6 Strategies to Help Your Company Weather Inflation
Summary: Productivity. Productivity. Productivity.
13 Things Resilient People Do | Psychology Today
Curious how resilient people function? Here are 13 things they do well!
KPIs Aren’t Just About Assessing Past Performance
Summary: Many companies track KPIs as a way of predicting performance. To really exploit the predictive power of KPIs, though, you need to map how the KPIs for your key stakeholders feed into each other and ultimately into financial performance.
Why people are good at avoiding unpleasant information
In some situations, people may avoid information they’d otherwise say is important to them—such as the number of calories in a dish at a restaurant or the manufacturing practices behind a potential product purchase. Why reduce our enjoyment by entertaining unwanted facts?
Invisible asymptotes
My first job at Amazon was as the first analyst in strategic planning, the forward-looking counterpart to accounting, which records what already happened. We maintained several time horizons for our forward forecasts, from granular monthly forecasts to quarterly and annual forecasts to even five and ten year forecasts for the purposes of fund-raising and, well, strategic planning.
Top executives need feedback—here’s how they can get it
As executives become more senior, they are less likely to receive constructive performance and strategic feedback. They can get it by calling on their junior colleagues.
Good People, Big Dreams. Growing the new generation of engineers…
In 2019, Lemonade’s R&D demands started growing more rapidly than ever. As we entered this stage of hyper-growth, two things became abundantly clear. First, we needed more engineers. Second, highly experienced engineers are really hard to recruit.