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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted.

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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. 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?

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HR Cost Cutting Measures to Trim the Fluff

HR Digest

Use technology to do the tasks— online marketing, cutting client interactions, face to face meetings through teleconference and email. The goal of any cost-cutting exercise should be to eliminate any task whose cost of doing it exceeds the business value it provides. Cut down on duplication of processes.

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How to Avoid Collaboration Fatigue

Harvard Business Review

After all, researchers have linked collaboration to increased innovation, and many have compellingly argued for collaboration’s role in better leadership performance. For example, when your team inevitably has to choose between the lowest cost solution and the speed-enhancing solution for the supply chain, which objective wins?

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How Freelancers Can Make Sure They Get Paid on Time

Harvard Business Review

“Before you respond to a request or knock on a door in a marketing capacity, you need to establish that the company can pay you and will pay you,” he says. The best way to ensure you get paid in a timely manner is to only work for reputable, well-funded companies that treat freelancers with dignity and respect.

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An Entrepreneurial Society Needs an Entrepreneurial State

Harvard Business Review

Crucially, this will require public leadership, challenging the prevailing ideology which limits the role of public actors to simply de-risking or facilitating the real heroes — the private sector wealth creators, like risk-loving entrepreneurs — while waiting for the market to find solutions. Third, assessment.

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5 Characteristics of Digital Giants that Enable Domination

Skip Prichard

How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. In fact, many of their leaders have forgotten how they got there – mission, talent, offering, and markets. Another indication of the speed and extent of dominance is market cap.