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How to Evaluate, Accept, Reject, or Negotiate a Job Offer

Harvard Business

“Also, look at what you will be doing, what success looks like, and what benchmarks you’ll be judged against,” he says. If nothing more, this exercise is useful in helping you realize that you have options. Case Study #1: Do due diligence on salary considerations and be open to making trade-offs.

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Five Ways to Spur Lean in the Office

Markovitz Consulting

If meeting takt time is not an issue—for example, in closing the books at the end of the month— then measure and benchmark the time it takes to perform those tasks and challenge the team to figure out how to do them faster. The simple exercise of focused observation will help you see the waste. Obsess over quality.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.