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Favorites of 2011: Team Building, Leadership & Innovation Blog Articles

Mike Cardus

With the end of the year approaching, this week is a great to share some of my favorites of 2011. Favorite Team Building & Leadership Blog Articles 2011. My father James Cardus died May 27, 2006…he was an educational leader for over 30 years. 9 Indicators That a Manager is NOT Able to Handle the Complexity of the Work.

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Integrating Technical and Human Management Systems

Curious Cat

ASQ has asked the Influential Voices on quality management to look at the question of integrating technical quality and human management systems. My view is that the management system must integrate these facets together. Edwards Deming discussed frequently and emphasized in his management system ).

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

What about “ The Rise of the Supertemp ” that Jody Greenstone Miller and Matt Miller reported in HBR in 2012? It gets that from a 2006 Government Accountability Office report that said there were about 42.6 On Thursday, EMSI published a nice roundup of developments since 2006.

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Integrating Maintenance of Board Certification and Health Systems’ Quality-Improvement Programs

Harvard Business Review

With this in mind, the American Board of Medical Specialties and its 24 member boards in 2006 adopted new standards for physician certification and maintenance of certification (MOC). The Mayo Quality Academy offers 30 courses, ranging from Lean and Six-Sigma to Human Factors and Change Management. Meaningful participation standards.

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Apple’s Patently Absurd Smartphone Crusade

Harvard Business Review

Between 2006 and 2012, the company was involved, sometimes as plaintiff and sometimes as defendant, in nearly 150 patent lawsuits around the world over various features of its iPhone — including hardware, software, and product design. Motorola (owned by Google since 2011) is suing and being sued by everyone. And so Apple has.

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Diverse Teams Feel Less Comfortable — and That’s Why They Perform Better

Harvard Business Review

In a 2011 study management teams exhibiting a wider range of educational and work backgrounds produced more-innovative products. In a 2006 study of mock juries, for example, when black people were added to the jury, white jurors processed the case facts more carefully and deliberated more effectively.

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Scaling: The Problem of More

Harvard Business Review

million in capital in 2012, it grew from 6 to 20 employees. Back in 2011, in Citrus Lane’s first six months, its small founding team worked in a house and ate lunch together every day around a big table. Change management Entrepreneurship Execution' After raising $5.1 hospitals of the importance of some simple practices (e.g.,