First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 1, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Karen Ho (Chief Operating Officer, Broadway Technology) written by Jessica Titlebaum (Chicago) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

Technology 85

Technology Chief Operating Officer Hammer Operations 85

Lead Change Blog

JULY 21, 2016

Think about it: what would a company be like without top-down leadership to set goals and priorities, direct resources and operations, plan strategies, and make sure those strategies are being implemented? So it does work.

Industry 150

Industry Leadership Styles Leadership Hammer 150

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 25, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Augusta Sanfilippo (Managing Director, Cash Securities Operations IT, Citi) written by Melissa J. Anderson for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

Hammer 85

Hammer Operations Career Planning 85

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Covid-19 has been many things, but the digital transformation it has encouraged has been significant, whether due to the newly remote workforces, the urgent need for online sales channels, or the need for cloud-based technologies to maintain business operations. Redesigning the business.

Supply Chain 87

Supply Chain Technology Hammer Report 87

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 speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives. In organizations, we have this tendency to create silos of operation where people make decisions based only on their own needs.

Learning Organization 56

Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Seeing compensation as the primary or only tool we can use to motivate high performance is like trying to build a house with only a hammer. ” I found this comment on a leadership article posted on the HBR Facebook page, but it could have come from the mouths of the countless leaders I’ve met during my career.

Motivation 8

Motivation Hammer Video Objective 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57