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Proving It Through your Actions – a Guest Post from Steve Farber

Kevin Eikenberry

He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. You still have until midnight December 14th to vote. Prove to Others That You’re Proving It to Yourself by Steve Farber (posted 11/22/10) Extreme Leadership is not a solo act; it doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Harvard Business Review

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. health care keeps getting costlier.

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Breaking Up the Retail-Price Confusopoly

Harvard Business Review

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Breaking Up the Retail-Price Confusopoly 8:25 AM Tuesday November 30, 2010 by Joshua Gans | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print This years holiday shopping season improved somewhat over last year with sales likely to top $11 billion.

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Don't Underestimate China's Luxury Market

Harvard Business Review

China's luxury market — and the global phenomenon of " trading up " — are well known. Yet when China's consumer markets recently experienced short terms blips, several doubters promptly questioned the pace of their long term growth. By 2010, the number had risen to 221 million. But times are changing.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Hiring Uncertainties.

Strategy Driven

The increase in private sector jobs suggests that retail and factory jobs will continue to climb. Many of the provisions of the sweeping health-care bill passed by the House of Representatives in March won’t kick in until 2014, however these provisions spell big changes for small businesses. The results are mixed.

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These 6 Sectors of Africa’s Economy Are Poised for Growth

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010. from 2010 to 2015, compared with 4.1% between 2000 and 2010. trillion.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

In today’s health care landscape, consultants often advise independent hospitals to merge with a larger health system. Leading Change in Health Care. After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010. However, the evidence supporting mergers is uncertain at best.