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Promotions at Work

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Performance review seasons can be tough for people managers. At some point in our career, we will face the unpleasant task of telling someone they do not meet the expectations to be promoted or even worse, that they do but there isn’t an available position. How do you articulate an answer to the question “what do I do to get promoted” when the odds are not fully in your hands? Why do our managers’ answers to these questions never seem satisfactory?

Why do CAC and LTV matter?

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Back when I was practising case studies for consulting interviews, someone told me that the solutions to most, if not all, usual business case problems can be found by evaluating this equation: Profit = Revenue - Cost.

Revenue can be further broken down into its parts: price and quantity, cost split into variable or fixed costs. These four components of the profitability equation yield a surprising amount of insight into a company’s business model.

Navigating leadership

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The first time I heard the call of leadership duty was when I was explaining the context and motivations behind a huge tedious regulatory project and halfway through, I realized that people were listening. Not with the usual glazed eyes and the non-committal “I heard you” nods but with the intense gaze of a team who was hungry and ready to rally behind a flag I did not know I possessed. It was more an honest plea rather than a war cry on my part - I sensed that the team was tired, we had a momentous task at hand and I gathered the words to try to make sense of it for them, as I would have done for myself.