Clinton M. Padgett

JULY 1, 2021

If you agree to an unrealistic customer request , you spend the entire project with your stomach tied up in knots, praying for a miracle to occur but fully expecting the hammer to drop when someone in senior management finally realizes you aren’t going to deliver. Every day you show up at work wondering, “Is this the day they figure it out?”.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

One definition of resonance is ‘a quality of evoking a response’ Your job is to feel for your audience — understand how they are absorbing the information you’re presenting. Stick to your topic and hammer all points of it — be prepared — anticipate most of the questions that will be asked.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The maxim “everything looks like a nail to a hammer” is an excellent reminder that every successful innovation effort relies on the people—and all their fears, emotions, and humanness—who must fuel it. Innovation is fundamentally about people; their assumptions, subconscious thought patterns, daily actions and habits.

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Innovation Hammer Workshop Delegation 120

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 7, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article contributed by Liz O’Donnell, founder and creator of the HelloLadies.com website, to The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.”

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Conference Hammer Leadership Career 80

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 5, 2015

As the leader, they failed to provide any clear directions or consequences, and yet are ready to drop the hammer in disciplinary actions for a mistake. Every team needs a qualified and quality leader if their goals are progress and success. Don’t be that guy or that gal. Next, Be the Mean Between the Extremes.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

GOALS uses soccer to engage youth in public service and education that improve quality of life and develop new leadership. I find myself hammering out emails at 11PM on Sunday with the TV on and my phone lighting up with messages. There are times when full-time electricity, internet, and air-conditioning would be nice. In the U.S.,

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Just as anybody can use a hammer, only trained professionals can build a house. Thankfully, a variety of online tools can let you create high-quality landing pages that are designed to grab users’ attention. The same principle applies to your digital strategy. Here is what happens when you choose to do it yourself with an online tool.

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Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 13, 2013

This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization. The result is slower and often lower-quality decisions. She commented, “It’s just not the same. I feel like a number. It seems like nothing I do will make a real difference in anything.

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Customer Intimacy Hammer Competitive Advantage Organization 133

Six Disciplines

MAY 17, 2013

This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization. The result is slower and often lower-quality decisions. She commented, “It’s just not the same. I feel like a number. It seems like nothing I do will make a real difference in anything.

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Customer Intimacy Hammer Competitive Advantage Organization 116

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2013

Taking the hammer out of the communication toolbox allows for more open and meaningful conversation. Good questions invite thoughtful answers, which in turn, increase the quality of conversations. Principle #4: People are not punished for speaking their minds. Principle #5: Everyone has something important to say.

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Leadership Hammer Bureaucracy Environment 68

Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. The One Quality Every Leader Needs To Succee d. I learned much from my teachers, more from my books, and most from my mistakes. –Anonymous. –Sir Francis Bacon.

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Succession How To Gilbert Learning-by-Doing 165

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“A product or service possesses quality if it helps someone and enjoys a sustainable market.”. Quality is defined by doing it right the first time.”. As a consumer, my introduction to the quality of the Toyota’s management system began in 1989 with the purchase of a Toyota pickup truck. Edwards Deming . Phillip Crosby.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 25, 2011

Taking the hammer out of the communication toolbox allows for more open and meaningful conversation. Good questions invite thoughtful answers, which in turn, increase the quality of conversations. Principle #4: People are not punished for speaking their minds. Principle #5: Everyone has something important to say.

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Hammer Bureaucracy Environment Politics 60

Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force. Slogans are a way to say you care about quality without actually demonstrating you care. To improve results the system needs to be improved.

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Deming System Incentives Short-term 28

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

JANUARY 3, 2013

Reputation systems and active supplier screening maintain quality, and the need for insurance keeps customers from bypassing the marketplaces. Led by the writings of Michael Hammer and Tom Davenport , firms realized that they didn't need to organize work the way they used to.

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Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

If you want your customers to care about product quality, give them a choice. But a consumer who is exposed to a dense set of alternatives (think now of the choice of coffee or yogurt at your local supermarket) concludes instead that like-minded consumers must care about even small differences in quality, so this consumer should follow suit.

