N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Conduct a Cost/Benefit Analysis : Do the potential benefits derived from the decision justify the expected costs? What if the costs exceed projections, and the benefits fall short of projections? What would your family think of your decision?

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Career speed bumps (much like their counterparts in the road ) can take you by surprise. Take not having the right credentials, one common career speed bump. It's easy to ignore if you are speeding along in your career with the same employer, but suddenly losing your job can send you careening out of control.

Career 8

Career Skills Cost-Benefit Analysis Banking 8

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

As many big organizations very deliberately move to more agile ways of working, leaders are finding that the controlling tendencies that helped bring them this far in their careers are less useful now. We try to help leaders make a very rational cost/benefit analysis about what clinging to the raft is costing them.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Analysis Tips 98

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

Early in my career, I dutifully signed up to attend 500-person networking breakfasts, because “that’s what you do” as a businessperson. Every networking event should be subjected to a cost-benefit analysis: if you weren’t here, what would you be doing, instead? Career planning Managing yourself Networking'

Cost-Benefit Analysis 21

Cost-Benefit Analysis Conference Follow-up Planning 21

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In a dynamic economy workers are expected to adapt, to change not just jobs but sometimes careers, to pick up new skills when necessary. If a program has a low cost per student but fails to actually help people forge a solid career, then the fact that the failure is cheap does not make it any less of a failure.

Metrics 11

Metrics TCO Training Cost-Benefit Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

With nowhere further to go, he revealed the inadequacy he had been so anxious to conceal, perversely sabotaging his own career in order to fulfill his belief that he wasn’t up to the top job. Could he do a “cost-benefit analysis” of what it meant to be successful? For example, how did he envision success?

Cost-Benefit Analysis 9

Cost-Benefit Analysis Pharmaceuticals CEO Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Do a cost/benefit analysis. While it can feel unfair to have to make a career decision because of a morally deficient boss, doing so can sometimes lead you in the right direction, if a bit faster than you otherwise would have preferred. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears. Reactive Actions.

Morale 8

Morale Cost-Benefit Analysis Document CEO 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

And yet, before working on Jim's piece, the cost-benefit analysis I'd done in my head (unscientific, not math-based, of course) suggested that whatever effort it took to gather and analyze the data probably wouldn't reveal anything new. I decided to test if I was more or less productive while wearing headphones.

Cost-Benefit Analysis 9

Cost-Benefit Analysis Learning-by-Doing Products Productivity 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

Over 70% of freelancers have trouble getting paid at some point in their careers, according to research by the Freelancers Union , the non-profit group, that promotes the interests of independent workers. .” And yet, even if you do everything right, clients can still be frustratingly late with their payments.

Long-term 8

Long-term Follow-up Project Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Myth #7: People are scared to come out just because of career risks. Coming out is a constant cost-benefit analysis and requires weighing different risks. But our research also shows that respondents are more concerned about social exclusion than career penalty.

Diversity 12

Diversity Policies Cost-Benefit Analysis Participative 12

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

This enables competition and removes barriers to entry by lower switching costs. Apply a cost benefit analysis. Too often policy makers will use the battle against digital giants to further their political careers without taking a holistic view of the market. ” -Jack Welch.

Disintermediation 131

Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 131