Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Maintaining our social infrastructure also requires know-how, because we must develop ground rules that make our social practices sustainable. The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics. This means that ethics is serious business. When does cost saving become worker exploitation?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

T HERE ARE PROBLEMS that can be solved by a simple cost-benefit analysis. The big decisions in life, what Russ Roberts calls Wild Problems — whether to marry, who to marry, what career path to follow, ethical dilemmas — “can’t be made with data, or science, or the usual rational approaches.”. Sunk costs are sunk.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 10, 2018

Ethical corners were cut. If the greater good couldn’t be quantified in a cost benefit analysis, it wasn’t important. Hang onto generosity, reciprocity, and ethical commitments. ? “Cash is kind” was the CFO’s favorite go-to line when vetoing spending requests. The CEO always agreed. Legal lines were crossed.

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Commitment Cost-Benefit Analysis Ethics Compliance 253

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

By developing your ability to present ideas, and not blaming management for not buying your ideas, you accomplish much more. Present a realistic cost-benefit analysis of your ideas--don't just sell benefits. Be prepared to have a realistic discussion of the costs of your idea.

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Influence Ethics Cost-Benefit Analysis Guidelines 135

Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 5, 2011

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. Present a realistic “cost-benefit” analysis of your ideas – don’t just sell benefits. Every organization has limited resources, time and energy.

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Influence Drucker Guidelines Ethics 139

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles. Why would you be a follower?

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