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The Skills Gap That's Slowing Down Your Career

Harvard Business Review

The same can be true if you are in an engineering job without the right credentials, or a senior finance job without an MBA or an advanced degree in finance. If your speed bump is a lack of the right skills, it helps to first do a quick cost/benefit analysis to see if investing in an upgrade will be worth it.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. Usability drives adoptability, and therefore it pays to keep things simple.

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