bench strength
American-
Sports. the quality and number of players available to substitute during a game.
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Business. the competence and number of employees ready to fill vacant leadership and other positions.
building an organization's bench strength through management training.
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That creates real risks with predictable consequences: knowledge concentrated among too few people, decision-making bottlenecks, diminished bench strength, and an organization increasingly vulnerable to the absence or departure of a few individuals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Whether it is fitness, lack of tactical finesse or a shortage of bench strength, the fade is real.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024
“Deciding to leave was difficult, but made possible by my belief in the incredible bench strength of the Platform team and the company as a whole.”
From The Verge ● Jan. 7, 2022
“What I worry about is smaller hospitals that don’t have the bench strength we do.”
From Scientific American ● Apr. 8, 2020
"The firm needs to do a better job of showing their bench strength."
From Reuters ● Jul. 5, 2012
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