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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. A code that’s not enforced quickly becomes a lie that undermines your entire operation. Consequences. Consequences put teeth in a code.

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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 benefits are higher revenue, greater profits, and bonuses. The costs are largely unknown because it is unclear whether any defects exist and, if so, how they might affect the customer. It is 5 p.m.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Gioia supported Ford’s decision at the time, based on a plausible cost-benefit analysis. Yet the flaws in Ford’s analysis are immediately evident to someone properly trained in ethical reasoning. Employees and managers in the autonomy stage are ready for mature leadership. It arrives in mature adulthood, if at all.

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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. There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. 5 Leadership Frequencies. What Leaders Tolerate.

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HR Cost Cutting Measures to Trim the Fluff

HR Digest

Cutting costs is the oft-repeated phrase that companies are using to meet the downturn in the economy and the declining revenues and sales. For most, cost-cutting translates to job cuts in the organization. But there are other ways to tighten the belt and do operational budgeting. Retain Talent.

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The Leader as Witness

Lead Change Blog

Steve, take this money to the CVS at the end of the block and buy us a big battery operated wall clock to put on the wall right there. 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 responded.

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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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