Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 24, 2013

The “Whack-a-Mole” game is one where you grab a large padded hammer - and you score points by hitting the plastic moles when they pop up their heads. Society holds that hammer high, and delights in crushing any head that sticks itself out above the crowd.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

APRIL 8, 2014

And then he used a phrase to describe me that I cherish to this day: VELVET HAMMER I pride myself on speaking the truth to people, but I try to do it gently, to maintain the other person’s dignity and self-esteem. Who would make the best “velvet hammer” for you? Someone who will be honest with you.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2019

Adopt good habits that center on self-motivation. In closing, remember that the only chains and shackles that hold any of us back from any goal in life are those that we ourselves forge in the fires of doubt and hammer out on the anvils of lack of belief. Visualize what you want to accomplish.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Let these smart thoughts inspire you and motivate you to power through whatever is blocking your path to success. If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. – -Winston Churchill. –Anonymous.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Most leaders know what strong motivation looks like. But many leaders have little idea of how to boost or sustain that level of motivation. Many leaders don’t understand that they are an integral part of the motivational ecosystem in their companies. Managers generally start out with the best of intentions.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

Understanding your purpose, what motivates you and most importantly using this knowledge to advantage is key to your success, both professionally and personally. I recognise it is not for everyone, however. How do you stay motivated to continue to do your best? Why do you do what you do?

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 7, 2011

These 5 characteristics plus ego and power are the very traits that motivate ex-CEOs in their afterlife. Warren Staley (Cargill) supports Habitat for Humanity with a hammer, a saw and a wallet. In addition, he enjoys his leadership role and the power that goes with it. Imagine how difficult it is for him to keep his ego in check.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

As a motivational speaker, my mentors (and I’ve had several including Jim Kouzes, Tom Peters, and Terry Pearce) had more confidence in my abilities than I did, and always looked for opportunities to shove me into the training and speaking spotlight. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that).

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

As a motivational speaker, my mentors (and I’ve had several including Jim Kouzes, Tom Peters, and Terry Pearce) had more confidence in my abilities than I did, and always looked for opportunities to shove me into the training and speaking spotlight. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that).

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

The best policy may be to avoid incentives altogether and focus instead on creating systems in which intrinsic motivation, cooperation, ethical behavior, trust, creativity, and joy in work can flourish. In those cases where the slogan is actually used as a hammer to blame employees when results disappoint is when it does cause damage.

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Goals must provide motivation 7. Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. Goals must be specific 2. Goals must be written down 3. Goals must be set in stone 4. Goals must be measurable 5. Goals must be realistic 6. Goals must be in line with priorities and values 8. Goals must be prominent 9.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

In other words, successful innovation requires motive, means, and opportunity. After hammering out today's criteria for success, we reached out to the organization globally for as many failed ideas as possible to reevaluate in today's world. All three key domains were aligned: motive, means, and opportunity.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. Besides, watching peers make money is far more motivating than a month of training and pep talks. There is no substitute for grass roots research. Don''t figure it out. Get out there and find out by talking to your partner''s customers and sales force.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

“There were catchphrases that had to be hammered into the head of the employees, just like advertising does to the general public.” “The shows probably motivated people, but it was also coming from a corporate culture that felt a sense of belonging. Morale Motivation Organizational culture'

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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.” Many of the most motivated employee and customer bases are so motivated because they see an element of community service in the work their companies do.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 6, 2009

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around. This well-educated, well-paid, and highly motivated individual will comb your organization looking for places to apply AI technologies, effectively making the goal to use AI rather than to solve real problems.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

I also ask direct questions like "What motivates you?" Entrepreneurial spirited individuals are motivated by, and can find success in, the everyday activity of the company and the opportunities their role affords to grow the business. and "What makes an individual successful?"

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The reason the Starstuck Virus is so deadly is that it ends up severely circumscribing both the economic potential and societal impact of entrepreneurship by suffocating the early-stage startup ecosystem with increased noise, increased distractions, corrupted motivations and misapplied of talent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The reason the Starstuck Virus is so deadly is that it ends up severely circumscribing both the economic potential and societal impact of entrepreneurship by suffocating the early-stage startup ecosystem with increased noise, increased distractions, corrupted motivations and misapplied of talent.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

In addition, using outside experts implicitly demonstrates management's distrust of the workforce, which is de-motivating. can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail. Further, a company can miss the opportunity to transfer knowledge from the process experts to its people.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As Wesley Yang wrote in New York magazine, Western society teaches that “the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” while Eastern society teaches that “the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.” ” More importantly, when Asians do act assertively, they may be penalized for violating the stereotype.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The person funding the project shouldn’t usually also be a designer on the project because their motivations may get muddled. It’s important that the team leader embraces diversity in the ranks and does not see a culture developing where people who are different get hammered down until they conform.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

” As Michael Hammer famously remarked in the Harvard Business Review in 1990, successful dissemination of technology often requires a reconstruction of the processes that underpin the way our organizations function. years old by the time they go public, compared to an average of 2.8 years as recently as 1998.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. ” You can supplement what’s on the page with links to your work but you have to “motivate the hiring manager to take the extra step required. If you’re going to tell a compelling story, you need more space.”

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 25, 2012

Overlooked of course is how the customer profits from it, and what the customer’s motive to buy it is. BIGGER REALITY: If companies like Halliburton are able to sell hammers to the government for $6,000, somehow you should be able to get your price if you are within a few points or dollars of your competition. for all product training.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Drexler: Now for the flip side, of course people and institutions in most cases are motivated by more than just financial returns. If you start seeing everything through the impact investing lens, it starts looking like you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail. We don’t want to go there.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

The key is identifying your best employees – your A Players – and spread their values by hiring people who share those values and motivate all employees to live those values every day. 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.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In other words, quality in itself has not been the primary motivation in Japan; profit is the main objective and quality (methods) is merely a means to improve profit…Of foremost importance is the new definition of ‘manufacturing’ quality as minimum variation from target.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

If one approach isn’t working, try another rather than continuing to hammer away fruitlessly. If someone else’s productivity strategy feels artificial to you, it probably won’t motivate you. Productivity strategies also lose their potential to motivate when they don’t feel meaningful.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

If one approach isn’t working, try another rather than continuing to hammer away fruitlessly. If someone else’s productivity strategy feels artificial to you, it probably won’t motivate you. Productivity strategies also lose their potential to motivate when they don’t feel meaningful.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Companies are complicated places; the different stakeholders all have different agendas and are motivated by different norms and incentives. The problem, I realized, was that the US company’s strategy of constant new product development was not aligned with what motivated our salespeople.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

Understanding this process can be advantageous for leaders who hope to motivate and inspire. He instructed employees to take hammers in hand — not to fix the flaws but to destroy the imperfect products. Low standards lead to low commitment, even for the most self-motivated employees; high standards are energizing.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I’ve given passing thought to dieting, but other than a few points that have been hammered into all of us (e.g., “Too Note that, even though I’ve not established a correlation in the data, my suspicion about fat intake is motivated by a compelling explanation of the underlying reality. I like to exercise and get plenty.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

But whether European politicians will be able to hammer out a deal. Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL, spoke to the challenge (and the tremendous promise) of motivating a new generation of employees who see meaningful work as a necessity, not just a nicety. Not competition or the war for talent — both more traditional business concerns.

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