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HR Cost Cutting Measures to Trim the Fluff

HR Digest

This will prove efficient and cost-effective, freeing the team to do more work. If the team is well handled and run, then any absences and lacunas can be handled by other members without any loss in productivity. Team outings can be combined with training and bonding sessions. Training and Mentoring Programs.

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Don’t Talk Yourself Out of Trying a Second Career

Harvard Business Review

You and Your Team Series. 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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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Disruptive innovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership. Thanks David.

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How to Avoid Collaboration Fatigue

Harvard Business Review

A diverse, cross-functional team is assembled to solve it. This is a recipe for collaboration fatigue, and if consumed in large doses for prolonged periods, this potent blend of abdication, confusion, and indecision will poison your team. It’s easy to assume that everyone on your team already knows the project’s purpose.