Lead Change Blog

JULY 21, 2016

Think about it: what would a company be like without top-down leadership to set goals and priorities, direct resources and operations, plan strategies, and make sure those strategies are being implemented? So it does work.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I find myself hammering out emails at 11PM on Sunday with the TV on and my phone lighting up with messages. Last month, Kona was in San Francisco meeting Arnold Ambiel , Director of Operations for One World Futbol. Without the temptation of the internet and fewer gadgets, there seems to be more hours in the day. In the U.S.,

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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. In small businesses, however, there are fewer decision-makers, and they’re so close to customers, employees and daily operations that they can get a sense of whether a decision is right or wrong very quickly.

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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. In small businesses, however, there are fewer decision-makers, and they’re so close to customers, employees and daily operations that they can get a sense of whether a decision is right or wrong very quickly.

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Customer Intimacy Hammer Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing 116

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

.  In the latest installment to his Little Big Things video series Tom Peters declares war on these systems and encourages managers to make it easy for all members of an organization to identify problems with an organization's systems and provide bottom-up feedback for improving the way the company operates.

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 Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Small businesses that fail to do this can get hammered by unforeseen costs, go into steep debt, and potentially close completely. Cash flow from operations for XYZ Company. Net cash from operations. Growing too fast – While this seems counterintuitive it’s actually incredibly common for new businesses. Net income.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

Much of the modern business tools and systems are so intuitive that there is less manual input or operation than ever while maintaining excellent quality. Instead of accepting that there is one way of doing things, it’s always beneficial to seek out upgraded technologies that could improve your business’ overall operation.

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RapidStart Leadership

JULY 6, 2017

To be re-active is to automatically react to the stimuli around you, the same way that gunpowder explodes, or your leg kicks out when the doctor taps your knee with his little hammer. Build in some operating space. There’s no thought involved. It just happens. All too often, human reactions to conflict can be counter-productive.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 17, 2019

You should consider ways to reduce operational expenses. Also, you can consider the shift from in-house to cloud operations to cut overheads. You may have to send lots of emails and hammer the phones. The first step in cutting costs should begin with a complete audit of the existing expenses.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

During his interrogation, CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy (Sanaa Lathan) had a team of CIA operatives crash the interrogation and kill the terrorists. Great leaders know what they’re looking for: Irene was looking for a new black operative. She leveled the truth hammer. Mitch Rapp: Got to Mansur. Annika saw his bruises.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Chess supremo Garry Kasparov famously noted after his battles with IBM’s Deep Blue, that an intermediate human player teamed with a computer was better than either an expert human or a super-machine operating independently.

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Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 83

You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

There is a proverb that says, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives. In organizations, we have this tendency to create silos of operation where people make decisions based only on their own needs.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2020

Such incidents are common in the businesses that deal with mechanical tools that include, drill machines, hammers, wedges, saws, glass, and other sharp objects. Especially, small or medium business needs to operate efficiently by making 100 percent use of every inch of their working place.

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Merchandising Document Industry Cost 65

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation. Pipp’s documentation of the striking difference in the assembly process within Toyota, by comparison to Ford, was to be found again in the early 1980s when teams from both Ford and General Motors began to routinely visit Toyota’s operations in Japan. .

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#. This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives. In organizations, we have this tendency to create silos of operation where people make decisions based only on their own needs.

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Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The receptionist or telephone operator. 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. Video proof is the new proof.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Government is like a sledge hammer. It is only good at one thing, and the use of a sledgehammer is obvious. However, when you are a sledgehammer, every problem tends to look like a cinder block in need of smashing. What a surprise, with former Monsanto executive Vilsek as the Secretary of Agriculture.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

In his 1990 classic HBR article " Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate ," Michael Hammer argued that IT must drive radical process innovation. Hammer nonetheless argued for using the power of information technology to redesign a cross-functional process, then deal with the people issues.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In a timeframe in which mating parts in this car plant could not be assembled without hammers, Pipp directed his staff to purchase competitors cars and take them apart. ” Shocked by the results, he instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation. ” The remaining parts required mallets to assemble.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure. .’ Great organizations encourage risk-taking. Because innovation requires it. There can be no reward without risk.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers. can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail. Consider the competition between push and pull camps in a major oil company.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. These operational analytics are embedded, prescriptive, automated, and run at scale to directly drive business decisions. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

trillion market by 2020 — lay in its ability to operate with little or no “human intervention.” As cognitive scientists put it things like hammers became a part of the body’s “extended periphery” and are “functionally a component of the [subjects’] smoothly coping IDS.”. So, what might a “handy” IoT offering look like?

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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. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

They're using hammers where scalpels are required. The Munson decision demonstrated "that there is no nexus between the percentage of funds retained by the fundraiser and the likelihood that the solicitation is fraudulent.". The criminal justice and law enforcement sectors must try harder.

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Proposal Telemarketing Hammer Report 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” A major cause of this is that managers within these teams approach the task from their own functional-management view, e.g. finance, HR, marketing, operations. Busá Photography/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. These operational analytics are embedded, prescriptive, automated, and run at scale to directly drive business decisions.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock.

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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. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They’re “traditional” matchmaker businesses that have been operating platforms for connecting different groups of customers. But they also face significant risk from startups that use new technologies to operate more-powerful, more-efficient, and more-scalable platforms.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

If they didn't, the only way you can profit from your sales operation is by reducing costs. As the old saying goes, "When you sell hammers, every problem looks like a nail." My former boss and sales guru Neil Rackham has a simple test for this: He asks, "Would your customer write you a check for the sales call?"

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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.

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