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Healthcare Mergers: An Emerging Crisis | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

It’s easy to see why competition drives down costs. The favored insurer passes along artificial cost increases directly to their customers, while disadvantaged competitors have to charge even higher premiums to continue offering access to offending providers. In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co.

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My 10 Favorite (and Most Effective) Leadership Quotes

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full My 10 Favorite (and Most Effective) Leadership Quotes by Starbucker on December 5, 2010 One of my favorite things to do as a leader is make a big speech or presentation. – John F.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

The cost of solar and wind are falling rapidly ; in fact, a few days before the new EPA announcement, Xcel Energy, which provides power to the American heartland, revealed that it was acquiring extensive wind and solar assets, “all at prices below fossil fuel alternatives.” California is also delivering some big results.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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How Passion Can Revolutionize Digital Technology, AND Change The.

Terry Starbucker

Its CEO at the time was great at cutting costs and preserving capital, but investors weren’t buying it. And change it did, because the new CEO had a vision that went beyond product, and costs, and overhead, and costs of capital. This once proud company had taken a bunch of body blows, and was staggering – badly.

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The 3 Elements of Solid Decision Making That Cannot Be Ignored

Terry Starbucker

But what I’ve observed and learned is that great leaders realize there is much more to decision making than doing a bunch of calculations – there are three other elements that are arguably just as important: Timing The Opportunity Cost The “Isaac Newton Effect&# The best way to illustrate these elements is to use an example.

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What Employers Can Do to Accelerate Health Care Reform

Harvard Business Review

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.