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). So what tools should you offer as a mentor?

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Mentor Quality P&L Hammer 74

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). So what tools should you offer as a mentor?

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Mentor Quality P&L Hammer 40

Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

This was because the market for mobile games had become more competitive, making it difficult to acquire users cheaply. Traditionally, entrepreneurs love to talk about their product, but investors need to know about more than just the product - the market, the team, competitors, business model, etc. I call it the killer slide.

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Tips Entrepreneur Hammer Venture Capitalist 320

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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Team BHAG Hammer Open-book 64

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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Team BHAG Hammer Customer Loyalty 58

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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Leadership Hammer Short-term Simon 10

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. This means priming the pump through joint sales calls and other marketing efforts. Not only will we uncover potential hitches but managing the critical buzz is much easier. Every partnership is like moving a stubborn mule. Think Small.

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Succession Early Adopters Hammer Price 284

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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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. “I did talk to that leadership development firm last year,” he said. “OK. .

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Return on leadership. Big companies hammer their entire workforce to make certain that their customer satisfaction scores are high or higher, when they could be (should be) creating an internal training program that begins with the word wow, and progresses upward from there. Many Happy Returns : Return on training. Return on morale.

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ROI Customer Loyalty Airlines Loyalty 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

A lot of businesses have pursued social responsibility more out of their marketing departments or as some sort of charitable donation. So here’s the money management industry. If you start seeing everything through the impact investing lens, it starts looking like you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs. And they succeeded wildly. from 2004 to 2007.

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