So it does work. As one respondent succinctly put it: Intellectual arrogance is like a termite to some leaders and networks.

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 24, 2013

The “Whack-a-Mole” game is one where you grab a large padded hammer - and you score points by hitting the plastic moles when they pop up their heads. Society holds that hammer high, and delights in crushing any head that sticks itself out above the crowd.

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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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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 15, 2020

Car documents : your registration papers, insurance details and license information should ALWAYS be in your car to prevent unpleasant confrontations with law enforcement agents. Repair information: always have a business card or the contact information of your auto-repair company so you are not left stranded.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2019

In closing, remember that the only chains and shackles that hold any of us back from any goal in life are those that we ourselves forge in the fires of doubt and hammer out on the anvils of lack of belief. For more information please visit, www.thewinningadvantagebook.com. Select goals based on your own needs, not on others’ needs.

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The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 12, 2010

For example, I can use a hammer to build a house or to attack my neighbor. In both cases, the hammer is just a hammer. And, at the same time, I think the client assumes responsibility for how they apply the information after they have learned it. The DISC model is just an observation about human nature and human behavior.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2020

Such incidents are common in the businesses that deal with mechanical tools that include, drill machines, hammers, wedges, saws, glass, and other sharp objects. But this happens to occupy plenty of office space and require safe handling to protect vital information in them.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2013

The longer we take to share information with each other, the less value it will have for us. Taking the hammer out of the communication toolbox allows for more open and meaningful conversation. Principle #3: Feedback goes stale. Serve while fresh. Ask permission… then deliver it when it’s fresh.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

As is always the case when writing my blogs, I hope that this information inspires you to think more about not only what you do but why you do it. It is how you use the information that the resources, assessments etc. Knowing why CoachStation exists has been paramount to my success to date. I am sure it will be in the future also.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 25, 2011

The longer we take to share information with each other, the less value it will have for us. Taking the hammer out of the communication toolbox allows for more open and meaningful conversation. Principle #3: Feedback goes stale. Serve while fresh. Ask permission… then deliver it when it’s fresh.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

However we do it, the key to successful personal mastery, I think, is to trust in the information we receive; to be curious and ask questions either formally or informally; to observe the impact we have on others when we interact with them; and to act on any new knowledge we get about ourselves.

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The Idolbuster

JULY 19, 2012

But the explanations are often wrong, especially when we do not have all the information. And to make things worse, if new information comes in, we try to make it fit it into what we already believe. They use hammers and nails to fasten their idols down. Their idols are nothing but wood from the forest. They cannot walk.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

Back to Apple, their products are easy to use and their informed employees can teach consumers how to use their products. Performance standards hammered out. If you are ready to stop playing victim to the times, Front Line Heroes will arm you with the tools you need to achieve sustainable business growth. Focus on customers.

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. Cory Posted by: Cory Harris | January 02, 2011 at 01:27 AM Chris: Thanks for the wonderful information. We take a look at ourselves and see so many areas for improvement that we are tempted to attack them all at once. Resist this temptation. LOVE your blog!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Hughes traces the mythical 70% failure rate back to the 1993 book Reengineering the Corporation , in which authors Michael Hammer and James Champy stated: “our unscientific estimate is that as many as 50 percent to 70 percent of the organizations that undertake a reengineering effort do not achieve the dramatic results they intended.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Hammer's thinking was very powerful, but I'd challenge that last point.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

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. Spend more time on this “killer slide” and hammer in the point. He is also a venture partner at several VC firms.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

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. Instead, they could leverage new information technologies to reengineer, reorganize and radically streamline their production and service delivery.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

When I grab a hammer to install shelving, the distinction between “hand” and “tool” recedes into the unconscious, while completing the job becomes the main object of my thinking; in function and thought, the tool is the extended hand when it works properly. Information & technology Internet Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

After hammering out today's criteria for success, we reached out to the organization globally for as many failed ideas as possible to reevaluate in today's world. Within just a few weeks, we had triaged those ideas using current information to identify three major new global platforms for development. Thousands poured in.

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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. Decision making Information & technology Operations' Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

However we do it, the key to successful personal mastery, I think, is to trust in the information we receive; to be curious and ask questions either formally or informally ; to observe the impact we have on others when we interact with them; and to act on any new knowledge we get about ourselves. Get Your Leadership BIG On!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

When someone grasps concepts quickly and has high standards for their own performance it can create difficulties when working with others who take longer to process information and pick up concepts. Teamwork can be frustrating for very smart people. This can be a surprisingly effective strategy for breaking out of negative thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Keep people constantly informed all along the way. Concerns about sensitive information are often used as an excuse for such behavior. You can protect information and treat people humanely at the same time. Make sure they’re informed and consider their needs. Then hammer out a joint plan with them.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

If so, you can be certain that the messenger’s priority is not bringing you the information you need: It’s protecting her own hide. To combat it they work hard to build a primary and insatiable demand for the unvarnished facts, the raw data, the actual measurements, the honest feedback, the real information.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation. That is, it’s junk data containing no valid information.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

Where is your device compensating for your informational weaknesses as opposed to amplifying your interpersonal strengths? These are Jeopardy's John Henrys except that they aren't going to die or even get a headache by digitally souping up their "hammers" when they compete with a Watson.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 9, 2019

If you’re using a hammer when the job requires a screwdriver, you’re going to face troubled times ahead. Please leave a comment and tell us what you think or share it with someone who can benefit from the information. People Change Only When Change Is Their Choice. Therefore, don’t wait for storm clouds to appear before you act.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

If your employees aren’t behaving well, and you’ve already gone through the trouble of hammering home the organization’s civility message, ask yourself, “Have I also equipped them to succeed?” Don’t just impart information.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

This is often done best over informal meals; in Malay, this is called “makan diplomacy.”. Koh stresses the importance of negotiating both with your head and your heart; connect emotionally with your counterparts and make airtight arguments. Think win-win.” Koh emphasizes that sustainability calls for the deal to be fair and balanced.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Seeing compensation as the primary or only tool we can use to motivate high performance is like trying to build a house with only a hammer. One problem that gets in the way is a mechanistic, instrumental view of the human beings who sit at our companies’ desks. “Why bother with him?

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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. ” It should consist of a descriptor or job title like, “Information security specialist who…” “It doesn’t matter if this is a job title you have or ever did,” says Lees. Make it readable.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

But although conventional due diligence for a deal involves deep market research and repeated rounds of interviews with founders and key customers, Correlation focuses on documentary information. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. Design appropriate to the aim.

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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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