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Refuse to be Offended (Justin Maust)

Let's Grow Leaders

One simple tactic to give your team an edge. Sometimes a leader needs to be the hammer. Allow the hammer to strike you so that you can effectively support the structure. It’s impossible for the hammer to hold the structure together alone…the nail is his only hope. Bad hammers ruin good nails.

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8 Weeks to Get Juiced – A Better Strategic Planning Process for Consulting Firms

David A Fields

If you develop an annual plan for your consulting firm, there’s a decent chance you sit down with your senior team and/or advisors for a day or two to hammer out your objectives, strategies and tactics. (If If you don’t engage in any strategic planning for your consulting firm then, as the old saying goes, “When … Continued.

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The “Piggyback” Approach to Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Consider how we have “the way” we do things: the way we make pasta, the way we use a hammer, the way we deal with our day-to-day problems. The author offers examples of how organizations, ranging from small nonprofits to big corporations, are employing this tactic. On the other hand, it limits our ability to see beyond the default.

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18 Essentials Every New Car Owner Must Have

Strategy Driven

A car hammer to break windows and seat belt cutter for dire emergencies. Tactical flashlight: useful for night-time situations. Having them there will save you time, prevent stress and even save your life. They include: Pen/pencil and paper. Emergency money (keep this stashed in more than one place). Fire extinguisher.

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4 Signs Your Business Needs a Storage Service

Strategy Driven

Such incidents are common in the businesses that deal with mechanical tools that include, drill machines, hammers, wedges, saws, glass, and other sharp objects. In industries, when things are spread all over the place, workers and other labors are easily vulnerable to getting hurt and receive a serious injury.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

 Sadly, as the old saying goes, when a hammer is the only tool in your arsenal, you start to see every problem as a nail.  As the human resources function seeks to transition itself from a tactical to strategic role in more and more organizations, execution becomes increasingly important.

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8 Ways Not to Manage Your Email (and 5 and a Half Tactics that Work)

Harvard Business Review

There were several oft-recommended tactics that failed utterly for me, and a few that did work. Notably, most of the successful tactics had less to do with email and more to do with general time management — although there were two important exceptions. This is the “half” tactic.)

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