Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Any other career advice you recommend for finding the right career, goals, growth, or changing careers? Any other career advice you recommend for finding the right career, goals, growth, or changing careers? Set career goals and understand salary benchmarks. When you do that, work feels a lot less like work.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

And I think that making sure that you constantly work with focus and discipline, and always, always follow up are crucial ingredients of getting the results you want – whether you’re launching a start-up, leading a team of employees, or going after that big promotion. I can’t afford to have people on the team who are undependable.

Bottom-up 50

Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

While we would be naive if we didn’t acknowledge politics as a potentially destructive force, when deployed effectively it can help the company meet its strategic goals and live up to its values, especially during organizational change. But conversely, the sharp edges of hard power can wreck a plan. Defining politics.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8