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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. The more people develop leadership and followership skills, the more successful they will be. Followers Get Things Done Better followership often begets better leadership.

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Intangible Loss of Outsourced Innovation

Mills Scofield

I’ve wondered about the cost-benefit equation of in vs. outsourcing for a while. Most cost-benefit analysis focuses on tangibles: lower labor rates, higher freight, etc. I don’t know. Perhaps because they learned to?

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The fact of the matter is that senior executives who rise to the C-suite do so largely based upon their ability to consistently make sound decisions. Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. As much as you may wish it wasn’t so, as a CEO you’re really only as good as your last decision.

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Influencing Up

Marshall Goldsmith

By developing your ability to present ideas, and not blaming management for not buying your ideas, you accomplish much more. Don't assume that executives can automatically 'make the connection' between the benefit to your unit and the benefit to the larger corporation. In some cases they are not.

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Effectively Influencing Decision Makers: Ensuring That Your Knowledge Makes a Difference

Marshall Goldsmith

If more time were spent on developing our ability to present ideas, and less time were spent on blaming others for not buying our ideas, a lot more might get accomplished. Don’t assume that executives can automatically “make the connection” between the benefit to your unit and the benefit to the larger corporation.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

You see, while creativity is a clearly a valuable asset, unbridled creativity where random, disparate ideas abound outside of a sound decisioning and execution framework will create distraction and chaos much more often than they will lead to innovation. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity.

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How to Do Walking Meetings Right

Harvard Business Review

However, look at these findings through the lens of a cost-benefit analysis. The costs associated with regularly participating in walking meetings are next to nil. This aids executive function, which governs how we focus on tasks and deal with unforeseen events, among other things. Most likely not.

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