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The Transformative Power of Positive Leadership

General Leadership

In tangible terms, a project initially forecast to span 70 years and cost taxpayers $36 billion was completed 60 years ahead of schedule and $29 billion dollars under budget… a feat the government’s own General Accounting office declared unlikely, if not impossible.… … Read the rest.

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Resourcefulness Matters: How to Help Your Team Be More Resourceful

Let's Grow Leaders

Like other human resource competencies, resourcefulness needs to be taught and nurtured, through deliberate focus and training. 7 Ways to Help Your Team Be More Resourceful. So how do you teach and encourage resourcefulness in your leaders and on your team? But they just didn’t have the same budget.

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10 Stupid Games that Managers Play

Great Leadership By Dan

We’ll start with some silly budgeting games: 1. Use it or lose it budgeting.” This is when you are getting close to the end of the year and your budget is running under your forecast. In previous years, when you underspent, your next year’s budget was set based on that year’s actual. Pass the trash.”

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Leadership in Cybersecurity

N2Growth Blog

Budgeting & forecasting. Human resource leadership. Obtaining an effective security budget is a constant battle. If the security budget is measured against a percentage of the IT budget, this creates an ineffective security posture for the business. Vendor management. Network systems security.

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7 Guiding Principles for Developing Leadership Talent

Leading Blog

And you should “review people as thoroughly and regularly as you review operations, business performance, strategy, and budgets.”. A business partnership with human resources. Your talent assessment/development systems should have as much “rigor and repeatability as systems used for finance and operations.”

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Six Resolutions for a Winning Corporate Culture

Chart Your Course

A 2012 survey by human resource firm LRN Corporation found that bosses who genuinely trusted their workers and gave them more autonomy saw these benefits: less misconduct and absenteeism, as well as greater engagement, innovation, customer service and financial growth. Establish trust. Think outside the box. Calling all mentors.

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The Best Things in Business are Free

In the CEO Afterlife

Whining about the economy, budget constraints, and low-cost competition does nothing to improve a company’s strategic health. Human Resources Leadership Life Strategy Apple Business Chanel Coco Chanel Culture Google In-N-Out Burger Innovation Patagonia Red Bull Steve Jobs Zappos' But, beware.