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.

Motivation 8

Motivation Hammer Video Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

In Japan, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down. By thinking about personal branding as honoring the time and effort they put into your development, it can make the act itself feel more legitimate. Career planning Global business Personal effectiveness' In the U.S., Strike a compromise with yourself.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Brand Hammer Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Develop the facts of the case jointly with your counterparts. Negotiation is not usually an individual sport. Build a common fact base. In many disputes, disagreement arises less from a clash of interests and more from disparate understandings of the situation. Think outside your own box.

Advice 8

Advice Hammer Seminar Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

It was Abraham Maslow who gave us that famous observation — “when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Global Prosperity is Rising. Despite the tumultuous events of the last five years, global prosperity is actually still on the rise. Economy Global business Sustainability'

Globalization 15

Globalization GDP Hammer Maslow 15

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

” As Michael Hammer famously remarked in the Harvard Business Review in 1990, successful dissemination of technology often requires a reconstruction of the processes that underpin the way our organizations function. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.

Innovation 106

Innovation Productivity Products Technology 106

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Negotiating the deal with the large global brand had been a challenge, but it increased business so much that Lance and his direct reports still felt as if they didn’t have enough hours in the day to get everything done. “I did talk to that leadership development firm last year,” he said.

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

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. An inability to easily determine the value of ideas.

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Way #2: Audi agreed with the stance that would require governmentally enforced global eco-wacko-ism and thought it was funny to poke fun at people who don't share the extreme "granola" viewpoint.  Government is like a sledge hammer. I am okay with this view, though the imagery was still very scary.

Politics 77

Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

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.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t. This definition may seem somewhat generic.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

Few have developed the understanding that the bark is merely the outermost layer of a tree. To begin, our highly interconnected and global economy means that seemingly unrelated developments can affect each other. How many real estate professionals in Miami are closely watching Chinese economic developments? Why's that?

Hammer 20

Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 20

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Among the many reasons I think the Trump administration should ease up on its attacks on the WTO is the fact that they are making it more difficult to recruit developing-country members, even though many share U.S. China’s subsidies and tech-transfer practices pose a major threat to the global trade order. concerns about China.

Proposal 10

Proposal Technology Hammer Policies 10