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Topic: Michael Hammer

  
INNOVATION   |  Comment

Who Has the Next Big Idea?

BY Daniel H. Pink
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:29 AM

Michael Hammer, consultant, author, evangelical business revolutionary, unleashed reengineering on an unsuspecting public in the early 1990s. Now he's back -- with a new book, a new agenda, and a bunch of new ideas. Be afraid. Be redeemed. Or be both.READ»

Kenan Samms
CHANGE   |  6 comments

The Soft Stuff is the Hard Stuff

BY Seth Kahan
Relevancy Score: 97
Thu Aug 28, 2008 at 3:03 AM

In 1999 I was Communications Manager for the World Bank's enterprise resource planning (erp) initiative. We were gutting over 100 disconnected systems and replacing them with a single real-time application. At the behest of ...READ»

IDEAS   |  9 comments

Thought Leaders: A Top 20 List


Relevancy Score: 74
Wed Aug 20, 2003 at 8:48 PM

Who are the most influential business gurus? In a recent book, What's The Big Idea, a couple of authors rank the top 200 thought leaders in business by using a rather wacky methodology. They combined Google hits, media mentions, and ...READ»

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE   |  3 comments

The Fad That Forgot People

BY Thomas H. Davenport
Relevancy Score: 70
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:35 PM

One of reengineering's creators explains the iron triangle that turned a modest idea into a destructive fad -- and offers advice on how to avoid the next one.READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  Comment

Forward to Basics

BY Michael Hammer
Relevancy Score: 67
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:37 AM

Operational innovation isn't glamorous. It doesn't come up at cocktail parties. But it's the only way to win in the post-new economy reality.READ»

CHANGE AGENTS   |  Comment

The New Guy

BY Keith Ferrazzi
Relevancy Score: 64
Tue Jul 8, 2008 at 5:49 PM

The way you manage the first weeks with a new employee can boost someone's entire career. And if you're the new guy, there's no better time to make new relationships and start your career off in the right direction. READ»

INNOVATION   |  2 comments

Where Has All the Ambition Gone?

BY James Champy
Relevancy Score: 60
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:43 AM

Where has all the ambition gone? There's a growling bear in the marketplace of ideas.READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Can Leadership Be Learned?

BY Mark Sarner
Relevancy Score: 55
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 9:14 AM

The principles of leadership remain constant; it's how leadership is put into practice that keeps getting smarter.READ»

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FAQs of Life in the New Economy

BY The Founding Editors
Relevancy Score: 39
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:30 AM

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

BUSINESS BOOKS   |  1 comment

Fast Company Library

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 33
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:41 AM

Books previously featured in Fast Company (2001)READ»

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE   |  Comment

Beyond Reengineering

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 32
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:39 AM

From our first issue forward, Fast Company has tackled the ideas of reengineering, restructuring, and rethinking how business works. Here are some of our best stories about big-business change.READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  1 comment

Hidden Asset

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 28
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:46 AM

Thomas Davenport has helped midwife some of the biggest trends to have shaped business over the past 25 years--among them, reengineering and knowledge management. Now he's asking: Where do ideas come from? And how do they get traction? Here's his eight-point plan for winning with ideas.READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

God and Mammon at Harvard

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 25
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:53 AM

Harvard's B-school has some competition across the Charles River: the divinity school, which is turning out a new flock of spiritually minded business leaders.READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Change

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 19
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:43 PM

Change: Few can do it. Few can sustain it. Few can survive it.READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

What Is the State of the New Economy?

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 19
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:30 AM

Our third annual report on the State of the New Economy.READ»

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Best of the Worst ... Year Ever

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 15
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:41 AM

Fast Company's most popular and powerful magazine stories of 2001.READ»

BUSINESS BOOKS   |  1 comment

Was <em>Built To Last</em> Built To Last?

BY Jennifer Reingold and Ryan Underwood
Relevancy Score: 14
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:47 AM

It's one of the most influential business books of our era, and it helped turn coauthor Jim Collins into a management rock star. But how well have the companies it lionized and the principles it espoused stood the test of time?READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Andrew Cuomo, Turnaround CEO

BY Ronald Brownstein
Relevancy Score: 13
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 11:52 PM

The HUD secretary is borrowing ideas from business to reinvent one of Washington's most maligned agencies.READ»

EMPLOYEE RETENTION   |  Comment

How Do You Feel?

BY Tony Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 13
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:15 AM

"Emotional intelligence" is starting to find its way into companies, offering employees a way to come to terms with their feelings -- and to perform better. But as the field starts to grow, some worry that it could become just another fad.READ»