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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. Perhaps because they learned to? While ‘learning from doing’ is not easy to quantify and add into the equation, it needs to be.

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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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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. As a person that works with CEOs and entrepreneurs on a daily basis I can tell you with great certainty that all leaders are not created equal when it comes to the competency of their decisioning skills. What would your family think of your decision?

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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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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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A Better Metric for the Value of a Worker Training Program

Harvard Business Review

In a dynamic economy workers are expected to adapt, to change not just jobs but sometimes careers, to pick up new skills when necessary. If a program has a low cost per student but fails to actually help people forge a solid career, then the fact that the failure is cheap does not make it any less of a failure.

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