First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 8, 2011

Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Here is an excerpt from a profile of Linda Rappaport (Partner, Shearman & Sterling) written by Melissa J.

Hammer 80

Hammer Career Execution Planning 80

Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

You don’t have to be in or near the field of change management long before you hear a daunting statistic: 70% of change initiatives fail. Isn’t that closer to a failure rate, in the truest sense of the term? It’s mentioned in passing as a fact in most change management books and articles nowadays.

Kotter 143

Kotter Champy Hammer Short-term 143

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2020

This is why renting a commercial storage unit for your business can offer an affordable and furnished shelving space to meet with their space requirements, seasonal or long-term. Short Term Commodity. Let’s see why; 1.Compact Compact and Organized Accumulation of Material.

Merchandising 66

Merchandising Document Industry Cost 66

Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). As an HR leader, what I do for one person can have long-term vast impact on all employees in a work group, in a building, and, potentially, in a company. Try setting up a tent without the poles. Or building a swing set without the nuts and bolts.

Mentor 74

Mentor Quality P&L Hammer 74

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 20, 2012

His mind comes and goes but his long-term memory is great. That was a long time ago now. It involved some sawing, a drill, a hammer and some nails.). When I arrived my grandfather was in the hallway. I stopped, kneeled down and talked with him for a while. My grandfather’s body is still strong. I was born in 1912.

Hammer 68

Hammer Short-term Long-term Advice 68

CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

As mentioned, they are long term relationships and friendships based on a shared belief in values, doing the right thing, giving natures and of course highly capable and skilled people. How did they become involved? generate, along with the increased self-awareness that makes the real difference.

Self-aware 146

Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). As an HR leader, what I do for one person can have long-term vast impact on all employees in a work group, in a building, and, potentially, in a company. Try setting up a tent without the poles. Or building a swing set without the nuts and bolts.

Mentor 40

Mentor Quality P&L Hammer 40

Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Distorting the system often occurs because performance appraisal encourages individuals to squeeze or circumvent the system for their short-term individual gain, rather than improve it for collective long-term gain. This change reduced the turnover ratio while improving nothing.

Deming 28

Deming System Incentives Short-term 28

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2011

Not that long ago, Michael Bloomberg was being talked about widely as a post-partisan presidential possibility. This is one reason that leaders need to be "repotted" after a long tenure, believed Ernie Arbuckle , the Stanford Business School dean who did much to put the school on its successful trajectory.

Long-term 15

Long-term Hammer Organizational Behavior CEO 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Negotiating power – Being able to pay suppliers upfront can often lead to more favorable terms and discounts. Small businesses that fail to do this can get hammered by unforeseen costs, go into steep debt, and potentially close completely. Plus, not needing to take out credit can give you more flexibility to negotiate.

Management 113

Management Banking Credit Scoring Discount 113

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And we expect at least a portion of current AI piloters to fully integrate AI in the near term. With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply.

Survey 12

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. A day of heavy labor might produce a few bars of iron, 14 feet long and two inches on a side. Hasenclever’s strategy was far grander.

Industry 8

Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

When the hammer comes down, are you calm, collected, candid, curious, direct, and willing to listen? But before you allow your emotions to take over, stop and ask yourself, “What is it I really want long term, for myself, for the contracting officer, and for the team?” That would be ideal, wouldn’t it?

Team 14

Team Management Stress Report 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. R&D spending falls into the long-term bucket. primary season.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2014

Their boss is always hammering, er…, asking them about it. They have begun to feel the pain of costly external mis-hires and long external searches while positions sit vacant and opportunities are lost. They have so many competing priorities to deal with; they would drown if they didn’t get good at sorting them out.

Planning 236

Planning Succession Metrics Commitment 236

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

This type of short-term alliance allows us to further test our working relationship, which might later lead to collaboration on an article, and so forth. Once we've worked on a few limited scope projects and hammered out the rules of engagement, it's important to give authority to our collaborators.

Micromanagement 22

Micromanagement Hammer Drucker Short-term 22

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We then virtually convened the project’s advisers for a roundtable discussion about what they viewed as the major issues raised in the interviews, and their own counsel for executives wishing to create long-term value through a sustainable business agenda. That needs to change.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I advocate the dual pronged approach of sociological and methodological (note that the Starstruck Entrepreneur falls short on both economic impact and long-term societal impact): One potent approach to eradicating the Starstruck Virus is to ignore the infected person.

Entrepreneur 18

Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I advocate the dual pronged approach of sociological and methodological (note that the Starstruck Entrepreneur falls short on both economic impact and long-term societal impact): One potent approach to eradicating the Starstruck Virus is to ignore the infected person.

