Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

What she has done for youth and their families in Haiti demonstrates courage, compassion, purpose and leadership savvy few CEO’s of any age possess. Kona shares the starkly different definitions of ‘basic needs’ between the USA and Haiti and how it affects her productivity and impact…a lesson for us all!

Hammer 140

Hammer Long-term How To Bond 140

Lead by Adventure

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Will they need to know how productive it will be or how much fun they’ll have? Who can hammer out the details? The DISC test helps by showing you what each person needs from you and one another in areas such as leadership, communication, work environment, and more. Increase Productivity. Strengthen Collaboration.

Team 100

Team Letter Hammer Learning-by-Doing 100

The Recovering Engineer

MARCH 12, 2010

Effective Communication Skills: How to Quickly Guess a Person’s DISC Style Tags: Communication Skills , DISC Model , featured , Leadership Skills , parenting skills , people-oriented people , perception , task-oriented people , understanding , working with people Guy Harris describes himself as a recovering engineer.

FAQ 230

FAQ Hammer Engineering Tools 230

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

As Michael Hammer famously warned back in 1990, it’s no use applying new technologies to old processes, so in order to get the most out of AI and automation, jobs are having to be redesigned so that man and machine can work well together. Redesigning the business.

Supply Chain 64

Supply Chain Technology Hammer Report 64

Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 13, 2013

This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization. This small team was one of the most productive, spirited and lively groups I''ve ever known. She commented, “It’s just not the same. I feel like a number. Effective Communication. Timely Decision-Making.

Customer Intimacy 133

Customer Intimacy Hammer Competitive Advantage Organization 133

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.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Six Disciplines

MAY 17, 2013

This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization. This small team was one of the most productive, spirited and lively groups I''ve ever known. She commented, “It’s just not the same. I feel like a number. Effective Communication. Timely Decision-Making.

Customer Intimacy 116

Customer Intimacy Hammer Competitive Advantage Organization 116

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

Blog 124

Blog Human Resources Human Capital Talent Management 124

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. This meant from a young age I knew that leading, not just managing and working with people was something I would always pursue.

Self-aware 146

Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

If you ask customers what they want they will tell you I want the service and product for nothing. Back to Apple, their products are easy to use and their informed employees can teach consumers how to use their products. Leadership and/or members are all screwed up. Performance standards hammered out.

Team 64

Team BHAG Hammer Open-book 64

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. If the team becomes relentless in providing superior products and anticipating the changing needs of the customer, it becomes possible to become indispensable to your customers. Points to Remember. About the Author.

Team 58

Team BHAG Hammer Customer Loyalty 58

Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

For one thing, it’s harder for an investor to figure out what the heck your product actually does on a remote pitch. Tip #3: Don’t Spend Too Much Time on the Product. Recently, I saw an entrepreneur’s deck that was 30 slides long, with 10 slides about the product (features, roadmaps, videos, and screenshots).

Tips 320

Tips Entrepreneur Hammer Venture Capitalist 320

Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

First, let's cover the basics, which are given more depth of treatment in Orrin Woodward and my book, Launching a Leadership Revolution.  Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. It begins patterns that can form into productive habits. Goals must be specific 2. Focus is the key.

Goal 134

Goal Blog Letter Open-book 134

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

More often than not, these brands are small not because they can’t grow, but because there aren’t enough financial resources and leadership mindshare left over to truly explore their upside. Simpson quickly shifted her focus away from the hard candies line and launched new gummy products using existing excess capacity in a plant.

Brand 10

Brand Hammer Advertising Budgeting 10

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In a marketplace gone global, productive partnerships are more crucial than ever. If you think you can sell a partner by merely "demoing" your wonderful product you have not grasped this essential point. Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. Ask questions. Don''t figure it out.

Succession 284

Succession Early Adopters Hammer Price 284

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Sure, these and other organizations are built around strong business models, stellar products and services, and (of course) clever advertising. We exist to build great things," the ideology declares.

Hammer 15

Hammer Construction Advertising Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The team had dropped the ball on inquiries from several retailers interested in its products by failing to coordinate getting them into the company’s system quickly. The next morning, Lance was in his office when he got a text from Jhumpa, the head of product and merchandising: Can you talk? He needed to fix this. Nina laughed.

