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. In the moment, you might feel like proving to the contracting officer that you’re angry, but is that productive over the long term?

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Team Management Stress Report 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. primary season. But that is far from true. ” A Review of Relevant Studies. .”

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Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We then virtually convened the project’s advisers for a roundtable discussion about what they viewed as the major issues raised in the interviews, and their own counsel for executives wishing to create long-term value through a sustainable business agenda. But then more pressingly, I think, he talks about the need for system change.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And we expect at least a portion of current AI piloters to fully integrate AI in the near term. With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply. The biggest challenges are people and processes.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

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. And yet that's not always our experience in the office. Remember that our collaborators are competent.

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Micromanagement Hammer Drucker Short-term 22

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.

Industry 8

Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Buying into Thomas Carlyle’s “great man” theory of history , we speak of leadership in solitary and personal terms. 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'

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Leadership Hammer Short-term Simon 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

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. Many executives are attracted to push approaches, especially senior managers who need big results fast. Which camp is right?

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Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

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

MARCH 20, 2017

A strong, transparent, and trust-driven culture plays a central role in driving a scale-down decision and in managing the process as the it unfolds. Hammering home the point, the client added, “It’s probably a good time to terminate our contract.” Managing Cash. Home Run Media’s Turning Point.

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Media Hammer Software Company 9

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

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. The productivity that will be unleashed is likely to be nothing short of astonishing,” says Covey. Even managers. Even long-time employees. Input = Output.

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Environment Covey Airlines Mission Statement 70

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

And: A diverse team is essential to survival, a point underscored by the impossibility of winning in D&D unless you have a warrior to beat things up and absorb damage, a wizard to fight magical foes and occasionally drop the hammer on something big, a cleric to heal your party members, and so on. Managing yourself'

Management 8

Management Engineering Hammer Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. A lot of other stuff that looked at stocks and looked at short periods of time didn’t find much.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2016

They’re not happy with the results that their recruiters are producing, or at the very least, they’ve come to terms with what their recruiters can realistically produce. Recruiting is like a hammer. This means that leadership development must be on a very short list of an organization’s top strategic priorities. Keep it simple.

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Planning Hammer Succession Constraint 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 14, 2015

Does the new role fit that trajectory in terms of responsibilities, scope, subject matter, leadership opportunities, exposure or any other number of criteria? Because ensuring a smooth transition trumps terminating your employment, you can negotiate a compensation package related to short-term employment, until the change is finalized.

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Strategy Company Succession How To 50