Entrepreneur 18

Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 18

CO2

JANUARY 21, 2012

Though a peasant’s life is not a fat one, it is a long one. good terms with the peasants, until she engaged as her steward an. their owners, and for a long time he forbore from prosecuting any. They were all stout and merry, and all the summer long they never. The days are long now, and within a. Our way is.

Simon 74

Simon Price Long-term Follow-up 74

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

This isn't an instant strikeout, but it definitely should make you more curious about whether they see a long-term place for themselves in your business. Believe it or not, some people will just flat-out tell you that they see the job as a path toward doing their own thing. Another flag-raiser is someone who has very specific goals.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 9

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The CEO joked with the men, complimented them on their work, and treated them as long-term team members. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? One morning as he was walking down the long hallway to his office, he encountered some maintenance guys who were doing repairs.

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail. A senior operations leader I spoke to was skeptical that the quoted financial savings from Six Sigma projects, while valid, were having long-term effects on their cost structure. Finally, the improvement experts (and I am one!)

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

As usual, short-term pressures on financial performance are a concern, and change takes time. Environmental exec Sylvie Benard comments that changing behavior can take a few years, and you have to keep hammering home the message and “find the right moment” to act.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

An organization's overhead might be consistently high for any number of reasons: obscurity of the cause, a long-term strategy at work, educational efforts not labeled as services, and so on. They're using hammers where scalpels are required. It mistakenly equates high overhead with fraud.

Proposal 13

Proposal Telemarketing Hammer Report 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

It had been a long day at the company’s Birmingham, England, headquarters, and in the early evening the two were going over the evaluations of each of Lance’s direct reports. Lance had marveled at how long it had probably taken each of them to prepare — never mind the wasted paper. They help us win.

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

When it comes to real human prosperity, in the crudest terms of political economy, "demand" is about what people have the impertinence to, well, demand — and perhaps the simple fact is that we've become a society that's simply not demand ing enough. I have a longing to see these awakenings come to fruition. Yet, I will confess.

Abell 16

Abell Hammer Construction Morale 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. We’ve spoken to leaders who express such a vision — and companies such as Amazon and Alibaba are already beginning to make it a reality. Design appropriate to the aim.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The only way to change people is to tell them in the clearest possible terms what they’re doing wrong. Long before the era of sophisticated player analytics and probabilistic outcome modeling, Walsh was known as a cerebral and strategic coach in an era when many coaches were content to out-macho each other.

Sports 8

Sports Parcell How To Hammer 8

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

These efforts are often aligned through a non-linear process improvement cycle that resembles the hand drawn version of this figure, which Deming shared with Japanese executives long before the aforementioned discoveries by Frank Pipp and Larry Sullivan. We begin with a piece of molding that is too long and needs to be cut to length.

System 74

System Productivity Products Deming 74

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

We call this the Values Blueprint method of changing culture and we recommend you engage in a two-day retreat with a group of your best players to hammer out what your values should be and what behaviors best exemplify those values. Even long-time employees. And you must be courageous enough to fire those who don’t. Even managers.

Environment 70

Environment Covey Airlines Mission Statement 70

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.” Put simply, what’s good for increasing GDP may not be good for the long-term betterment of society. The path to prosperity for nations is complex.

Globalization 15

Globalization GDP Hammer Maslow 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Use a big hammer. By starting with a big hammer, the store would learn whether customers care about local sourcing. How long will you let the experiment run? Experimentation is a long-term, richly informative process, with each trial forming the starting point for the next. Commit to a plan, and stick to it.

Hammer 8

Hammer Advertising How To Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

And: A diverse team is essential to survival, a point underscored by the impossibility of winning in D&D unless you have a warrior to beat things up and absorb damage, a wizard to fight magical foes and occasionally drop the hammer on something big, a cleric to heal your party members, and so on.

Management 8

Management Engineering Hammer Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

In the long-version explanation of the prizes published by the Nobel committee last fall, Campbell was cited more often than anybody else, apart from the three winners. 2 is this distinction between short-term vs. long-term predictability. That was another discovery of the 1980s that was inconsistent with the paradigm.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I’ve given passing thought to dieting, but other than a few points that have been hammered into all of us (e.g., “Too For example, I often take a long bike ride on summer Sundays. As in all business, the real questions are “Will it work long-term?” I like to exercise and get plenty. The problem is that I also like to eat!

Travel 8

Travel How To Information Technology Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

And he sees little reason to expect Congress to pass a long-term solution to the fiscal cliff; instead, he thinks an "irresponsible," short-term "band-aid" solution. But whether European politicians will be able to hammer out a deal. And concern about political gridlock is not just confined to the US.

Politics 8

Politics CEO Health Care Short-term 8