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How to Solve Our Wild Problems

Leading Blog

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.”.

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How to Make the Business Case for Change

Lead Change Blog

If future cost savings will fund the initiative, show the payback calculation. Provide a cost-benefit analysis. Include non-financial costs and benefits along with the financial ones. Determine the budget lines that will pay for your proposal or describe the financing for it.

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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. Those in the heteronomy stage will absorb the values of the organization, particularly when it advances their careers.

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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.

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Don’t Talk Yourself Out of Trying a Second Career

Harvard Business Review

As our lives and marketplaces change all too rapidly, past career decisions can become obsolete or even dangerous to our wellbeing. With the experience of your first career to draw on, you should know what you enjoy and what you could learn to do. Career Transitions. Leaving a Stable Job to Create Your Dream Career.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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? What would your family think of your decision?

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The Skills Gap That's Slowing Down Your Career

Harvard Business Review

Career speed bumps (much like their counterparts in the road ) can take you by surprise. Take not having the right credentials, one common career speed bump. It's easy to ignore if you are speeding along in your career with the same employer, but suddenly losing your job can send you careening out of control.

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