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Productivity Products Retail Price 15

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.

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Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. However, there will be many other cases where using a decent predictive model to improve decision quality is good enough.

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Company Hammer Operations Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. However, there will be many other cases where using a decent predictive model to improve decision quality is good enough.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

” Tell them why they’re losing their jobs, whether it’s because of a drop in demand, changes in technology, or productivity and quality issues. Don’t reduce the focus on quality. Work with suppliers to ensure that service and product quality are sustained. Then hammer out a joint plan with them.

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Hammer Operations Quality Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Being smart is not exactly the same as being curious, but if you have both these qualities you might find yourself becoming easily bored with executing the same behaviors over and over. Expand your range of skills for reaching insights so that you’re not the person who sees every problem as a nail because their only tool is a hammer.

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Succession Class Learning-by-Doing Teamwork 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Henriquez says there was a deeper problem than just economic conditions: It had lost its connection to the founder’s 19th-century ideals about craftsmanship, humility, and quality. The quality of the crops, and the care of the growers, are key to the success of the business. ”

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

Much of the modern business tools and systems are so intuitive that there is less manual input or operation than ever while maintaining excellent quality. Profit margins, budgets, and return on investments are all things that are hammered into business owners’ heads daily. Innovative Appearance. Best Benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

When I ask leadership development clients to describe the type of motivation they’d like to see in their teams, they mention qualities such as persistence, being a self-starter, having a sense of accountability for and commitment to achieving results, and being willing to go the extra mile on projects or to help other team members.

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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. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. Reply Gwyn Teatro July 7, 2009 at 3:50 pm Wouldn’t that be great? Thats nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.

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Performance Review Learning-by-Doing Blog Hammer 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

When the hammer comes down, are you calm, collected, candid, curious, direct, and willing to listen? Respondents said that when their leader clams up or blows up under pressure, their team members have lower morale; are more likely to miss deadlines, budgets, and quality standards; and act in ways that drive customers away.

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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&#. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. Mental Models: are, simply put, about assumptions and biases in our thinking. Thats nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.

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Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The ticking sound the employer thought was entrepreneurial spirit was actually just an entrepreneur doing lower quality work on the company's clock while directing his best efforts toward his own interests. I'm a huge fan of entrepreneurs, and I am one myself. But as an employer, I'm a bigger fan of entrepreneurial spirit.

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Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

Similarly, if your business and its people take competing as Priority Numero Uno, they’re prey to obsessing over comparisons—our market share vs. theirs, our cost position relative to them, our comparative product quality. You don’t learn anything new. The corporate mindset gives way to “Why do we keep screwing up?

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Comparison Hammer Library Learning-by-Doing 8

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Larry Sullivan, from Ford, wrote an account of the visit he made to Japan in 1982 to “study quality systems at a variety of automotive suppliers.” Reference – Reducing Variability: A New Approach to Quality , L.P. Sullivan, Quality Progress, July 1984). – that it is in fact a totally different discipline.

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

N2Growth Blog

JULY 19, 2011

The Tobacco Industry - The tobacco industry has been publicly hammered for selling products that leverage the addictive effects of Nicotine, and even with all the known health hazards smokers face, in many instances the addictive nature of the product is greater than peoples ability to make a logical decision.

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Marketing Tactics Brand Ethics 343

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

They expect quality, and use it both as a selection criteria for purchase and as a constraint for sustained use. There are all sorts of contexts where speed is more important than this form of quality, and that means that this design approach isn’t for everyone or every situation.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 6, 2011

Hammered by Wall Street in 2008, the stock has finally crawled back to its 2006 highs. For me it's a symbol of quality, service and familiarity. Last week, legendary brand positioning expert Al Ries weighed in on Starbucks reported desire to move away from its powerful ‘specialist’ strategy. I fear a mistake!

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Return on quality product. 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. Real profit created by exceptional team effort.

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ROI Customer Loyalty Airlines Loyalty 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. So what is holding these engineers back?

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