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Michael Hammer Sets the Agenda – Reminding us of the Business Basics

First Friday Book Synopsis

Customers no longer exist to buy your products; you exist to solve your customer’s problems. The company that remains self-rather than customer-centric cannot endure. In the customer economy, yesterday’s innovation is baseline today and obsolete tomorrow. Anticipation is an edge that every […].

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Choose growth

Lead Change Blog

That inventiveness was sometimes fun, sometimes frustrating, but productive. His hammers, screwdrivers, and pieces of wood showed me the power of choosing a growth mindset in lieu of settling for a fixed one. That’s when we’d let go of whatever we’d been doing and start trying new things. We always figured it out.

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Voice of Experience: Sarah Sherber (Barclays Capital)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Sarah Sherber (Managing Director, Head of Securitized Products IT and Cross Product Operatiins Technology, Barclays Capital) written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

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The “Piggyback” Approach to Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Consider how we have “the way” we do things: the way we make pasta, the way we use a hammer, the way we deal with our day-to-day problems. In business and in life, we tend to address problems in the manner we’ve been taught, failing to see adjacent opportunities and unconventional pairings.

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Break The Mold

Joseph Lalonde

Amazing products and works have been done because of them. Take the hammer, break the mold. Why We Try To Fit Into Other’s Molds. So much so that I tried to copy their styles at one point or another. Trying to make my life look like theirs. After all, they are successes. Children have grown into capable adults.

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You Should Be Your Own Muse

The Office Blend Blog

So being a bit closer to the visual arts, may help you feel more productive. Choose a vehicle that attracts you, whether it involves paint, pencil, ink, a hammer or a camera. I challenge you to discover 5 inspiring photographs or photographers at Unsplash. Note the subject matter and why you are drawn to it.

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Top Down Leadership Does Work, If You’re Stuck in the Industrial Age

Lead Change Blog

And top-down, hierarchical leadership styles can still be effective for managing an organization, especially those that mass-produce specific products. Here’s where it gets sketchy… When left to their own devices under stress, these hammer-dropping leaders will lack the emotional intelligence to influence those they lead.

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