First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 23, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Elizabeth Harrin (London) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.”

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Hammer Technology Article Career 85

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

When it comes to belt-tightening, the astute CEO will target those areas or projects that don’t detract from the vision/strategy or the company’s competitive differentiation. When I was a CEO, I managed to squirrel away a “rainy day” fund for nasty business blips. At best, they are managers. At worst, they are expendable.

Short-term 161

Short-term Long-term Budgeting Hammer 161

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 21, 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 Sonia Thimmiah (Director UKI Sustainability Practice, Accenture) written by Melissa J.

Hammer 80

Hammer Career Planning Execution 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

written by Elizabeth Harrin (London) 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 DiAnne Calabrisotto (Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer, The Williams Capital Group, L.P.)

Chief Operating Officer 80

Chief Operating Officer Compliance Officer Hammer Compliance 80

Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm, says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence. Few things are more frustrating than trying to take on a project without the right equipment or tools. Mentors Equip.

Mentor 74

Mentor Quality P&L Hammer 74

Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm , says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence. Few things are more frustrating than trying to take on a project without the right equipment or tools. Mentors Equip.

Mentor 40

Mentor Quality P&L Hammer 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

When a change project falls a day behind schedule, if leaders and employees believe that successful change is an unlikely outcome, they will regard this momentary setback as the dead canary in the coalmine of their change initiative. ” In Hammer’s 1995 book, The Reengineering Revolution, he attempts to set the record straight.

Champy 8

Champy Hammer McKinsey Participative 8

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.” At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper.

Strategic Planning 14

Strategic Planning Planning Objective Seminar 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

In his 1990 classic HBR article " Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate ," Michael Hammer argued that IT must drive radical process innovation. Hammer nonetheless argued for using the power of information technology to redesign a cross-functional process, then deal with the people issues.

Process 11

Process Innovation Hammer Resistance 11

Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

Many entrepreneurs get to 2/3 of the way through the slides and start talking about the business model and financial projections while I’m still won-dering exactly what their product does and what makes it unique. Spend more time on this “killer slide” and hammer in the point. From BlueSky AI.

Tips 320

Tips Entrepreneur Hammer Venture Capitalist 320

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

The firm then tasked each employee with a specific project to cut costs, armed with their tools and training. They would have preferred a lower-profile approach that relied on service center managers — not Six Sigma experts — to do the heavy lifting of identifying inefficiencies and making changes. Which camp is right?

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

Many managers miss or underestimate the potential harm to high performers from their teams. Often with good intentions, managers set up high performers as targets for sabotage, aggression, and exclusion. As the Japanese proverb warns : “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.”

Team 14

Team Comparison Cooper Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Last week I arrived home from work to see my 8th grade son toiling away on a science fair project with his classmate Marc. In part, because as a parent, I'm always a little surprised when children do their homework without parental micro-management, but also because these two 8th graders made collaboration look like child's play.

Micromanagement 22

Micromanagement Hammer Drucker Short-term 22

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Other executives — the division manager or the head of the business unit — should be visible from beginning to end. Then hammer out a joint plan with them. Manage the closure or layoff like a project. Appoint an experienced, full-time project leader and a strong team. Set the tone.

Hammer 8

Hammer Operations Quality Project 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

MARCH 1, 2017

When I ask leadership development clients to describe the type of motivation they’d like to see in their teams, they mention qualities such as persistence, being a self-starter, having a sense of accountability for and commitment to achieving results, and being willing to go the extra mile on projects or to help other team members.

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Motivation Hammer Video Objective 8

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

It was a two week project, and it was one of the longest two weeks of my life. In my hands, a hammer was a dangerous tool capable of putting holes where holes shouldn’t be, and bashing fingers into submission. I didn’t need a hammer! I have absolutely no aptitude for carpentry. Because numbers I could work with.

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Hammer Learning-by-Doing Blog Video 250

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Depending on the person and the size of the team, it may be necessary for team members to perform multiple roles on a project. The person funding the project shouldn’t usually also be a designer on the project because their motivations may get muddled. Great design teams are carefully put together and managed.

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Team Hammer Software Project 64

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

This efficiency won’t just mean that the day finishes faster; it also means you can squeeze more tasks, contracts, and projects into a single workday. Profit margins, budgets, and return on investments are all things that are hammered into business owners’ heads daily. Best Benefits.

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Hammer Efficiency Tools Innovation 68

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Looking at LVMH’s efforts, I’ll highlight three areas where I see great impact and innovation: managing carbon and energy, building a connection with customers around brand purpose, and working closely with suppliers. Managing Carbon and Energy. I’ll then discuss some of LVMH’s challenges.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

If a person felt held back at school by being in a class with less smart kids, this frustration with teamwork can develop early — you know what this feels like if you routinely did most of the work on group projects, or got scolded for daydreaming during a class that was moving too slowly for you.

Succession 15

Succession Class Learning-by-Doing Teamwork 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

This is a point often hammered home by Harvard Business School professor and former Medtronic CEO Bill George, who is a vocal advocate for what he calls “ True North Groups.” Leadership Managing yourself' These are gatherings of peers and mentors with whom we can share.

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Leadership Hammer Short-term Simon 10

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Task management. It’s a process that goes back to Michael Hammer’s famous missive in the Harvard Business Review in 1990, in which he outlines the inevitable failure of any new technology so long as it is transplanted onto processes that were designed for a previous generation of tools. . around its introduction.”

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Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 73

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

.” A highly cited 2015 report on diversity in Silicon Valley by an Asian professional organization found that at five big tech firms (Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, LinkedIn, and Yahoo), Asians and Asian Americans are well represented in lower-level positions but underrepresented at management and executive levels. Implications.

Positioning 8

Positioning Leadership Diversity Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. As we moved from idea to execution, I asked another friend to take a key role in the project.

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Due Diligence Magazine SWOT Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. ” In his family’s living room, his proud parents give him his “grandpappy’s” giant hammer. ” message and think, Hey, maybe it’s time for a change.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. So what is holding these engineers back?

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

Even if your corporate culture leaves a lot to be desired, managers can create a localized environment that inspires your employees to achieve peak performance. And please realize: A Players don’t just come from management ranks; there are outstanding players on your front line that deserve a chance to help you. Even managers.

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Environment Covey Airlines Mission Statement 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. So here’s the money management industry. There is probably $50 billion of money under management in impact investing at the moment — that’s not going to set the world on fire for the large investment firms.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. In the late 1960s, Frank Pipp, an assembly plant manager for a Ford Motor Company factory, instructed his staff to purchase competitor’s cars. Deming is the core of our management.”

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

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 6, 2017

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. Your body can provide you with important cues to optimally manage your focus. You and Your Team Series. Staying Focused. Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus.

Productivity 11

Productivity Products Tips Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

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. Your body can provide you with important cues to optimally manage your focus. You and Your Team Series. Staying Focused. Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Tips Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It’s a sign that our projects aren’t valued and our careers are stalling out. Without extra headcount, we’ll need to limit the scope of a project. We act as if our projects can’t be completed with the highest standard with what we already have — and that’s the future we end up making.

Creativity 8

Creativity Budgeting IPO Merchandising 8

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

  Perhaps there is a third interpretation, one that would indicate that the advertising gurus over at Audi are geniuses because they managed to inflame a controversial subject to the point where a blogger would waste some of his precious time writing to his 3 loyal readers about a commercial!  Government is like a sledge hammer.

Politics 77

Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8