Tracking the right metrics is essential to understand and measure your business growth. While some businesses may be tempted to focus exclusively on their financial growth, several other measures can be just as valuable in gauging overall success.
Category: Business Management
The Benefits Of Promoting Intrapreneurship: How To Encourage And Promote Innovation Within Your Company
Intrapreneurship is the act of creating and implementing new ideas within an existing company. It is a way to encourage and promote innovation within your organization. Promoting intrapreneurship can lead to improved productivity, creativity, and competitiveness.
5 Precious Tips To Help You Get Better At Problem Solving
The ability to solve problems is a vital skill for any entrepreneur. It’s what allows us to see potential solutions where others might only see obstacles. Problem solving is also key in helping us navigate through unexpected challenges and crises as they come up. When it comes to problem solving, practice makes perfect. How can we get better at problem solving?
Why Problem Solving is the Secret Ingredient to Business Sustainability?
You can’t fight all fires. How many businesses have succumbed to the pandemic? Many. Across geographies and industries. Some may argue that the pandemic was once in a lifetime event. But can you be sure? Hence, problem solving becomes the key to business sustainability. How well can we distinguish problems from fires? And how can we turn fires into problems?
Business Lessons from Denny Crane
Denny Crane, played by William Shatner, in the legal drama Boston Legal is one of my all-time favorite characters. Josh Bell, TV Critic for Las Vegas Weekly, describes Denny as “egomaniacal, sexually ravenous, prone to malapropisms”. That’s an apt description. In the show, Denny is a “renowned attorney of some fifty years of practice, who claims to have won 6043 cases and will never lose one”. With such an impressive resume, he sure has some life and business lessons for all of us.
A/B Testing – What can managers learn from marketers?
A/B testing or split testing is how marketers use a number of variations of a campaign. This lets them determine which performs better. As a manager, how do you know what works best? Can you do better? How can managers use A/B testing?
Are you a BAD Manager?
One of the most (ab)used and (mis)shared quotes on social networks is that “People leave managers, not companies”. This is somewhat true. People leave jobs due to bad managers. But people leave good managers too.
What makes a manager good or bad? You need to realize that the correct answer is not a definite point on a scale. Like most quality measurements, the answer would have a range. Like how sweet is a cup of tea? Or like salt to taste.
How to Hire Freshers?
How do you evaluate a job applicant without any previous job experience? The resume of a fresher does not say much about her skills. Yes, the resume has academic credentials and project summaries. It does not however give insights about the key skills required for her to do her job well. So how to hire freshers that fit the job requirements?
It’s time we disown boring company policies
When was the last time you carefully read a 21 page lengthy policy document word by word? My answer is never. Reading fine text in business and legal jargon spread over a boring, multi-page document is downright boring. It’s just about time we disown boring company policies. Time to get creative.
How to improve decision making? Reserve one chair for the Devil’s Advocate
We make too many decisions at the eleventh hour. The urgency and the pressure to decide quite often lead to incorrect decisions. When we look back at our decisions, we find out that some arguments were never made. Some doubts were never discussed. Volunteer to be the Devil in the next meeting and improve decision making.