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Take It, Leave It, or Change It

The Recovering Engineer

The decision was to do a “cost-benefit analysis&# of our new situation. do your “cost-benefit analysis&# and choose one of these options: Take It Accept the change with all of its good and bad components, and realize that it is your choice to stay. Did it offer us more positive or more negative?

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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. First, from a neurochemical perspective, Dr. Eytan emphasizes that our brains are more relaxed during walks due to the release of certain chemicals.

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The Triumph (and Challenge) of Climate Math

Harvard Business Review

Dow Chemical has reduced energy costs $9 billion since 1994. According to Sunday's op-ed by Cass Sunstein , the Harvard professor and co-author of the great book Nudge , Ronald Reagan embraced aggressive action to solve the problem of ozone depletion because he believed the cost-benefit analysis. It's not so crazy.