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Hidden Costs 25

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Hidden Costs 25 As a business leader, if you think “costs” are only the ones where you spend real money, think again. Have you ever realized the costs of: having an inefficient leadership team? analysis-and-planning-paralysis? These are costs too!

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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. In my opinion the practice of leadership identification is simply based upon flawed business logic, and it is make-work in the purest form.

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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. Show me someone who hasn’t made a bad decision and I’ll show you someone who is either not being honest, or someone who avoids decisioning at all costs, which by the way, constitutes a bad decision. They make bad decisions.

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Building Trust Through Behavioral Integrity

Great Leadership By Dan

Chris Edmonds : Cornell University professor Dr. Tony Simons’ powerful article, “ The High Cost of Lost Trust ,” appeared in the Harvard Business Review in 2002. Their research methods and analysis discovered: ? Their analysis found that a 1/8 point gain on this scale generated a profit gain of 2.5% Guest post from S.

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Contingency Planning | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Miller Mike, In this speed-at-all-costs world we've created, there is a complete lack of Plan B. Smart leaders will do everything in their power to keep a decreae in velocity from becoming a self imposed adversary due to a lack of contingency planning.

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Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In the end, leadership that adopts politically correct behavior and thinking places themselves and their organizations at great peril. A generic thought, ambivalence, attempting to fly under the radar, and mediocre performance will place you squarely in my cross hairs and may cost you your job. What say you?

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Simple Steps to Embrace Ambiguity and Lead Significant Change

Lead Change Blog

Inaction and waiting costs organizations money, productivity and leader confidence. A 2010 ACHE study of more than 42 organizations found that top performing leadership teams spent more time in project implementation than they did on project analysis.