The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Covid-19 has been many things, but the digital transformation it has encouraged has been significant, whether due to the newly remote workforces, the urgent need for online sales channels, or the need for cloud-based technologies to maintain business operations. Redesigning the business.

Supply Chain 85

Supply Chain Technology Hammer Report 85

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. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. In organizations, we have this tendency to create silos of operation where people make decisions based only on their own needs. It can get pretty complex.

Learning Organization 63

Learning Organization Organization Senge Learning-by-Doing 63

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The receptionist or telephone operator. 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.

ROI 50

ROI Customer Loyalty Airlines Hammer 50

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Government is like a sledge hammer. and a Winner Announced Blog powered by TypePad Member since 09/2007 Author Chris Bradys Leadership Blog Chris Bradys Home Page Chris Bradys Rascal Tweets Chris Bradys FaceBook Chris Bradys YouTube Chris Bradys Fan Page-Rascal Nation Chris Brady on LinkedIn

Politics 77

Politics Blog Travel Letter 77

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

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. I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership.

Prahalad 17

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

Survey 15

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 15

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Leadership is also laced with a lot of beliefs that lead to doses of solutions. We start with a standard definition of leadership—influencing people to act toward achieving a goal. Let us examine a few popular leadership “tonics.” ” Leadership Sarsaparilla. Here are a few solutions.

Influence 221

Influence Maslow Incentives Hammer 221

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Far too often, leaders who are closing or shrinking an operation take the old tough guy approach. If the operation being closed or downsized is large or historically important to the company, the CEO should make at least one visit. In some cases, that might mean keeping an operation open longer than you initially wanted.

Hammer 8

Hammer Operations Quality Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The team wasn’t perfect, but it was still operating at a pretty high level. “I did talk to that leadership development firm last year,” he said. Lance knew that as part of this process he’d need to examine his own leadership. ” “The holdup with Clarkson? Of course I have. “OK. .

Case Study 15

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

When I ask leadership development clients to describe the type of motivation they’d like to see in their teams, they mention qualities such as persistence, being a self-starter, having a sense of accountability for and commitment to achieving results, and being willing to go the extra mile on projects or to help other team members.

Motivation 8

Motivation Hammer Video Objective 8

Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A Reel Leadership Article Imagine you’ve just proposed to the love of your life. But what can American Assassin teach you about leadership? Let’s take a look at the leadership lessons in American Assassin. Leadership Lessons And Quotes From American Assassin. You’ve gone up to the bar to order drinks.

Leadership 127

Leadership Team Hammer Process 127

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems. If you start seeing everything through the impact investing lens, it starts looking like you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail. Corporate social responsibility Leadership Social enterprise' We don’t want to go there.

Insurance 11

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

They may be flesh and blood to the senior team and the assistants in the C-suite, but to people in outer orbits, from operational departments to business units, they are imaginary constructs. He instructed employees to take hammers in hand — not to fix the flaws but to destroy the imperfect products. They’re mental images.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate CEO Insurance Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. Leadership: the percentage of executive time that gets devoted to mentor­ing innovation projects, and 360-degree survey results that reveal the extent to which execu­tives are exhibiting pro-innovation behaviors.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#. It can get pretty complex. What do you think?

Learning Organization 56

Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

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. These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs. And they succeeded wildly. from 2004 to 2007.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15