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What Business Leaders Need to Know About the Paris Climate Conference

Harvard Business Review

The 195 member countries, or “parties,” hold a Conference of Parties (COP) annually, and this year is the 21st meeting. As a Citi report estimated recently, the cost to the global economy of doing nothing could hit $72 trillion between now and mid-century. For example, the U.S.

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What to think when things do not add up…

Deming Institute

In the summer of 2005, I attended a conference which featured Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, as the opening keynote speaker. By comparison, can you imagine a co-worker who received nothing (data, reports, parts, etc.) “The efforts of the various divisions in a company, each given a job, are not additive.

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Reflections on Dr. Deming’s Hospital Notes – What Has Changed Since 1990?

Deming Institute

It had been published in the journal of the Society for Health Systems (an organization I am active with today, including running the Red Bead Experiment at their 2016 conference). My doctor had reported zero post-surgical complications, a number I could only trust to be true and accurate. Why was the payment delayed?

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9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work

Harvard Business Review

By contrast, since 2005, the importance of meaningfulness in driving job selection has grown steadily. Our Meaning and Purpose at Work report , released today, surveyed the experience of workplace meaning among 2,285 American professionals, across 26 industries and a range of pay levels, company sizes, and demographics. Andy Molinsky.

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Transforming Today’s Bad Jobs into Tomorrow’s Good Jobs

Harvard Business Review

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. In 2005 alone, Home Depot spent $1 billion on automating merchandising and store processes. Sales per employee went from 179,142 euros in 2005 to 232,260 euros in 2008.

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How Could I Miss That? Jamie Dimon on the Hot Seat

Harvard Business Review

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. As the second week of May began, Dimon realized, "The last thing I told the market — that it was a tempest in a teapot — was dead wrong," the Journal reports.

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What Employers Can Do to Accelerate Health Care Reform

Harvard Business Review

I’ve had the opportunity to participate with many large, self-insured employers in three such marketplace collaboratives: one led by Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle in 2005, another led by Intel in Portland, Oregon, in 2009, and the Robert Bree Collaborative , created by the Washington State legislature in 2011. Insight Center.