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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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Influencing Up

Marshall Goldsmith

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. The knowledge worker is expected to take responsibility for being understood.

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

Marshall Goldsmith

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-benefitanalysis of your ideas – don’t just sell benefits. Every organization has limited resources, time and energy.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

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.

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Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data.

Harvard Business Review

And an analyses of health risk appraisal surveys conducted at a large multinational corporation found that international business travel was associated with higher alcohol consumption, lower confidence in keeping up with the pace of work, and lower perceived flexibility in fulfilling commitments.

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If Data Is Money, Why Don’t Businesses Keep It Secure?

Harvard Business Review

Telecommunications company Telefonica is currently developing a “ Data Locker ” scheme that allows users to see their own data, including the social networks of those they talk to and text with. Understand how regulation alters the data cost-benefit analysis. Data Security & privacy Risk management'