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Behaviors of Collaborative Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

The promise of flexibility and agility as an organization, inspired by establishing shared goals across organizational boundaries, is only attainable if you back it up by sharing resources as well. Modeling the desired collaborative behaviors -- showing your employees that you walk the talk -- is the goal.

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Are Strategic Plans Worth it? (the debate continues)

LDRLB

The plan must be cascaded properly from top to bottom of the organization so that front line staff knows how their work impacts the organization’s goals. Assigning metrics and systematically measuring them fosters accountability. SP is necessary, but only successful when linking the long-term strategic priorities to today’s actions.

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Are Strategic Plans Worth it? (the debate continues)

LDRLB

The plan must be cascaded properly from top to bottom of the organization so that front line staff knows how their work impacts the organization’s goals. Assigning metrics and systematically measuring them fosters accountability. Others in our company would also say that it holds a team “able” instead of just accountable.

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Coaching for Behavioral Change

Marshall Goldsmith

Neither of these is a good metric for achieving a positive, long-term change in behavior. This type of follow-up will assure continued progress on initial goals and uncover additional areas for improvement. Our goal is not to create a dependency relationship between coach and client. and “How much time did I spend in coaching?”

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Why Do Corporations Need A Single Purpose?

Harvard Business Review

The idea that corporations need a single purpose is based not in law, but in economists' arguments that unless we have a single, objective, easily-observed metric to judge how well directors and executives are running firms, corporate "agents" will run amok. There are few human activities whose success is measured by a single metric.

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How's That Shareholdery-Valuey Stuff Working Out for Ya?

Harvard Business Review

They're a metric, not a goal. That's because there's little legal or historical justification for making shareholder wealth maximization the goal of the corporation (Stout's 2002 Southern California Law Review article, " Bad and Not-So-Bad Arguments for Shareholder Primacy ," is the best summary of the evidence on this).

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A Proven New Model for Reimbursing Physicians

Harvard Business Review

While our own physicians are still largely reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis from non-Geisinger insurance payers, since 2002, we’ve been using the following 80/20 compensation model: 80% of total cash compensation is based on the usual piecework metrics: panel size, number of patients seen, number of work units performed, and so on.