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

” Tell them why they’re losing their jobs, whether it’s because of a drop in demand, changes in technology, or productivity and quality issues. Work with suppliers to ensure that service and product quality are sustained. Then hammer out a joint plan with them. Address “What does it mean for me?”

Hammer 8

Hammer Operations Quality Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

“There were catchphrases that had to be hammered into the head of the employees, just like advertising does to the general public.” ” Songs were important devices for remembering a product’s key new features, like this one from the 1956 GE appliance show “It’s a Great New Line!”

Morale 8

Morale Conference Hammer Film 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

N2Growth Blog

JULY 19, 2011

It was at that moment I realized the real power of one of Starbucks key business drivers, if not their most critical business driver – Starbucks sells products that cater to peoples addictive tendencies. What about companies in the luxury products sector? What about other fast food outlets?

Marketing 310

Marketing Tactics Brand Ethics 310

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

These are the products and infrastructure elements such as solar panels and smart electricity grids that are reducing our reliance on petroleum and coal. American leadership in the clean-energy sector extends beyond solar and wind to natural gas, which is much cleaner than other carbon-based fuels and is abundant in the United States.

Energy 11

Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

When the hammer comes down, are you calm, collected, candid, curious, direct, and willing to listen? In the moment, you might feel like proving to the contracting officer that you’re angry, but is that productive over the long term? That would be ideal, wouldn’t it?

Team 14

Team Management Stress Report 14

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 6, 2011

Leadership. by John • June 6, 2011 • Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 2 Comments. Hammered by Wall Street in 2008, the stock has finally crawled back to its 2006 highs. Surely they’d be better off backward integrating or adding products/services that expand their world of coffee. . Leadership.

Ries 122

Ries Brand Hammer Marketing Strategy 122

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Abigail Noble: The other thing that we’re seeing is from the customer side — that they want things that have social impact and environmental responsibility and products that serve those needs. Whether it’s Warby Parker eyeglasses or Method home products or any one of a variety of other consumer products.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

‘Return on Investment’ (ROI) in business is predicated on the ability of the company to deliver as promised in product, profit, and its accompanying service. Return on leadership. Return on quality product. How’s yours? ROI REALITY: Do you want to deliver service that’s satisfactory or remarkable? Return on morale.

ROI 50

ROI Customer Loyalty Airlines Loyalty 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 25, 2012

First, it’s a heavy dose of product training. for all product training. MAJOR CLUE: All product training should be given at a customer’s place of business. This is where your product is actually used. Product training took place in the corporate classroom, where I maintain it is just south of useless.

Training 50

Training Price Hammer Customer Loyalty 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

The productivity that will be unleashed is likely to be nothing short of astonishing,” says Covey. We call this the Values Blueprint method of changing culture and we recommend you engage in a two-day retreat with a group of your best players to hammer out what your values should be and what behaviors best exemplify those values.

Environment 70

Environment Covey Airlines Mission Statement 70

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Government is like a sledge hammer. and a Winner Announced Blog powered by TypePad Member since 09/2007 Author Chris Bradys Leadership Blog Chris Bradys Home Page Chris Bradys Rascal Tweets Chris Bradys FaceBook Chris Bradys YouTube Chris Bradys Fan Page-Rascal Nation Chris Brady on LinkedIn

Politics 77

Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 28, 2017

A leader with accelerated speed and pace greatly increases the likelihood of a productive meeting. Our research on productivity improvement shows high correlation of improved productivity with the efficiency and effectiveness of meetings. Make Decisions A key to productive meeting is that decisions get made.

Productivity 100

Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer Participative 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

An employee of Haier, the Chinese manufacturer, told us that CEO Zhang Ruimin once shut down production after he found minor dents and scratches on appliances that were coming off a manufacturing line. He instructed employees to take hammers in hand — not to fix the flaws but to destroy the imperfect products.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate CEO Insurance Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. Innovators see their organization, and the world around it, as a portfolio of skills and assets that can be endlessly recombined into new products and busi­nesses.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. Air Products, Nokia, and Shell, among others, followed this advice and created top-level process owners. And they succeeded wildly.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

But whether European politicians will be able to hammer out a deal. Business leaders have no choice but to get involved in politics in a world where political gridlock is as real a threat to one's business as your competitor's new killer product or a hurricane bearing down on your warehouse.

Politics 8

Politics CEO Health Care Short-term 8