In the CEO Afterlife
AUGUST 7, 2011
Warren Staley (Cargill) supports Habitat for Humanity with a hammer, a saw and a wallet. GE’s Jack Welch (pictured above) divides his time consulting with companies, travelling, golfing, lecturing at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and donating time and money to business education.
Chris Brady
DECEMBER 30, 2010
Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. An action plan might involve joining a health club, working out three to four times a week, and managing your caloric intake. Now, I am not a weight management specialist. Resist this temptation. Focus is the key. Take immediate action. So far so good.
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Strategy Driven
MARCH 25, 2020
One of the perks of working in a large company, with several senior responsibilities, is that it’s often left to you to travel to different destinations in order to hammer out contracts, seal deals, check up on suppliers, or help with your distribution network. Finally, all smart businesspeople know how to pack to impress.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 14, 2016
Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. Insight Center. Innovation in Cities.
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.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
The ability to think analytically is important for any manager today. Every manager must make the distinction between “correlation” and “cause and effect” regularly, as the topic comes up in many guises. Finally, much of management involves taking actions on things you can control to affect desired results.
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. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge.
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