Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. Goals are actually quite easy to set; the process is painless, quick, and costs nothing. An action plan might involve joining a health club, working out three to four times a week, and managing your caloric intake. Resist this temptation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

However, although their members can rent the (more urbane and green) Zipcar fleet by the hour and pick up their vehicle at a local parking space using a smartphone app, this is still a dedicated fleet, still inventory that the company has to acquire, manage and monetize.

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Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

Almost every process improvement initiative I've researched over the last three years in more than 50 organizations has been pushed from the top. These mandated-from-above programs include Lean Six Sigma initiatives with experts (" Belts ") in command, big IT implementations, and reengineering of major end-to-end processes.

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Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

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. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

In the process, they helped close the gap between who we were and who we were capable of becoming. One of the ways that a good leader can help bring about personal transformation is by being a Velvet Hammer. Transform yourself first There is no more powerful way to inspire others to change than to change yourself first.

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McGregor Middle Management Hammer Influence 276

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge.

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Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction. Beyond its predictive power, this approach also achieves speed, scalability, and evolvability.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. The CMO agreed, and the meeting took place. Because innovation requires it.

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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. “You have to think carefully about what to say and how to say it so the hiring manager thinks, ‘This person can do what I need done,’” she says. “I managed a team of 10” doesn’t say much. Further Reading.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

“This is the first time I’ve been through this process myself.” Ahmed accused Damon of throwing up roadblocks and using his power to undermine the sales department. Lance knew that as part of this process he’d need to examine his own leadership. “So what do we do with this info?” “OK.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This manpower should consist of teams built around the innovators themselves to help with things like marketing, change management and investment appraisal. Too often, we try and superimpose new technologies onto legacy processes, with this inevitably leading to underwhelming results. ” Variable outcomes.

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Innovation Productivity Products Technology 102

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). In some of these companies, senior managers were dubious about the claims.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. It could be that it attracts employees who care about this issue, or that it makes management more likely to stay in that organization. But then more pressingly, I think, he talks about the need for system change. But in reality, it was more personal.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Power gives the customer satisfaction award to an airline, what could the category possibly be? Customer Relationship Management business leadership business management buy gitomer buygitomer customer relationship management Jeffrey Gitomer marketing and sales strategydriven' Let’s get real here, when J.D. Least crappy?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

This feels awful,” and let that admission sit in your awareness without fighting it or using it to berate yourself, it loses its power to derail you. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. If one approach isn’t working, try another rather than continuing to hammer away fruitlessly.

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Productivity Products Tips Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

This feels awful,” and let that admission sit in your awareness without fighting it or using it to berate yourself, it loses its power to derail you. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. If one approach isn’t working, try another rather than continuing to hammer away fruitlessly.

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Productivity Products Tips Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

But the mental process of building an imaginary picture is complicated, and certain weaknesses can be interpreted as strengths, lending the image an aura of authenticity. Understanding this process can be advantageous for leaders who hope to motivate and inspire. No one was singled out, but the message was powerful nonetheless.

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Stage-Gate CEO Insurance Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It is said that when only thing you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Consultant was trying to nail the problems with the only hammer he had – the best practices. The boss continued, “Context is a powerful thing. You can endlessly talk about your knowledge, but unless mapped to a context, it has no meaning.”.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 28, 2017

Leader manages the process Every meeting has two things happening simultaneously. There’s the content of the meeting, the information, the debate, the hammering out of different points of view. Secondly, there is the process of the meeting. The leader needs to manage both content and process.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

They don't necessarily improve processes that cross functions — and processes must often be redesigned this way to improve the customer experience. Yet I see few organizations that have process owners. The process owners are supposed to be highly placed, respected, and connected to make things happen.

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