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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Retaining quality and impact: Increased flexibility where training retains certain principles such as a clear link to the labour market, work-based learning, independent accreditation and assessment, and capturing outputs for individuals, employers, and the economy. Flexibility and open spend: Under this system any levy incurred above 0.5%

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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Retaining quality and impact: Increased flexibility where training retains certain principles such as a clear link to the labour market, work-based learning, independent accreditation and assessment, and capturing outputs for individuals, employers, and the economy. Flexibility and open spend: Under this system any levy incurred above 0.5%

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How to Stop Micromanaging Your Team

Harvard Business Review

Micromanaging is a hard habit to break. If you’re the kind of boss who lasers in on details, prefers to be cc’ed on emails, and is rarely satisfied with your team’s work, then—there’s no kind way to say this— you’re a micromanager. How should you prioritize what matters?

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The Mistakes PE Firms Make When They Pick CEOs for Portfolio Companies

Harvard Business Review

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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A Short History of Radio Explains the iPhone’s Success

Harvard Business Review

Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. ” The interference problem was the stated premise, but the object of regulators’ desire — and of the interests they loved (or feared) most — was control over wireless markets. Armstrong’s Killer App.

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Is Your Sales Organization Good or Great?

Harvard Business Review

In addition, the senior leadership team typically does not micromanage their sales teams below. Instead, there is independent and autonomous local decision making that operates within the guidelines and protocols established by the leaders above. for the own failings. They Suspend Negative Belief Systems.

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Intellect…an Asset or Liability? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Always appreciate your insights Peter… [link] mikemyatt Hi Elliot: The four items mentioned in your list regrettably happen to exist in many domains far beyond the engineering field. In my experience is always seems to boil down to focus – a person is either focused inwardly or outwardly.

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