Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds. The One Quality Every Leader Needs To Succee d.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Edwards Deming’s list of 14 points for western management : Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Slogans are a way to say you care about quality without actually demonstrating you care. If so, you should examine your management system.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

When the hammer comes down, are you calm, collected, candid, curious, direct, and willing to listen? We found that a large majority of managers and leaders buckle under pressure. Our latest research shows that your temperament in these crucial moments has a tremendous impact on your team’s performance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2011

When assessing daily deal innovations, merchants would do well to heed psychologist Abraham Maslow 's maxim (also called Maslow's hammer): To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. Simons Distinguished Associate Professor of Management at Rice University in Houston. Mackey, Jr.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

If you want your customers to care about product quality, give them a choice. But a consumer who is exposed to a dense set of alternatives (think now of the choice of coffee or yogurt at your local supermarket) concludes instead that like-minded consumers must care about even small differences in quality, so this consumer should follow suit.

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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. Other executives — the division manager or the head of the business unit — should be visible from beginning to end. Don’t reduce the focus on quality.

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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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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&#. How they manage conflict. Reply Gwyn Teatro November 23, 2010 at 11:53 pm Susan, Yes, the management principles of the Industrial Age are, if nothing else, remarkably tenacious. What do you think?

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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. ”

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 6, 2009

Shifting to experiment/learn perspective would most certainly take the ‘hammer’ out of the equation. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. Reply Gwyn Teatro July 7, 2009 at 3:50 pm Wouldn’t that be great? Thats nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Being smart is not exactly the same as being curious, but if you have both these qualities you might find yourself becoming easily bored with executing the same behaviors over and over. Expand your range of skills for reaching insights so that you’re not the person who sees every problem as a nail because their only tool is a hammer.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

Much of the modern business tools and systems are so intuitive that there is less manual input or operation than ever while maintaining excellent quality. Profit margins, budgets, and return on investments are all things that are hammered into business owners’ heads daily. Innovative Appearance. Best Benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

But with the rise of mass media (ranking everything—colleges, wines, doctors), social media (mean girls rule), and workforce management software, they stink even more. Probably the best known quotation from the eminent “management philosopher” Satchel Paige is “Don’t look back.

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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. Sullivan, Quality Progress, July 1984).

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Return on quality product. Big companies hammer their entire workforce to make certain that their customer satisfaction scores are high or higher, when they could be (should be) creating an internal training program that begins with the word wow, and progresses upward from there. Real profit created by exceptional team effort.

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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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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. Insight Center. Innovation in Cities.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

These are often the same clients who are closely attuned to the quality of their work experience, who find joy in flow and seek to create more of it, and for whom the introduction of industrial productivity levers feels stifling. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. William Treseder. Maura Thomas.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

These are often the same clients who are closely attuned to the quality of their work experience, who find joy in flow and seek to create more of it, and for whom the introduction of industrial productivity levers feels stifling. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. William Treseder. Maura Thomas.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Second, we resign ourselves to failure: Without more time, the quality of work will suffer. A “no” gives you the opportunity to prove to others that you can find creative solutions to deliver quality work with less. Without extra headcount, we’ll need to limit the scope of a project. Try something new.

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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 was observing this from a distance since a few weeks and his disappointment grew with each passing day.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

He instructed employees to take hammers in hand — not to fix the flaws but to destroy the imperfect products. Certain aspects of the process are inherently uncontrollable; once you start trying to stage-manage incidents for employees’ benefit, you’re drifting into tricky, manipulative territory.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

Twenty-four medical teams from four neonatal intensive care units in Israel were invited to a training workshop designed to improve quality of care. Half the teams received messages from a neutral expert who spoke about the importance of training and practice using simulations but did not comment on their work quality. Collaboration.

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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. 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. And it’s not just your company.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 28, 2017

It is estimated that 15% to 28% of every manager’s workweek is spent in meetings. One of the most frequent written complaints people make about their bosses is the quality of their meetings. Leader manages the process Every meeting has two things happening simultaneously. The leader needs to manage both content and process.

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