What is Your Job Description at Work?

Before the game, analyze the information and gather intelligence. During the game, provide strategic advice. Afterward, assist with the post-game review.

What do you actually need to review? The data. Your job is to help the boss identify which factors subtly influence the probability of winning or losing, down to the numbers.

You need to let big data speak—make decisions that might improve the win rate by one percentage point, or prevent it from dropping by one point. That's what you're here to do.

What else? The follow-on impact on both liquidity and morale from this round of losses, and how to lay out specific defensive counterattack steps to manage the damage.

In short: how to keep losses from spiraling, and how to find opportunities to make back what you've lost.

The first rule of talent is knowing when to act—you need to know what's expected of you, what to say in front of everyone, and how to play along.