Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Career speed bumps (much like their counterparts in the road ) can take you by surprise. If you don't slow down to navigate and learn from them, they can trip you up again and again. Take not having the right credentials, one common career speed bump. A word of advice: Before you sign up for an online degree, do your research.

Career 8

Career Skills Cost-Benefit Analysis Banking 8

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. Most existing training programs do try to assess their effectiveness. Many measure cost per student. Some are excellent; others, not so much. That lack of knowledge is costly.

Metrics 11

Metrics TCO Training Cost-Benefit Analysis 11

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

The Changing Expectations for Followers There was a time in the not too distant past when followership essentially meant, “be quiet and do whatever I tell you to do.” So understanding what constitutes effective followership and then exhibiting those behaviors can help improve a person’s career prospects.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Do a cost/benefit analysis. Do you want to keep your job? Confrontation or sounding an alarm is not a good way to do that. Avoid labeling the deceit as such, and do not be accusatory. Put on your curiosity hat — remember, you might learn something. Weeks went by, and you heard nothing.

Morale 8

Morale Cost-Benefit Analysis Document CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I'm sure this is in part because I fear what I'll learn. 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 like to go by feel.

Cost-Benefit Analysis 9

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

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

What can you do to make sure that your invoices are handled promptly? ” And yet, even if you do everything right, clients can still be frustratingly late with their payments. So if your paycheck doesn’t arrive on time, “You think, what did I do wrong?” Do your homework.

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Long-term Follow-up Project Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Myth #3: LGBTIQ+ workers have complete control over whether they do or don’t come out at work. ” Myth #4: Coming out has nothing to do with work. 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.

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Diversity Policies Cost-Benefit Analysis Participative 12