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Competence, Commitment, and Character

Lead Change Blog

If the greater good couldn’t be quantified in a cost benefit analysis, it wasn’t important. Hang onto generosity, reciprocity, and ethical commitments. ? Display competence, commitment, and character, and hold others accountable for doing the same. ? They’re pretty soulless places. Don’t favor one over the other.

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Ethical Leaders And Workplace Culture: The Foundation Of Ethical Decision Making

Great Leadership By Dan

Turning virtue into ethical action requires a commitment to do the right thing regardless of the costs to oneself and the organization. The benefits are higher revenue, greater profits, and bonuses. The costs are largely unknown because it is unclear whether any defects exist and, if so, how they might affect the customer.

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Self-Confidence for Leaders

Marshall Goldsmith

The best that you can do as a leader is to gather all of the information that you can (in a timely manner), do a cost-benefit analysis of potential options, use your best judgment. There are never right or wrong answers to complex business decisions. and then go for it. Learn to live with failure. You are going to make mistakes.

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Influencing Up

Marshall Goldsmith

Present a realistic cost-benefit analysis of your ideas--don't just sell benefits. By revealing your lack of commitment to the final decision, you may sabotage the chances for effective exe cution. You are paid to do what makes a difference and to win on important issues.

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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

We try to help leaders make a very rational cost/benefit analysis about what clinging to the raft is costing them. Team members FEEL local leaders are genuinely committed to our agile transformation. Everyone is psychologically attached to their rafts. That often creates the motivation to change.

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

Marshall Goldsmith

Present a realistic “cost-benefitanalysis of your ideas – don’t just sell benefits. By demonstrated our lack of commitment to the final decision we may sabotage the chances for effective execution. You are paid to do what makes a difference and to win on important issues.

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Don't Let a Spreadsheet Decide Where You Locate Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Michael Porter's article in the March issue of HBR on choosing the United States makes the point that in choosing where to locate even high value-adding business activities, many companies don't do a very thorough costs/benefits analysis. The result is that divergent views and perceptions don't get an airing.