Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 30, 2018

You made a commitment to your spouse. When he had his Infinity Gauntlet created on the planet of Nidavellir (the planet Thor’s hammer Mjolnir was forged on), he killed all of the giant Dwarves except for Eitri (Peter Dinklage). After Eitri overcame his disability, they were able to create a new hammer, Stormbreaker.

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The Office Blend Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

But, I am resolute and committed to the process. Choose a vehicle that attracts you, whether it involves paint, pencil, ink, a hammer or a camera. But, I’m a stubborn sort, and feel that there are ways to build the potential for creativity within our daily lives. I’ve relied on this vantage point for some time now.

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 24, 2013

Whether that is by working harder, working smarter, working better together, or some combination of the three, all outstanding teams have made commitment to outperform the competition. 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.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Empowering innovation begins with our everyday behavior, outlook, commitment and openness to new thinking. 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.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2019

Successful people are viewed as special, possessing unique talents, vision, and unflagging commitment. 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.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

They hammered the then-#1 ranked Blue Devils, outscoring them by 27 points (final score 90-63). As a result of their commitment to excellent performance every minute of every game, Miami’s self-esteem as a team has been elevated. They've clearly made the commitment to exceptional effort, and that shows in their “win” record.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Few things are more frustrating than trying to take on a project without the right equipment or tools. Try setting up a tent without the poles. Or building a swing set without the nuts and bolts. So what tools should you offer as a mentor?

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 20, 2012

It involved some sawing, a drill, a hammer and some nails.). 4 Commitments We’ll Make as Grandparents. Those bugs are hard to get rid of (Random thought while looking out the window. He then proceeded to tell me how he would get rid of them. I can’t believe the Lord blessed me with someone like Pauline. It was challenging.).

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

I often say, “you need a hammer to build a house, but it is not the only tool”, meaning that it is a part of the story but you cannot rely on the tool itself to generate change. How do you use social media to your advantage? Our actions show genuine commitment to clients and caring about improvement through the results.

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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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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Few things are more frustrating than trying to take on a project without the right equipment or tools. Try setting up a tent without the poles. Or building a swing set without the nuts and bolts. So what tools should you offer as a mentor?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2012

In order to move to Stage 3, the team must hammer out the performance standards and commitment to achieving them. They are necessary stepping-stones in the process that leads to high performance. In the process of development, teams most often get stuck in Stage 2.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2014

She’s using good processes, tools, best practices, and is committed to the development of her company’s leaders. They may be chickens (involved), but they’re not pigs (committed). Their boss is always hammering, er…, asking them about it. I’ve written about the importance of CEO commitment before. They have to be!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

That's a neat way to capture how it feels to change the sense of what's possible in your field — and a reminder of why so few leaders muster the commitment to build an organization with a unique sense of itself. From the inside looking out, you can't explain it.". We exist to build great things," the ideology declares.

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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. rawpixel/unsplash. So, go forth and build something with it.” ” — Bono, singer for U2, 2004 University of Pennsylvania commencement.

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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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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? That means you must recruit ‘A players’ through a big vision of the future and a personal commitment to a mission. .’ Great organizations encourage risk-taking. Because innovation requires it. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

When the hammer comes down, are you calm, collected, candid, curious, direct, and willing to listen? Specifically, focus on what you expected: the commitments, standards, policies, or targets that were missed. That would be ideal, wouldn’t it? When we’re angry, we lead with our emotions, instead of with the facts.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

We respect each other’s time commitments. 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?” We welcome feedback from each other. We are approachable.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail. To increase worker commitment and satisfaction, it will need to inspire every one of them to think about how they do their work and how they can improve it. Finally, the improvement experts (and I am one!)

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Among the problems: Agassi "effectively committed to a business model before he even settled on a name" and didn''t bother to hire people with management or automotive experience. According to many, he also packed an unhealthy amount of hubris.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

In Japan, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down. In India, it’s crabs in a bucket — the one who tries to escape is pulled down by his compatriots. In Australia, it’s tall poppies — and the tallest one gets its head whacked off. In the U.S., known for its embrace of assertive self-confidence, it’s a different story, however.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Hammering home the point, the client added, “It’s probably a good time to terminate our contract.” There were media outlets with whom clients’ budgets had been placed, and there were other vendors – an office landlord, software suppliers, and others – with whom Home Run was committed to lengthy contracts.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

.” One of the ways the company is telling a more sustainable story to customers is through the use of the “Butterfly Mark,” a symbol — a first in the luxury industry — that “at a glance helps people identify brands committed to social and environmental sustainability.”

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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.” As the Washington Post reports , Watson once listed the company’s values in the following order: respect for the employee; a commitment to customer service; and achieving excellence.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Yellen, whose first workday as chair ( the Senate confirmed her as “chairman,” but the Fed seems committed to leaving the “man” out ) is today, got her PhD at Yale. The result was the Fed-Treasury Accord of 1951, which McCabe hammered out with Assistant Treasury Secretary William McChesney Martin.

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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. For example, when she applied to be an editor, the first bullet point read: Versatile writer and editor committed to speaking directly to readers’ needs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But insensitive, hammer-like shots that are delivered in the name of honesty and openness usually do the greatest damage to people. Long before the era of sophisticated player analytics and probabilistic outcome modeling, Walsh was known as a cerebral and strategic coach in an era when many coaches were content to out-macho each other.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Use a big hammer. By starting with a big hammer, the store would learn whether customers care about local sourcing. Commit to a plan, and stick to it. Companies experiment when they don’t know what will work best. Faced with this uncertainty, it may sound appealing to start small in order to avoid disrupting things.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

We followed up with weekly review meetings to discuss progress, analyze problems, and hammer out solutions. In this context, we created a positive atmosphere in which to conduct an open and fruitful exchange of views and experiences, reach feasible decisions, and win commitment from our sales force to implement them.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

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. The employees were astonished and quickly shared the story with their colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. No matter how committed, a CEO can’t single-handedly reconstitute a company for innovation. Taking a systemic view. Retooling an organization for innovation is a daunting task. The entire top team has to be on board.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 28, 2017

There’s the content of the meeting, the information, the debate, the hammering out of different points of view. Facilitating the process was agonizing, but when complete everyone was committed to the decision and the rollout went quickly and flawlessly. Leader manages the process Every meeting has two things happening simultaneously.

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Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer Participative 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

After getting hammered by the press and most commentators for his lackluster performance during the first debate, Obama's campaign wasn't going to take any chances during the second one at Hofstra University in New York. But that doesn't mean they aren't trying. But it's also become a mandatory, even banal, part of campaign infrastructure.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The first half of the ad hammers this home by saying: “Illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay, collecting social security benefits—skipping the line.” ” This is a twofer psychologically: you get both the fear element and the unfairness kicker.

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