First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Here is an excerpt from an article written by Melissa J. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.”

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Hammer Article Career Planning 80

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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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Hammer Innovation Tactics System 23

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Only when the rough patch is game-changing should the CEO review the company’s strategic intent. When business goes sour, whether short or long-term, the organization’s most senior people need to step up and offer innovative solutions to the issues hammering the top and bottom-line. Those who fail to do this are not leaders.

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Short-term Long-term Budgeting Hammer 161

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s. Hershman is the Chief Executive Officer of Hammer and Company. Without the diagram the equipment would be useless. About the Authors.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

 Sadly, as the old saying goes, when a hammer is the only tool in your arsenal, you start to see every problem as a nail.  Sadly, as the old saying goes, when a hammer is the only tool in your arsenal, you start to see every problem as a nail.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

After reviewing the tapes of the attack, he realized the attack was based on a video game. 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. It’s time to reevaluate your life. You have potential. Sam confirmed this to the President.

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Cooper Leadership Porter Video 120

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 24, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brad Power for the Harvard Business Review blog (March 7, 2011). To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * When they set out to [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 16, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jeffrey Pfeffer for Harvard Business Review‘s “The Conversation&# series.

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Review Article Resources Organizational Behavior 80

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Hughes traces the mythical 70% failure rate back to the 1993 book Reengineering the Corporation , in which authors Michael Hammer and James Champy stated: “our unscientific estimate is that as many as 50 percent to 70 percent of the organizations that undertake a reengineering effort do not achieve the dramatic results they intended.”

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Champy Hammer McKinsey Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” ” By reviewing its materials, we can construe the company’s position on this as: Safety is paramount, and our cars are among the most advanced, reliable, and safest on the road.

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Strategic Planning Planning Objective Seminar 14

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

MAY 15, 2012

In his 1990 classic HBR article " Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate ," Michael Hammer argued that IT must drive radical process innovation. Hammer nonetheless argued for using the power of information technology to redesign a cross-functional process, then deal with the people issues.

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Process Innovation Hammer Resistance 12

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 6, 2009

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Workplace Democracy – A Genie in A Bottle The Dreaded Performance Review → July 6, 2009 · 9:36 pm ↓ Jump to Comments Failure, the Other “F&# Word Failure. I don’t like it. Thanks for posting this!

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Performance Review Learning-by-Doing Blog Hammer 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2017

As the Japanese proverb warns : “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” One approach might be to create a more balanced performance review system that values team members’ contributions beyond task accomplishment — the dimension that most favors high performers.

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Team Comparison Cooper Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

This is in keeping with the Japanese proverb, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.” ” Ironically, even when leaders of small brands realize success, the organization can inadvertently hammer them. Equally important, if less obvious, is the need to protect the leader from success, as well.

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Brand Hammer Advertising Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

As long as we were making, say, good hammers, culture didn't really matter. Most were making hammers, or they were treating more complicated products and services as if they were hammers. The American corporation has had a long and complicated relationship with culture. For a long time, the corporation didn't much notice.

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Hammer Fashion Brand Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

If your employees aren’t behaving well, and you’ve already gone through the trouble of hammering home the organization’s civility message, ask yourself, “Have I also equipped them to succeed?” A coach who reviews fundamental concepts and expectations must also be ready to hold employees accountable.

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Team Franchising Hammer Training 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape…That’s what this degree of yours is — a blunt instrument. In preparation, I studied NPR’s exhaustive review of commencement speeches dating back to 1774. rawpixel/unsplash. Ross School for Business.

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Wiseman Mentor Hammer Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

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. So the reengineered consumption models of the sharing economy are now well poised to go mass-market, and the battle cries of Hammer and Davenport won't be necessary this time around.

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Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

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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Hammer Learning-by-Doing Blog Video 250

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

JANUARY 31, 2011

It suggests many business lessons to review while viewing the game. A virtue that will be tested this off season as the league and the players' union try to hammer out a new collective bargaining agreement.) The National Football League (NFL) championship game set a record for the most-watched TV program in history in 2010 , at 106.5

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Franchising Merchandising Hammer Brand 15

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2014

Their boss is always hammering, er…, asking them about it. Most senior teams have Monthly Operation Reviews (MORs) – the real stuff is on that agenda, and the rest is all noise. They have so many competing priorities to deal with; they would drown if they didn’t get good at sorting them out. They know something must be real when: 1.

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Planning Succession Metrics Commitment 236

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

When I grab a hammer to install shelving, the distinction between “hand” and “tool” recedes into the unconscious, while completing the job becomes the main object of my thinking; in function and thought, the tool is the extended hand when it works properly. So, what might a “handy” IoT offering look like?

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Hammer Fashion Sample Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The feedback in the 360-degree reviews was supposed to be anonymous. ” Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. ” “Is this about those 360 reviews? kuritafsheen/Getty Images.

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

One of the ways that a good leader can help bring about personal transformation is by being a Velvet Hammer. During the middle manager’s performance review, after talking about all of the things that he was doing well, his boss said, “There is one more thing that I have to tell you before you go.

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McGregor Middle Management Hammer Influence 278

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It’s a process that goes back to Michael Hammer’s famous missive in the Harvard Business Review in 1990, in which he outlines the inevitable failure of any new technology so long as it is transplanted onto processes that were designed for a previous generation of tools.

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Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 80

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Back in 1990, before Doug Woods, Peter Nosler, and Ron Davidowski (the "P" and "R" in DPR) hammered their first nail, they hammered out a "core ideology" designed to set them apart from their peers — and to announce their intention to challenge convention in their industry. "We

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Hammer Construction Advertising Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

Our field research showed that some traditional physical stores were rapidly blending the best of physical, web, and mobile to serve their customers, while others were simply being hammered by the growth of e-commerce. We thought getting data would be pretty easy. The Census Bureau has reports galore on e-commerce, broken down by industry.

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Merchandising Retail GDP Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

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. Recently, we helped a client with an opportunity that had been on its radar for over a decade.

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Innovation Hammer Discount Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

While many of these operations happen automatically, human beings play a vital role in designing experiments and reviewing data traces to continue to learn and evolve the design of the machine. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. Further second- and third-order interactions occur downstream.

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 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. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand. Certainly, some customization and personal touches were lost.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

What kind of app will make you appear — or be — more "fit" at a brainstorm, a planning session, a company offsite or a 360 degree job review? These are Jeopardy's John Henrys except that they aren't going to die or even get a headache by digitally souping up their "hammers" when they compete with a Watson.

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Hammer Competitive Advantage Brainstorming Participative 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Then hammer out a joint plan with them. Define stages from the planning phase through the closure; assign clear responsibilities; establish criteria that must be met to get to the next stage; and conduct regular reviews involving senior leaders. Work with suppliers to ensure that service and product quality are sustained.

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Hammer Operations Quality Project 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. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand. Certainly, some customization and personal touches were lost.

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Company Hammer Operations Process 8

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&#. Mental Models: are, simply put, about assumptions and biases in our thinking. This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives.

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Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

Adam Phillips, the British psychoanalyst, recently wrote an essay in the London Review of Books, titled simply “ Against Self-Criticism.” But the problem is that too tiresomely often they’re the same answers, not born of current competitive realities but from some chorus of nasty inner voices carried around since childhood.

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