Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2014

Her articles are featured and syndicated today on InPower Women , Smartblog/Smartbrief on Leadership, The Glass Hammer and Success in the City and she’s gained warm receptions as a trainer to leadership teams and motivational speaker to women’s groups. Contact Dana, view her speaker’s bio and follow her on LinkedIn, Google+ and Twitter.

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Leadership Freak

MAY 29, 2014

“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” ” Abraham Maslow Your strength is your hammer. If only the world was a nail. Strengths pull toward “right” solutions.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Faster Cheaper Better : The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done by Michael Hammer and Lisa Hershman. Leadership Rules : How to Become the Leader You Want to Be by Chris Widener. Succeed : How We Can Reach Our Goals by Heidi Grant Halvorson. The Soul of Leadership : Unlocking Your Potential for Greatness by Deepak Chopra.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 17, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Viva Hammer (Principal, KPMG Washington National Tax) 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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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Instead of hammering me about it, Karin acknowledged it but helped us quickly move on. Some time ago, I made what I considered to be a pretty substantial mistake with Karin’s work. I owned up and made a commitment to making sure it didn’t happen again. She could tell that I already had thought through how to avoid it in the future.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Viva Hammer (Principal, KPMG Washington National Tax) 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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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 14, 2014

There are several reasons for that – it is often used, using it won’t hurt you (think hammer, saw, or torch!), One of earliest tools I learned how to use growing up on a farm was a tape measure. and my Dad carried a small one in his pocket. And as a boy, emulating Dad […].

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

John Keyser of Common Sense Leadership defines emotional intelligence on The Glass Hammer blog as thatsomethingwithin us that helps us sense how we feel, enables us to sympathize with others, and gives us the ability to listen to other people when they need it. Some people are born with it, but others have to work to develop it.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

And when delivering bad news, use a velvet hammer. I discovered that listening breeds knowledge, knowledge breeds creditability, and credibility earns trust that allows relationships to flourish. How do we do that? Speaking about tough truths in affirmative tones let critiques land constructively.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 14, 2014

There are several reasons for that – it is often used, using it won’t hurt you (think hammer, saw, or torch!), One of earliest tools I learned how to use growing up on a farm was a tape measure. and my Dad carried a small one in his pocket. And as a boy, emulating Dad […].

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Women on Business

JULY 26, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Whether you’re giving or receiving feedback, there are five elements of a great coaching conversation in business that can help everyone involved have a better experience.Henna Inam shares those five elements on The Glass Hammer: Clarity. Compassion. Confirmation. Commitment.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

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. Spend more time on this “killer slide” and hammer in the point. Sometimes, the “big strength” is a product demo, which isn’t in the slides at all.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Beate Chelette shares the following insights on The Glass Hammer regarding leadership models: “For the longest time, most successful women have adopted one of two main business leadership styles because there have been no other models.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Beate Chelette shares the following insights on The Glass Hammer regarding leadership models: “For the longest time, most successful women have adopted one of two main business leadership styles because there have been no other models.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Customers no longer exist to buy your products; you exist to solve your customer’s problems. The company that remains self-rather than customer-centric cannot endure. In the customer economy, yesterday’s innovation is baseline today and obsolete tomorrow. What was once unimaginable quickly becomes routine, and then expectations are even higher.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2015

“ You don’t hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.” You just finished reading Leadership Inspiration - Well Hammered ! The post Leadership Inspiration – Well Hammered appeared first on StrategyDriven. ” George Bernard Shaw.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

His hammers, screwdrivers, and pieces of wood showed me the power of choosing a growth mindset in lieu of settling for a fixed one. Little did I realize it at the time, but Dad demonstrating his willingness to let go of what he thought the solution was and to try other things was an invaluable gift.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Anderson of The Glass Hammer shared three ways executive search firms can help to increase the number of women on boards as explained by study co-author Claudia Pici-Morris, U.S. Head of Research for Egon Zehnder: 1.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. There is no substitute for grass roots research. Don''t figure it out. Get out there and find out by talking to your partner''s customers and sales force. Beware of Magic Bullets. Every partnership is like moving a stubborn mule.

