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The FBI Way: The Seven C’s of Excellence

Leading Blog

Too often, when organizations have their most important standards challenged, they engage in a cost-benefit analysis to decide whether to defend their core values. And there is the clarity of purpose and principle that help you to know when to say yes and when to walk away. Consequences.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge. They make bad decisions.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

One of the managers involved in the affair was an idealistic young man named Dennis Gioia, who went into the auto industry to make a contribution to society. Gioia supported Ford’s decision at the time, based on a plausible cost-benefit analysis. It arrives in mature adulthood, if at all.

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Ethical Leaders And Workplace Culture: The Foundation Of Ethical Decision Making

Great Leadership By Dan

29 and the chief operating officer (COO) meets with the production manager about a major shipment of product to a customer. The COO tells the production manager to ship the product within the next two days to ensure it is counted as revenue in the current year. What should the production manager do? It is 5 p.m. Responsibility.

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The Leader as Witness

Lead Change Blog

asked manager Butch Clarke of a loyal customer one day as the customer was picking up a print job. If you did a cost-benefit analysis on some of the items on our shelves, you’d see the demand is way too low to make these items profitable,” says owner Gary Meschi. Butch is famous for his unique ways of querying customers.

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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

” Those words are printed on the back cover of Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Competitive Advantage. I followed up with the authors to learn more about their leadership philosophy. But you should pick a longer time horizon for calculating ROI on your leadership choices.