Sort of a side question: If someone running a company claimed to do all the things in these comments "looking towards the future", "strategy", "investor relations", "business optimization" how would you disprove that?
"Investor relations" and "strategy" sound vague, but in this context they refer to concrete and unambiguous things. If you're not regularly standing in front of investors and showing them slide decks, you're not doing investor relations; if you're not regularly talking to senior leaders to discuss the industry and suggest new initiatives, you're not doing strategy.
"Looking towards the future" and "business optimization" are more squishy, and you can't really specifically disprove that someone's doing them on an ongoing basis. But you can often disprove it retrospectively, if you see that the business is run increasingly poorly or clearly failed to account for some big new trend.
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Sort of a side question: If someone running a company claimed to do all the things in these comments "looking towards the future", "strategy", "investor relations", "business optimization" how would you disprove that?
"Investor relations" and "strategy" sound vague, but in this context they refer to concrete and unambiguous things. If you're not regularly standing in front of investors and showing them slide decks, you're not doing investor relations; if you're not regularly talking to senior leaders to discuss the industry and suggest new initiatives, you're not doing strategy.
"Looking towards the future" and "business optimization" are more squishy, and you can't really specifically disprove that someone's doing them on an ongoing basis. But you can often disprove it retrospectively, if you see that the business is run increasingly poorly or clearly failed to account for some big new trend.