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

Mike Cardus

My father James Cardus died May 27, 2006…he was an educational leader for over 30 years. 5 Steps to Critical Thinking + Reflection in Team Development & Leadership. The workplace has the capacity to develop Attract or Repel Trust. What about 2011 inspired you to write and develop a stronger thought leadership in your work?

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4 Ways to Build an Innovative Team

Harvard Business Review

One of the most common questions I get asked by senior managers is “How can we find more innovative people?” Yet in researching my book, Mapping Innovation , I found that most great innovators were nothing like the mercurial stereotype. The biggest misconception about innovation is that it’s about ideas.

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What Innovative Companies Can Learn from Keurig’s Highs and Lows

Harvard Business Review

Continuously reinventing your organization doesn’t mean you have to start from scratch with each new innovation. ” Weak signals — specifically Americans’ desire for flavorful, convenient, fresh coffee — in the late 1980s, inspired the development of the Keurig coffee system. The innovation was a bold move.

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Apple’s Patently Absurd Smartphone Crusade

Harvard Business Review

And the havoc being wreaked — in higher prices, banned devices, and stifled innovation — is laying waste to the industry landscape. Last month, the court reversed an eminently sensible 2012 ruling by federal appeals judge Richard A. Innovation Tech industry Technology' I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business Review

While Medicare has led the development of bundles in the U.S., It is little surprise that direct employer-purchasing of bundled care is a burgeoning area of healthcare payment innovation. Geisinger Health System began partnering with Walmart around cardiac surgery in 2012, and joined ECEN for spinal surgery in 2015.

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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). Develop standards for QIPs. Develop standards for meaningful participation by individual physicians. Authority and Structure.

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How Labor Standards Can Be Good for Growth

Harvard Business Review

Nike is a leading example of how both anti-sweatshop campaigns and labor standards in trade agreements can be good for innovation and growth in developing countries. In May 2012, as part of our research , we gave out the new dies randomly to 35 of the 135 producers in Sialkot and sat back to watch. Not necessarily.