In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Companies, large and small, cannot survive without great leadership, sound strategy and flawless execution. He refused to be blocked by the brick wall that separates management from union in most companies. In fact, it was Ronnie who took a sledge hammer to that wall and turned it into rubble.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

Would it be classic, humorous Adam Sandler a la Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, or Anger Management? It also proved to provide insights into leadership, if you looked deep enough. Leadership Lessons From Pixels. You can do the same thing with leadership. This leadership lesson from Pixels pained me.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

If you’ve done a good job of staying engaged with your people throughout the year, you shouldn’t have to use the annual review to deliver a surprise message or drop the hammer about something that didn’t get done. First, make the process more prospective and less retrospective. What are you trying to accomplish with the review conversation?

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Guest post By John Sweeney: Innovation is foundational to business leadership. But for innovation, responsibility begins and remains at the highest levels of leadership. We empower individuals across disciplines to evaluate, orchestrate, strategize, create and hire, but most importantly, we empower others to innovate.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2019

Citizens have been asked to cast their vote for a referendum requiring those seeking to purchase a hammer to undergo a registration process similar to that for firearms. Supporters argue that because hammers, like guns, have metal parts and can be used to kill people that these tools should be legally controlled as guns are.

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Decker Communication

MARCH 30, 2020

The months ahead will be a high-pressure exercise in change management, and success will depend on an organization’s flexibility and capacity to adjust its trajectory. Employees have settled into the work from home world. Our collective disorientation in the wake of a pandemic has given way to a new normal.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

When I was a CEO, I managed to squirrel away a “rainy day” fund for nasty business blips. In a crisis, whether short or long-term, the most senior people in the organization need to step up and offer innovative solutions to the issues hammering the bottom-line. At best, they are managers. Those who can’t do this are not leaders.

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The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 15, 2011

I don’t model the ease and beauty of playing that you might see in a true guitar master like Eric Clapton or Jim Croce (yes, I am showing my age), I can manage to, generally, make sounds that resemble music. I have even learned what it means to hammer on and pull off. I know how to make my left hand create a number of chords.

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Tony Mayo

AUGUST 22, 2009

Experimenters showed peasants drawings of a hammer, a saw, an axe, and a log and then asked them to choose the three items that were similar. If pressed, they considered throwing out the hammer; the situation of chopping wood seemed more cogent to them than any conceptual category.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

There isn’t a doubt in my mind that the leadership principles that worked for me as a CEO continue to apply to the current era of light speed communications and decision-making. Companies, large and small, cannot survive without great leadership, sound strategy and flawless execution.

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Lead by Adventure

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Who can hammer out the details? The DISC test helps by showing you what each person needs from you and one another in areas such as leadership, communication, work environment, and more. You have open and honest communication with your manager and you feel comfortable sharing ideas, concerns, and asking for clarification if needed.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 7, 2011

Leadership. by John • August 7, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Life • 0 Comments. Beyond my recreational life (weapons of choice being a tennis racquet or a golf club - on a good day I use both), I’m writing about business leadership, branding and life. Leadership. In the CEO Afterlife. Visionary.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds. THE LEADERSHIP GAP. Additional Reading you might enjoy: 12 Successful Leadership Principles That Never Grow Old.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

This meant from a young age I knew that leading, not just managing and working with people was something I would always pursue. My career from that point has almost always been in leadership roles within the retail, hospitality, finance and contact centre industries in Australia and overseas.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. I must confess that not being particularly academic in my own learning process, I found The Fifth Discipline a little dry. It can get pretty complex. What do you think?

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm, says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Or building a swing set without the nuts and bolts.

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

First, let's cover the basics, which are given more depth of treatment in Orrin Woodward and my book, Launching a Leadership Revolution.  Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. Now, I am not a weight management specialist. Goals must be specific 2. Goals must be written down 3.

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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? We found that a large majority of managers and leaders buckle under pressure. Our latest research shows that your temperament in these crucial moments has a tremendous impact on your team’s performance.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm , says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Or building a swing set without the nuts and bolts.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

Leadership and/or members are all screwed up. Performance standards hammered out. Shared leadership. Clarifying the rules and developing standards. Dependence is on the coach/leader. Coach/leader uses a directive approach. Stage 2 – Wish We Weren’t Here. Feeling that this is not fun. Focus on customers. About the Author.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 19, 2011

In less than two minutes, Lost Generation hammers home how we create our own reality. The message is brimming with optimism and hope. The exact same words read in two different directions carry diametrically opposite meanings.

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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. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

They were also an example of the power of community in leadership. We often think of leadership as a solitary task. Buying into Thomas Carlyle’s “great man” theory of history , we speak of leadership in solitary and personal terms. First, great leadership often starts in community. Mahatma Gandhi, and Harriet Tubman.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Yet this narrative around Asians’ success obscures the fact that they are underrepresented in leadership positions, a phenomenon referred to as the “bamboo ceiling.” Asian Americans (including Indians) are 27% of the workers in these companies , but only 19% of managers and 14% of executives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

If your biggest strength is your technology or IP differentiation, you better have a simple visual, which makes it easy to understand while also hammering home your IP is so important. Spend more time on this “killer slide” and hammer in the point. Sometimes, the “big strength” is a product demo, which isn’t in the slides at all.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#. How they manage conflict. It can get pretty complex.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2014

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. How do I get the leadership team to see this as important? Senior and middle managers are REALLY good at figuring out what’s “real” and what’s not. Their boss is always hammering, er…, asking them about it. They have to be!

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 6, 2009

So, if you are new to leadership, know that to be a good leader, sometimes you’re also going to fail. Shifting to experiment/learn perspective would most certainly take the ‘hammer’ out of the equation. Failure is a part of living and, often, the very thing that makes success so exhilarating, if only by contrast.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. Not only will we uncover potential hitches but managing the critical buzz is much easier. And the vagaries of inventory management, pricing, and product placement had already been solved by the vendor as well. Don''t figure it out.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. 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.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

A lot has been written about Transformational Leadership. In his book “ Leadership ” he talks about the transformational impact that occurs on performance and morale when a leader connects a follower’s sense of identity to the collective identity of the organization. The leader has to be simultaneously caring and tough.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Other executives — the division manager or the head of the business unit — should be visible from beginning to end. Then hammer out a joint plan with them. Manage the closure or layoff like a project. Use the techniques of conventional project management. Set the tone. Help people find jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology. In many cases, the change-management challenges of incorporating AI into employee processes and decision making far outweigh technical AI implementation challenges.

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