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The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 15, 2011

I have even learned what it means to hammer on and pull off. I don’t model the ease and beauty of playing that you might see in a true guitar master like Eric Clapton or Jim Croce (yes, I am showing my age), I can manage to, generally, make sounds that resemble music. I know how to make my left hand create a number of chords.

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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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Women on Business

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Glass Hammer shares the story of Karen Wimbish whose career soared after her children had grown. Click the link above to read 4 key tips for stress-free management from Rene Shimada Siegel of Inc.com. Movers and Shakers: Karen Wimbish, Director of Retail Retirement for Wells Fargo.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 30, 2018

When he had his Infinity Gauntlet created on the planet of Nidavellir (the planet Thor’s hammer Mjolnir was forged on), he killed all of the giant Dwarves except for Eitri (Peter Dinklage). You are exactly what someone needs: Thor, Groot, and Rocket had gone to Nidavellir to have a new hammer created for Thor. ” 24.

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Take the hammer, break the mold. You’ve got to break the mold you’ve cast for yourself. Let your real self shine. Find your way to standout. Until you do, you’ll never truly shine. You’ll never find your place in the world. Question: What can you do to step out of the mold you’ve cast yourself in?

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General Leadership

JUNE 1, 2016

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. ” Abraham H. Who we are rises above what we say.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

In a crisis, whether short or long-term, the most senior people in the organization need to step up and offer innovative solutions to the issues hammering the bottom-line. But, these blips have a way of separating leaders from followers. Those who can’t do this are not leaders. At best, they are managers. At worst, they are expendable.

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Tony Mayo

AUGUST 22, 2009

Experimenters showed peasants drawings of a hammer, a saw, an axe, and a log and then asked them to choose the three items that were similar. If pressed, they considered throwing out the hammer; the situation of chopping wood seemed more cogent to them than any conceptual category.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 1, 2012

Laura’s first solo book Visual Hammer was recently released and is available now at Amazon.com or Apple’s iTunes. Along with her partner and father Al Ries, the legendary Positioning pioneer, Ries & Ries consults with companies around the world on brand strategy.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

One of the ways that a good leader can help bring about personal transformation is by being a Velvet Hammer. Rather than transform the entire organization, they likely focused intensely on transforming you. A leader needs to be able to deliver hard-hitting messages that bring about change, but that do so without inflicting harm.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For executives and managers, the default response is often a version of fight – to hammer on deadlines, drive for results, to lose patience with what they view as friction and pushback. It puts our sympathetic nervous system on a hair trigger and the fight or flight response kicks in.

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Rich Gee Group

APRIL 10, 2014

I’ll save it when I hit my finger with a hammer. You thought I meant that other word. Today’s four-letter word starting with an ‘F’ is: FEAR. We all have some sort of fear at some level at some time in our life.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 25, 2014

One of the coolest iOS apps I’ve seen for the gamification of task lists or personal development has to be EpicWin (or there’s Task Hammer for Android users like myself). Using gamification can make personal growth a challenge that rewards us instantly.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2021

.” Abraham Maslow famously observed, “if the only tool you have is a hammer you treat everything as if it were a nail.” ” Many fad champions swing the hammer of the latest big organizational fix with monomaniacal zeal. And the snicker factor rises another notch.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The best way to do that is to use incontrovertible FACTS and keep hammering their wishy-washy statements until they wither and die. Be calm but be stern, most low-level politicians will slink away and never darken your doorstep again. Higher-level politicians need a light to be focused on them (during a meeting). Stand your ground.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2012

We will, but the rest of the tips won’t work as well if your employees don’t trust that you have their backs or you’re not using development as a hammer. OK, so when are we going to get to the pragmatic “hows”? See how to inspire trust and 20 signs you can't be trusted as a leader. Treat every day as a development day.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Quit hammering your followers with value statements and high-priced communication plaques. Replace the word “love” in the quote with “values” and you have a great challenge for your organization: Live your values, don’t preach them. Quit talking about what you “should” do…and do it.

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 24, 2013

The “Whack-a-Mole” game is one where you grab a large padded hammer - and you score points by hitting the plastic moles when they pop up their heads. Society holds that hammer high, and delights in crushing any head that sticks itself out above the crowd.

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