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Changes In Job-Related Training Since Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

in 2011 to 6.4 “It appears that these general declines apply across industries, with the exception of the construction and wholesale & retail sectors where expenditure per trainee appears to have risen between 2011 and 2017, though average days per trainee declined in these sectors.” in 2011 to 6.4

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How to Lead Like a Pig

Next Level Blog

In a truly innovative move, the new management team rewrote the employee handbook giving the green light to profanity and dirty jokes “because a loose, fun, nonlinear atmosphere is important to the creative process. With the newspaper industry being what it is, the employees of the Trib had some choices to make. What about you?

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Being sharp means being succinct. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp).

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. We’ve established a strong correlation between coherence, as we define it, and superior performance over time in a number of industries. Finally, many industries are responding to the pressures of the last few years by differentiating themselves.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. Knowledge management Managing people Productivity'

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Until a few years ago Steve Cronce’s Raphael Industries did $1 million dollars a year of specialized industrial painting for customers within driving distance of their plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. In the photography industry, Leica provides a sharp example of how adding new capabilities can help a company reverse free fall. Build a Re-Founding Team.