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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by John Hooker : Everyone knows that an organization can’t function without physical infrastructure communications, transportation, computer technology, and the rest. Maintaining our social infrastructure also requires know-how, because we must develop ground rules that make our social practices sustainable.

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How Does Public Transport Affect Greenhouse Gases?

The Horizons Tracker

The data collected allows them to understand where riders enter and exit the public transport system, which even though not all passengers use the technology allows the team to provide a reasonable estimate of total usage patterns. “Now we can truly quantify trips in both time and space,” they explain. ”

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time. What if the costs exceed projections, and the benefits fall short of projections?

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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A Better Metric for the Value of a Worker Training Program

Harvard Business Review

The United States has thousands of workforce development and training programs, run by the public, social, and private sectors. But according to the World Bank , only 30% of youth employment programs are successful, with many of those offering only marginal benefit. Some are excellent; others, not so much.

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If Data Is Money, Why Don’t Businesses Keep It Secure?

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, trust erosion triggered by Edward Snowden’s revelations of government surveillance in mid-2013 are estimated to have cost U.S. technology companies as much as $35 billion in potential business. At the same time, several technology platforms that do not collect or share personal data have emerged since mid-2013.