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. Appoint an experienced, full-time project leader and a strong team. Set the tone.

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Hammer Operations Quality Project 8

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

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

It was a two week project, and it was one of the longest two weeks of my life. 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! I have absolutely no aptitude for carpentry. Because numbers I could work with.

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Hammer Learning-by-Doing Blog Video 250

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Depending on the person and the size of the team, it may be necessary for team members to perform multiple roles on a project. The person funding the project shouldn’t usually also be a designer on the project because their motivations may get muddled. Great design teams are carefully put together and managed.

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Team Hammer Software Project 64

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. And please realize: A Players don’t just come from management ranks; there are outstanding players on your front line that deserve a chance to help you. Even managers.

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Environment Covey Airlines Mission Statement 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. So here’s the money management industry. There is probably $50 billion of money under management in impact investing at the moment — that’s not going to set the world on fire for the large investment firms.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

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.

Politics 77

Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

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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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2016

Recruiting is like a hammer. If you’re building a house and the only tool you’ve supplied your framer is a hammer, then then don’t blame the framer if it takes five times longer than you’d like, and costs a bundle more than it should. Executive leadership and buy-in. Recruiting Is Overused and Misapplied. Keep it simple.

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Planning Hammer Succession Constraint 50