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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Building a Culture of Transparency in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

In health care today, the conversation around transparency centers on the consumer. Health care providers must respond with as much information as possible to ensure appropriate care is delivered, quality and safety are top of mind, and patients and their care team can make thoughtful care decisions.

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052: How to Use Stories to Engage People | featuring Steve Kloyda from The Prospecting Expert

Engaging Leader

By 2004, the popularity of the CSI television shows had prompted a huge increase in applications to university forensic science programs. As a result of the 2007 movie Sicko, 43% of people were more likely to report that they think health-care reform is needed.

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

Here are four examples: The Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative , founded in 2004, unites local governments, community colleges, and businesses in the San Francisco area. It has trained more than 700 unskilled and displaced workers for well-paid jobs with defined career ladders in the biotech and health care sectors.

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Outsider CEOs Are on the Rise at the World’s Biggest Companies

Harvard Business Review

That’s nearly double the rate from 2004 to 2007. Outsiders, in effect, have become more of an intentional leadership choice than a stereotypical hire in a turnaround or crisis situation. Other industries with relatively high rates of outsider CEO hires include health care, utilities, and energy. ”).

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Getting Doctors to Make Better Decisions Will Take More than Money and Nudges

Harvard Business Review

Some have argued that most financial incentives are too small to make a difference, but even in the UK’s national health system, where up to 30% of clinicians’ income is paid through a P4P system, patients’ health have not markedly improved since 2004, when the system was introduced.

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Why Cleveland Clinic Shares Its Outcomes Data with the World

Harvard Business Review

In 2004, CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove extended the expectation of measuring and publicly reporting outcomes to other clinical areas. For health care institutions that want to emulate our outcomes reporting, here are some suggestions: Identify the target audience, because the audience shapes the reporting.