Lead Change Blog

JULY 19, 2017

asked manager Butch Clarke of a loyal customer one day as the customer was picking up a print job. If you did a cost-benefit analysis on some of the items on our shelves, you’d see the demand is way too low to make these items profitable,” says owner Gary Meschi. Butch is famous for his unique ways of querying customers.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Here are 10 things that you can do to convince upper management to convert your good ideas into meaningful action: 1) When presenting ideas, realize that it is your responsibility to sell – not their responsibility to buy. 4) Present a realistic cost-benefit analysis of your ideas–don’t just sell benefits.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge. Conduct a Cost/Benefit Analysis : Do the potential benefits derived from the decision justify the expected costs?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Although knowledge workers may know more about what they are doing than their managers do and have years of education and experience, they rarely know how to effectively influence up. To influence upper management and convert good ideas into meaningful action, follow these 10 guidelines: 1. Even the best of leaders are human.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

According to one former employee, “Management made it clear that no employee was allowed to complain about the unethical practices that were going on within the branch.”. We’re in the business of helping clients measure and manage culture. Mid-managers don’t root for each other’s success or play to win as a team. (DO).

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 5, 2011

Knowledge workers can be defined as people who know more about what they are doing than their managers do. In some cases, these decision makers may be immediate or upper managers – in other cases they may be peers or cross-organizational colleagues. Present a realistic “cost-benefit” analysis of your ideas – don’t just sell benefits.

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Influence Drucker Guidelines Ethics 139

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

Every networking event should be subjected to a cost-benefit analysis: if you weren’t here, what would you be doing, instead? Career planning Managing yourself Networking' I now stack the deck in my favor by refusing any meetings before 8 am or after 9 pm. Rate the likelihood of connecting.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

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. If you are in Human Resources, you can improve your technical skills with the PHR and SPHR certifications offered by the Society for Human Resource Management.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Conducting an accurate cost-benefit analysis requires a holistic approach, one that incorporates costs and job placement and also accounts for how participants are doing after they leave the program. We need to adopt something similar to a “total cost of ownership” (TCO) analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

But there are more subtle benefits: forests also clean our water and coastal wetlands and reefs provide natural defense from storms and floods. They can help us manage rainwater and wastewater. Is it cost competitive? Most obviously, we get all our food, minerals, and metals from the ground, and forests provide wood and oxygen.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Business leaders are beginning to recognize that how people manage their emotions matters to their society’s economy. Some business schools are working to train future leaders in the management of feelings. A meta-analysis of 213 studies on a wide range of social and emotional learning programs showed similar findings.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Employers can also provide their business travelers training in a variety of stress management approaches and sleep hygiene techniques. It will continue to be an avenue of professional advancement, and the opportunity to travel is often touted by companies as a benefit in their recruitment of talent.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Technical support can become marketing; marketing can turn into human resources; back office managers move to the front office and the other way around. Since they are starting “late,” they believe they should do a cost benefit analysis to see if their reorientation is “worth it.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

Could he do a “cost-benefit analysis” of what it meant to be successful? Coaching Managing yourself' What he found particularly helpful was being asked questions that challenged his internal narrative of success. For example, how did he envision success? Tim was lucky; he got a second chance at another company.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

If businesses are to continue using personal data to create value for themselves and for their customers, they will need to manage it as carefully as they would money, in four key ways. Understand how regulation alters the data cost-benefit analysis. Manage brand reputation by engaging with data rating agencies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Fran Melmed is the founder of context , a communication and change management consulting firm. 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. Sounds like a recipe for a sedentary workday, right?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Do a cost/benefit analysis. Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don’t entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears. Reactive Actions. Once you spot deceit, you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Robin Hood, on the other hand, is a grant-making foundation created by hedge fund managers with a penchant for hard numbers. With a mission to fight poverty in New York City, the foundation puts each of its 200-plus grants through a cost-benefit analysis every year.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2016

It’s all about rebalancing the cost-benefit analysis: make the benefits of action feel bigger, and the costs of action feel smaller. So the short-term effort easily dominates the long-term upside in our minds—an example of something that behavioral scientists call present bias.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

Such non-interventionism does not demonstrate a lack of courage, as some (mostly non-executives) would claim, but rather results from a rational cost-benefit analysis. But a discussion that wanders off track doesn’t qualify. Reason #3: The CEO doesn’t really want a structured agenda.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

One of the most stressful things about being self-employed is managing your cash flow. This information helps you better manage your monthly cash flow. ” Milestone payments not only help you manage your cash flow, they are “also a tool for communication,” she says. Don’t: Work informally.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

And yet, before working on Jim's piece, the cost-benefit analysis I'd done in my head (unscientific, not math-based, of course) suggested that whatever effort it took to gather and analyze the data probably wouldn't reveal anything new.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

For instance, a bisexual woman may come out to her immediate manager when she is first starting a job, but also later, when she meets new co-workers, other managers, or clients. Coming out is a constant cost-benefit analysis and requires weighing different risks. Coming out is actually a repetitive process.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Behavioral issues become so important in upper management. A moderately good accountant who is great with people outside the firm and skilled at managing smart people? You don’t get to be the CFO without knowing how to count, how to read a balance sheet, and how to handle money prudently. Who would you rather have as a CFO?

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 1, 2011

Behavioral issues become so important in upper management. A moderately good accountant who is great with people outside the firm and skilled at managing smart people? If we do a 'cost benefit analysis,' we conclude that our relationship with our partner or friend is far more important than winning an argument about where to eat.

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Skills CFO Cost-Benefit Analysis Welch 123

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

As humans, we often make a decision a second but re quire weeks, months, and maybe even years for management approval. This enables competition and removes barriers to entry by lower switching costs. Apply a cost benefit analysis. This enables organizations to develop a competitive advantage.

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Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 131

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Hence, it is hard to see justification for an additional penalty beyond the cost of foreclosing twice, which banks are paying according to state laws. As with any proposed regulation, the settlement should be subjected to a rigorous cost-benefit analysis. Singer is a Managing Director at Navigant Economics.

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