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How to Solve Our Wild Problems

Leading Blog

T HERE ARE PROBLEMS that can be solved by a simple cost-benefit analysis. Flourishing includes living and acting with integrity, virtue, purpose, meaning, dignity, and autonomy—aspects of life that are not just difficult to quantify but that you might put front and center, regardless of the cost.”. Sunk costs are sunk.

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How to Make the Business Case for Change

Lead Change Blog

If future cost savings will fund the initiative, show the payback calculation. Provide a cost-benefit analysis. Include non-financial costs and benefits along with the financial ones. Learn to build a business case for your change initiatives. Define the problem. A lack of clarity slows it down.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Maintaining our social infrastructure also requires know-how, because we must develop ground rules that make our social practices sustainable. Gioia supported Ford’s decision at the time, based on a plausible cost-benefit analysis. They will respond to ethical reasoning and can learn to apply it themselves.

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The Leader as Witness

Lead Change Blog

It means I have a job to do and not just a label to wear.” Followers don’t learn what matters from conversation; they learn from observation. We can do the paperwork later.” . What kind of response do you think he got the next time he asked this customer for a suggestion? The word “witness” has a double meaning.

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Intangible Loss of Outsourced Innovation

Mills Scofield

I’ve been thinking about the 2 nd , 3 rd order effects of outsourcing, especially now that some companies are either doing or seriously considering insourcing. I’ve wondered about the cost-benefit equation of in vs. outsourcing for a while. I agree with many who believe we learn by doing.

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Take It, Leave It, or Change It

The Recovering Engineer

The decision was to do a “cost-benefit analysis&# of our new situation. If it was more negative, we needed to develop a plan to leave the situation. He has spent many years learning to connect and communicate with other people more effectively. Learn More… What Do You Think?

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The fact of the matter is that senior executives who rise to the C-suite do so largely based upon their ability to consistently make sound decisions. Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision.

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