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Possibility Maximizer: TED Talks

Sales Wolf Blog

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A Global Online Network Lets Health Professionals Share Expertise

Harvard Business Review

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics. The Launch.

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Marshall, Not McChrystal, Should Be Role Model for Military Leaders

Michael Lee Stallard

When FDR put the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression under Marshall’s command, he developed an “absorbing interest” in helping the young men by educating them and taking care of their health-care needs. on July 5th, 2010 [.] According to Marshall’s biographer, he “kept his men intelligently occupied.

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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

For example, a few years ago we helped Medtronic formulate and deploy a business model to bring pacemakers to patients in India who historically either didn’t know they needed the device or couldn’t afford its $1,000 price tag (since most Indians pay for health care directly).

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Should Higher Education Be Free?

Harvard Business Review

Since 1980, we''ve seen a 400% increase in the cost of higher education, after adjustment for inflation — a higher cost escalation than any other industry, even health care. In the United States, our higher education system is broken. We have recently passed the trillion dollar mark in student loan debt in the United States.

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Women: The New Voices of Unions

Women on Business

Due to the worries over money, health care, benefits and decently paying jobs that don’t work you to pieces, organized labor unions are making a come back. Rose Ann also left college to join the workforce and organized cashiers in supermarkets as the first female for the Western Conference of Teamsters. Henry stepped forward.

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An Interview with Larry Spears, a Servant-Leadership Legend

Modern Servant Leader

Over the years, the energy around servant-leadership has sort of focused around businesses, health care, higher education, schools, and faith-based institutions. And in 2010, the servant-leadership scholar position was started. We had more people at our conferences for several years that followed that. Larry : Sure!

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