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HR Cost Cutting Measures to Trim the Fluff

HR Digest

Cutting costs is the oft-repeated phrase that companies are using to meet the downturn in the economy and the declining revenues and sales. For most, cost-cutting translates to job cuts in the organization. But there are other ways to tighten the belt and do operational budgeting. Do away with unnecessary costs.

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Intangible Loss of Outsourced Innovation

Mills Scofield

I’ve been thinking about the 2 nd , 3 rd order effects of outsourcing, especially now that some companies are either doing or seriously considering insourcing. I’ve wondered about the cost-benefit equation of in vs. outsourcing for a while. I agree with many who believe we learn by doing.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. The Changing Expectations for Followers There was a time in the not too distant past when followership essentially meant, “be quiet and do whatever I tell you to do.”

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The fact of the matter is that senior executives who rise to the C-suite do so largely based upon their ability to consistently make sound decisions. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision. The truth is that even leaders who don’t fail make bad decisions from time-to-time.

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Influencing Up

Marshall Goldsmith

They worry over what the organization or their boss owes them and should do for them and obsess over the authority they 'should have,' thus rendering themselves ineffectual. You become disempowered when you focus on what others have done to make things wrong--not what you can do to make things right. In some cases they are not.

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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

How do you ensure it’s the former, not the latter?” I followed up with the authors to learn more about their leadership philosophy. Learn from the Mistakes of A Rotten Culture. So many of the things leaders do that create lousy cultures are decisions that produce quick payoffs. That’s what Wells Fargo did.

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

Marshall Goldsmith

They worry over what the organization and their superiors ‘owe’ them and should do for them. Knowledge workers can be defined as people who know more about what they are doing than their managers do. Knowledge workers can be defined as people who know more about what they are doing than their managers do.

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