Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

A clear job description for each role serves as a benchmark for identifying the skill gaps that training can address. For example, if you plan to implement a new POS system, training will be required to ensure all staff are comfortable with the change. It starts by defining the roles within your business.

Training 91

Training Mentor How To Technology 91

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator gives you no-nonsense how-to advice and examples that have worked. It will encompass the goals and benchmarks you need to achieve during this time period. Yes, a rifle or laser-sharp approach will take more planning and forethought, but in the end you’ll probably save time and resources.

Bottom-up 50

Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. It’s a ‘sharp pencil’ capabilities system rooted in superior information. For example, in China, markets are still highly regulated, and domestic players protected. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. Set career goals and understand salary benchmarks. This will keep you competitive and relevant.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

When she's not at work managing a portfolio that consistently outperforms relevant benchmarks, you can find her at home buying and bearing bonds. While there may be 1 in 5 women for whom learning to invest is simply an exercise in sharp shooting, for the remaining 80%, I suspect it really is their first rodeo.

Finance 8

Finance P&L Due Diligence Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

For example, it may be the case that a manager needs to exert a large amount of pressure on a team to get something done by using the power of their position over others. But conversely, the sharp edges of hard power can wreck a plan. They also have a greater impact on organizational outcomes. It can be a good thing.

Politics 11

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

A sharp, shared definition of innovation. Historical benchmarks are of limited value when a product has no antecedents, and it’s hard to pin down the future value of an idea that exists only as a concept. To manage innovation in a systematic way, you have to have a widely understood definition of innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8