Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

There are now around 100 manual-intensive workstations in three of Toyota''s Japanese factories, where younger employees learn how to, for example, turn and hammer metal into crankshafts. This, in part, is what''s driving a new Toyota program requiring people – that''s right, actual humans – to build cars by hand.

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Hammer Automotive Morale Airlines 8

Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

In his book “ Leadership ” he talks about the transformational impact that occurs on performance and morale when a leader connects a follower’s sense of identity to the collective identity of the organization. One of the ways that a good leader can help bring about personal transformation is by being a Velvet Hammer.

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McGregor Middle Management Hammer Influence 278

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The story of the firing spread (as it always does) throughout the company, morale slipped, and the CMO never completely trusted his boss again. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? That guy’s an idiot. I want you to fire him, today.”. Because innovation requires it.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

This is one more reason to treat employees of an operation that’s being phased out with respect; you don’t want disintegrating morale to take a toll on quality. Then hammer out a joint plan with them. Work with suppliers to ensure that service and product quality are sustained.

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Hammer Operations Quality Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

An overweening focus on beating the other guy, gal, or outfit is just as bad for your psychological and moral health as it is for your business. But I would go one step further and suggest that avoiding competition is a condition, or more precisely, a frame of mind, that more should aspire to. You don’t learn anything new.

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Comparison Hammer Library Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

Perhaps we feel a sense of moral responsibility to pay our debts — but I'd suggest the greater, perhaps greatest moral responsibility is choosing to live. The funny thing is, the world has made explosive jumps forward to increased prosperity.

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Abell Hammer Construction Morale 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

A seller may help a client to see that a morale problem, for instance, which right now is only causing modest employee turnover, is having a tremendously negative impact on recruitment and productivity that will eventually become highly problematic. As the old saying goes, "When you sell hammers, every problem looks like a nail."

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Return on morale. 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. Many Happy Returns : Return on training. Return on leadership.

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ROI Customer Loyalty Airlines Loyalty 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Every hammer looks like a nail, as the saying goes. Leadership coaches use their favorite personality instruments to solve everything from poor financial performance to low morale. To avoid confusing common leadership shortfalls with serious pathologies, it’s critical to dig deeper behind symptoms.

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Engineering Hammer Micromanagement Execution 15

Great Results Team Building

MARCH 26, 2012

If I were building a house, I would prefer to have a shiny new nail gun instead of the hammer my grandfather had to use. If your people have enough technology, but need better communication, leadership skills, or a boost of morale, perhaps you want to consider an event to improve team motivation. But tools are not the goal.

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Teamwork Technology Education Morale 150

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

The editorial page of the New York Times recently hammered Mitt Romney with a piece called " A Big Storm Requires Big Government." Put bluntly, moral hazard arises as more economic activity is likely to locate in harm's way along the pretty coast. There are surely unintended consequences that come with such implicit insurance.

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Real Estate Incentives Insurance Hammer 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Smith, whose book on Goldman was just released, claims he was morally opposed to how the company treated its clients. BONUS BITS: Hammer + Glass Ceiling =. This is Urstadt’s insight into Greg Smith's very public New York Times breakup with Goldman Sachs after 12 years of employment. Could a Quota Boost Women into Europe’s Boardrooms?

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