First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 1, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Yolande Piazza (Managing Director, Global Consumer Technology, Citi) written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

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Hammer Globalization Technology Planning 85

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 11, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Liv Sandbaek (Managing Director, Technology, Accenture) written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

Hammer 85

Hammer Technology Career Planning 85

Your Voice of Encouragement

APRIL 8, 2014

And then he used a phrase to describe me that I cherish to this day: VELVET HAMMER I pride myself on speaking the truth to people, but I try to do it gently, to maintain the other person’s dignity and self-esteem. Who would make the best “velvet hammer” for you? Someone who will be honest with you.

Hammer 89

Hammer Follow-up Development Consultative 89

Tony Mayo

AUGUST 22, 2009

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences?

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Executive Coaching Mayo Execution Hammer 163

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 26, 2011

Here is an article written by Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.”

Hammer 89

Hammer Diversity Innovation Article 89

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Unfortunately, for solo entrepreneurs, technology serves a dual purpose, acting both as a fit-for-purpose tool and an advisor. Just as anybody can use a hammer, only trained professionals can build a house. But remember that technology doesn’t make you an expert! I’ve got a tool that does it for me.

Tools 132

Tools Outsourcing Marketing Content 132

CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

I often say, “you need a hammer to build a house, but it is not the only tool”, meaning that it is a part of the story but you cannot rely on the tool itself to generate change. How do you use social media to your advantage? It is how you use the information that the resources, assessments etc. It’s massive!

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Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. During my 87 years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. I learned much from my teachers, more from my books, and most from my mistakes. –Anonymous. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. –Sir Francis Bacon.

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Succession How To Gilbert Learning-by-Doing 165

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

 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.  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.

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Blog Human Resources Human Capital Talent Management 124

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2015

We are holding a hammer, waiting for the time when they are ready with a nail. It not only teaches buyers how to get the requisite buy-in so their daily functioning won’t be compromised – managing the people, policies, technology, and old vendor, etc. We just need to help them do it themselves.

Influence 50

Influence Management Telemarketing Hammer 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Hammer's thinking was very powerful, but I'd challenge that last point.

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Process Innovation Hammer Resistance 11

Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

Typically, it is about your team, market opportunity, technology/product, or market results/ traction. If your biggest strength is your technology or IP differentiation, you better have a simple visual, which makes it easy to understand while also hammering home your IP is so important. I call it the killer slide.

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Tips Entrepreneur Hammer Venture Capitalist 324

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Accompanying these peer economy companies are others (like Zipcar) which simply leverage technology and lower transaction costs to make flexible renting a viable alternative to asset acquisition.

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Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

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. Innovation Technology'

Industry 8

Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

When I grab a hammer to install shelving, the distinction between “hand” and “tool” recedes into the unconscious, while completing the job becomes the main object of my thinking; in function and thought, the tool is the extended hand when it works properly. Information & technology Internet Technology'

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Hammer Fashion Sample Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. The businesses most at risk from platforms powered by rapidly improving online technologies aren’t, in fact, traditional businesses that sell products and services to consumers.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Operations Magazine 8

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, the common belief today is that the best applications of AI and automation will be very much a joint affair, with humans doing what humans continue to do best, and technology doing what technology does best. Task management. Rather than a face-to-face consultation, for instance, they are done instead over telehealth platforms.

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Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 87

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Every serious technology company now has an Artificial Intelligence team in place. As with earlier technologies, we are now hearing advice about “AI strategies” and how companies should hire Chief AI Officers. The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around.

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Technology Hammer Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Strategies change, leaders change, markets change and technology changes at a frightening pace. None of those domains remains in stasis over time — strategies change, leaders (and their related passions) change, markets develop, and technologies are created. Failures tend to "fail" or to be abandoned relatively quickly.

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Innovation Hammer Discount Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There's no doubt technology entrepreneurship is becoming its own kind of celebrity. Transformational Entrepreneurship: Where Technology Meets Societal Impact (Post 1). As a result of all the attention, we have a phenomenon TechCrunch has dubbed " The New Silicon Valley Douchebag." Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas (Post 2).

Entrepreneur 18

Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There's no doubt technology entrepreneurship is becoming its own kind of celebrity. Transformational Entrepreneurship: Where Technology Meets Societal Impact (Post 1). As a result of all the attention, we have a phenomenon TechCrunch has dubbed " The New Silicon Valley Douchebag." Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas (Post 2).

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Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 17

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Listening to the breathless commentary surrounding technologies such as AI and robotics and one could be minded to believe that technology is transforming life as we know it on a scale never seen before. The need to disseminate technology. in 2013, compared to 2.5% in 1992. in 2013, compared to 2.5%

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Innovation Productivity Products Technology 125

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. Decision making Information & technology Operations' Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand.

Company 8

Company Hammer Operations Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

companies are outperforming their overseas counterparts: Clean-energy technologies. has underwritten much of the technological innovation behind clean energy's progress. Fracking technology has been entirely funded, researched, and commercialized in the United States, with strong federal support, and is now being exported worldwide.

Energy 11

Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 11

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

If you take advantage of the broad range of new technologies on offer, you can demonstrate to customers and investors that you are an innovative business that looks towards the future. Profit margins, budgets, and return on investments are all things that are hammered into business owners’ heads daily. Innovative Appearance.

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Hammer Efficiency Tools Innovation 68

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand. Certainly, some customization and personal touches were lost.

Company 8

Company Hammer Operations Process 8

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

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

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Hammer Learning-by-Doing Blog Video 250

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. In transition periods, during big technological shifts or the ends of recessions, companies often turn their aspirations to growth through innovation.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Last September some of the world’s foremost technology industry leaders met in Seattle with Xi Jinping, president of China. You could certainly apply that to the fateful photograph of Xi Jinping and the top technology CEOs — the one where Kalanick is out of the picture. ” Here is the takeaway.

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Marketing CEO Mass Marketing Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

I stopped expecting a human brain to solve a problem created by technology. I finally accepted that this was a technology problem that required a technological solution. There is an old saying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: to drink from a firehose, you need to use a straw.

Tactics 11

Tactics Management Letter Hammer 11

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. Then hammer out a joint plan with them. Treat employees with dignity, fairness, and respect. Address “What does it mean for me?”

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Hammer Operations Quality Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

Recent research hammers this home, showing that our performance drops when we try to perform both encoding tasks (experiencing what's around you) and response selection tasks (capturing stimuli) at the same time. The problem is, we must choose between capturing these moments or viscerally experiencing them as they unfold.

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Document Venture Capitalist Maslow Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. ” In his family’s living room, his proud parents give him his “grandpappy’s” giant hammer. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? MISTAKE #2: Underestimating the impact of small acts of dishonesty. ’ Great organizations encourage risk-taking.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

These are Jeopardy's John Henrys except that they aren't going to die or even get a headache by digitally souping up their "hammers" when they compete with a Watson. Can human-aided devices — or is it device-augmented humans — better compete against pure machines?

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Hammer Competitive Advantage Brainstorming Participative 13