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

Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 13, 2013

This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization. As organizations increase in size, the leadership team moves from generalists to specialists who are responsible for a particular business area. She commented, “It’s just not the same. I feel like a number.

Customer Intimacy 133

Customer Intimacy Hammer Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing 133

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 7, 2011

Leadership. by John • August 7, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Life • 0 Comments. Beyond my recreational life (weapons of choice being a tennis racquet or a golf club - on a good day I use both), I’m writing about business leadership, branding and life. Leadership. In the CEO Afterlife. Visionary.

CEO 100

CEO Golden Parachute Welch Human Resources 100

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Let’s suppose that the two skills are marketing and storytelling. In the above example, you will see how to move the needle for that person using your core skills – marketing and storytelling. Think about the old adage – “if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

Storytelling 74

Storytelling Hammer How To Skills 74

Six Disciplines

MAY 17, 2013

This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization. As organizations increase in size, the leadership team moves from generalists to specialists who are responsible for a particular business area. She commented, “It’s just not the same. I feel like a number.

Customer Intimacy 116

Customer Intimacy Hammer Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing 116

CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

If you have not had the opportunity to view or read any of Simon Sinek’s material regarding marketing and to ‘ Start with Why ‘, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes doing so. Sounds simple, but what Sinek found is that most companies do their marketing backwards. How – This is how the business fulfills that core belief.

Self-aware 146

Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Hershman is the Chief Executive Officer of Hammer and Company. About the Authors.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 11, 2011

Home About Consulting Church Family Leadership Navigation: Home » Ministry » Grace Community Church » Costa Rica Report, Part 2 Costa Rica Report, Part 2 January 11, 2011 in Grace Community Church , Missions with 10 Comments Yesterday was our first official “work day&# at the Abraham Project.

Report 50

Report Edmondson Hammer Consultative 50

Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm, says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Try setting up a tent without the poles.

Mentor 74

Mentor Quality P&L Learning-by-Doing 74

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

Leadership and/or members are all screwed up. Performance standards hammered out. Shared leadership. Clarifying the rules and developing standards. Dependence is on the coach/leader. Coach/leader uses a directive approach. Stage 2 – Wish We Weren’t Here. Feeling that this is not fun. Focus on customers. About the Author.

Team 63

Team BHAG Hammer Open-book 63

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Return on leadership. Big companies hammer their entire workforce to make certain that their customer satisfaction scores are high or higher, when they could be (should be) creating an internal training program that begins with the word wow, and progresses upward from there. Many Happy Returns : Return on training. Return on morale.

ROI 50

ROI Customer Loyalty Airlines Hammer 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2012

In order to move to Stage 3, the team must hammer out the performance standards and commitment to achieving them. They are necessary stepping-stones in the process that leads to high performance. In the process of development, teams most often get stuck in Stage 2. About the Author.

Team 58

Team BHAG Hammer Customer Loyalty 58

Strategy Driven

JUNE 25, 2012

BIGGER REALITY: If companies like Halliburton are able to sell hammers to the government for $6,000, somehow you should be able to get your price if you are within a few points or dollars of your competition. .’ REALITY: ‘The customer only buys price’ is an excuse propagated by weak and lazy salespeople.

Training 50

Training Price Hammer Customer Loyalty 50

N2Growth Blog

JULY 19, 2011

“ Addiction Marketing &# is a phrase I started using a few years back while waiting in line for my drink at Starbucks. What Starbucks has done better than many other addictive marketers is that they also make it cool and trendy to succumb to your addiction. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth.

Marketing 366

Marketing Tactics Brand Ethics 366

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm , says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Try setting up a tent without the poles.

Mentor 40

Mentor Quality P&L Learning-by-Doing 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

They were also an example of the power of community in leadership. We often think of leadership as a solitary task. Buying into Thomas Carlyle’s “great man” theory of history , we speak of leadership in solitary and personal terms. First, great leadership often starts in community. Mahatma Gandhi, and Harriet Tubman.

Leadership 14

Leadership Hammer Short-term Simon 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

In a provocative and saucy book, It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For , Spence and coauthor Haley Rushing explain the business strategies and competitive ideas behind many of the one-of-a-kind organizations he has studied or worked with over the years, from BMW to Whole Foods Market to the U.S.

Hammer 17

Hammer Construction Advertising Brand 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

More often than not, these brands are small not because they can’t grow, but because there aren’t enough financial resources and leadership mindshare left over to truly explore their upside. This is in keeping with the Japanese proverb, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.”

Brand 14

Brand Hammer Advertising Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

American leadership in the clean-energy sector extends beyond solar and wind to natural gas, which is much cleaner than other carbon-based fuels and is abundant in the United States. American companies have had to slash their margins to compete, and their share prices have been hammered as a consequence.

Energy 15

Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Have those with MBAs specialized in strategy, marketing, or entrepreneurship? This can take many forms — an agreement that an employee can use office space and resources outside normal business hours to hammer out a side project over time, for instance, or a month-long sabbatical to let them dig into their passion all at once.

Entrepreneur 13

Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

Survey 16

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 16

Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

It also proved to provide insights into leadership, if you looked deep enough. Leadership Lessons From Pixels. You can do the same thing with leadership. Who would have thought a movie about aliens attacking us with video games could give us a leadership lesson regarding our marriages. Caution: Pixels Spoilers Ahead.

Cooper 120

Cooper Leadership Video Porter 120

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. “I did talk to that leadership development firm last year,” he said. “OK. .

Case Study 15

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

A lot of businesses have pursued social responsibility more out of their marketing departments or as some sort of charitable donation. If you start seeing everything through the impact investing lens, it starts looking like you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail. Noble: Impact investing is about strategy.

Insurance 12

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

But whether European politicians will be able to hammer out a deal. I ran into this conundrum last week, when I was interviewing another CEO interested in policy, Whole Foods Market's John Mackey, for the HBR IdeaCast (the podcast will air in January, when Mackey's new book, Conscious Capitalism , is published).

Politics 9

Politics CEO Health Care Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. This definition may seem somewhat generic.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?) Why didn't process owners stick at these organizations?

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15