Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

If you ask customers what they want they will tell you I want the service and product for nothing. Back to Apple, their products are easy to use and their informed employees can teach consumers how to use their products. Leadership and/or members are all screwed up. Performance standards hammered out.

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Team BHAG Hammer Open-book 70

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. It begins patterns that can form into productive habits. Now, I am not a weight management specialist.

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Goal Blog Letter Open-book 134

Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

For one thing, it’s harder for an investor to figure out what the heck your product actually does on a remote pitch. Tip #3: Don’t Spend Too Much Time on the Product. Recently, I saw an entrepreneur’s deck that was 30 slides long, with 10 slides about the product (features, roadmaps, videos, and screenshots).

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Tips Entrepreneur Hammer Venture Capitalist 318

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. If the team becomes relentless in providing superior products and anticipating the changing needs of the customer, it becomes possible to become indispensable to your customers. Points to Remember. About the Author.

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Team BHAG Hammer Customer Loyalty 62

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. In the moment, you might feel like proving to the contracting officer that you’re angry, but is that productive over the long term?

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Team Management Stress Report 12

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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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In a marketplace gone global, productive partnerships are more crucial than ever. If you think you can sell a partner by merely "demoing" your wonderful product you have not grasped this essential point. Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. Ask questions. Don''t figure it out.

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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 58

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

” Tell them why they’re losing their jobs, whether it’s because of a drop in demand, changes in technology, or productivity and quality issues. 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.

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Hammer Operations Quality Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The team had dropped the ball on inquiries from several retailers interested in its products by failing to coordinate getting them into the company’s system quickly. The next morning, Lance was in his office when he got a text from Jhumpa, the head of product and merchandising: Can you talk? He needed to fix this. Nina laughed.

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 12

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 10

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

‘Return on Investment’ (ROI) in business is predicated on the ability of the company to deliver as promised in product, profit, and its accompanying service. Return on leadership. Return on quality product. How’s yours? ROI REALITY: Do you want to deliver service that’s satisfactory or remarkable? Return on morale.

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ROI Customer Loyalty Airlines Loyalty 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Abigail Noble: The other thing that we’re seeing is from the customer side — that they want things that have social impact and environmental responsibility and products that serve those needs. Whether it’s Warby Parker eyeglasses or Method home products or any one of a variety of other consumer products.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

Even if your corporate culture leaves a lot to be desired, managers can create a localized environment that inspires your employees to achieve peak performance. The productivity that will be unleashed is likely to be nothing short of astonishing,” says Covey. Even managers. You can’t force culture. Even long-time employees.

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Environment Covey Airlines Mission Statement 70

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

  Perhaps there is a third interpretation, one that would indicate that the advertising gurus over at Audi are geniuses because they managed to inflame a controversial subject to the point where a blogger would waste some of his precious time writing to his 3 loyal readers about a commercial!  Government is like a sledge hammer.

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Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 28, 2017

A leader with accelerated speed and pace greatly increases the likelihood of a productive meeting. Our research on productivity improvement shows high correlation of improved productivity with the efficiency and effectiveness of meetings. 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

JANUARY 23, 2017

An employee of Haier, the Chinese manufacturer, told us that CEO Zhang Ruimin once shut down production after he found minor dents and scratches on appliances that were coming off a manufacturing line. He instructed employees to take hammers in hand — not to fix the flaws but to destroy the imperfect products.

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Stage-Gate CEO Insurance Hammer 8

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. By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. And it’s not just your company.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

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. Air Products, Nokia, and Shell, among others, followed this advice and created top-level process owners. And they succeeded wildly.

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