CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

I started building CoachStation (website, social media etc.) I often say, “you need a hammer to build a house, but it is not the only tool”, meaning that it is a part of the story but you cannot rely on the tool itself to generate change. How do you use social media to your advantage? It’s massive!

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Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

You know this is coming so you brace yourself for the media frenzy this competitor will receive. As Sam defeated this challenge, he threw one of the hammers at Donkey Kong and said he had been waiting for this moment for a long time. You might notice a competitor releases a new product at the same time year in and year out.

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Cooper Leadership Porter Video 120

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.

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Innovation Hammer Maslow Discount 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Home Run Media’s Turning Point. Home Run’s media billings and its revenue, took off, growing more than tenfold in less than two years. Hammering home the point, the client added, “It’s probably a good time to terminate our contract.” Blickstein couldn’t simply leave them in the lurch.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

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! It was a two week project, and it was one of the longest two weeks of my life. I have absolutely no aptitude for carpentry. Because numbers I could work with.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

Recent research hammers this home, showing that our performance drops when we try to perform both encoding tasks (experiencing what's around you) and response selection tasks (capturing stimuli) at the same time. The problem is, we must choose between capturing these moments or viscerally experiencing them as they unfold.

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Document Venture Capitalist Maslow Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms. SHRM reports that 84% of organizations use social media for recruiting, and 82% of them use it primarily in the hunt for passive candidates. If so many companies are using social media, it must be effective, right? Well, not necessarily.

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kids could see what was happening more clearly and they went to work on it hammer and tong. If music matters less to the way young consumers define themselves it's because they have found other, more useful media to do the job. Music doesn't have to be the innovative media it was for Reynolds' and other generations.

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Early Adopters Hammer Innovation Charisma 12

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. Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink. Reply Gwyn Teatro July 7, 2009 at 3:50 pm Wouldn’t that be great?

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Performance Review Learning-by-Doing Blog Hammer 40

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. You don’t learn anything new. Which is precisely the danger to a business from too fanatic a concentration on competing.

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Comparison Hammer Library Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media. In the cities that have taxi medallions, their prices are plummeting, reflecting investors’ views that these old matchmakers don’t have a bright future. Uber and the other ride-sharing companies have disrupted them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The first type is an "idea guy" who saunters over from Hollywood ready to wow with you a next-generation social media analytics platform. A few months ago, College Humor released this brilliant caricature of the Starstruck Entrepreneur that sadly hit a little too close to home. These creatures seem to come in two types.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The first type is an "idea guy" who saunters over from Hollywood ready to wow with you a next-generation social media analytics platform. A few months ago, College Humor released this brilliant caricature of the Starstruck Entrepreneur that sadly hit a little too close to home. These creatures seem to come in two types.

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Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 18

N2Growth Blog

JULY 19, 2011

In thinking about this topic with respect to media coverage, I recall that a few years back the Indian government was attempting to force Coca Cola and Pepsi to divulge the formulas to their popular beverage products. that the social media platform affords? How about the social networking industry?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Even very talented people (the Weinstein brothers or Bonnie Hammer, for instance) make mistakes. As HBO CEO Richard Piepler explained during the Harvard Business School Entertainment and Media Summit , it's important to give talent creative freedom. It turns out that making entertainment is extremely hard. So does Netflix have an edge?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Compartmentalizing accountability for AI with functional leaders in IT, digital, or innovation can result in a hammer-in-search-of-a-nail outcome: technologies being launched without compelling use cases. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

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&#. Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink. Mental Models: are, simply put, about assumptions and biases in our thinking.

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Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

This can take many forms — an agreement that an employee can use office space and resources outside normal business hours to hammer out a side project over time, for instance, or a month-long sabbatical to let them dig into their passion all at once. These sorts of incentives take planning and should be incorporated into annual goals.

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Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 9

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

He argues that innovation has three core facets: Innovation generation , which is the sexy stuff you see all the time in the media. The new products, new technology, new startups. Innovation dissemination , which is the movement of these ideas and technologies into mainstream usage. years as recently as 1998.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

They go all the way to social media. Return on positive social media posts. Social media is the new “satisfaction” survey or report. There has to be a better way, and the person that creates it will make billions. The speed, accuracy, and outcome of handling a complaint. Complaints go WAAAAY beyond one customer.

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ROI Customer Loyalty Airlines Loyalty 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Buffer , an automation service for social media, describes that they posted pricing information before they even built their product: “The result of this experiment was that people were still clicking through and giving me their email and a small number of people were clicking on paid plans.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I think a lot more investment decisions will have considerations about impact and the transparency and accountability that comes with technology and social media is going to propel that. If you start seeing everything through the impact investing lens, it starts looking like you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

If youre on social media, youve seen them: ads dressed up to look (almost) exactly like normal tweets, Facebook posts, and LinkedIn updates from your friends and followers. Heres what weve learned about how to use paid social effectively: 1) Use free social media to beta-test your paid social ads. billion in 2012 to $4.6

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Advertising Media Audience Follow-up 9

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Government is like a sledge hammer. Food for thought (pun intended) about how media is skewing false direction. It is only good at one thing, and the use of a sledgehammer is obvious. However, when you are a sledgehammer, every problem tends to look like a cinder block in need of smashing. I was apauled when I saw this.

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Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2015

What form of advertising are we talking about, and for which products, in which media, over which time periods? Use a big hammer. By starting with a big hammer, the store would learn whether customers care about local sourcing. The reason is simple: Multiple factors go into answering these types of big questions.

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Hammer Advertising How To Customer Loyalty 8

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.

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Management Engineering Hammer Advertising 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2016

Recruiting is like a hammer. If you’re building a house and the only tool you’ve supplied your framer is a hammer, then then don’t blame the framer if it takes five times longer than you’d like, and costs a bundle more than it should. Recruiting Is Overused and Misapplied. It used to be the only tool a framer had to frame a house with.

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Planning Hammer Succession Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

presidential campaign, all the media attention shifts to the ground game: how many doors are knocked, and how many voters are mobilized in crucial swing states like Ohio. That's why online media has been such a perfect match for the world of political campaigns: though it takes time and strategy, it doesn't take much money.

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Media Marketing Politics Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

People working in education, the arts, and the media tend to vote Democrat, while those in construction, mining, and public administration (which includes military jobs) vote Republican. BONUS BITS: Hammer + Glass Ceiling =. SOME DATA FOR YOUR STEREOTYPES? How Your Job Predicts Your Vote (The Atlantic).

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