N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another.

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Building Personal Strength

AUGUST 18, 2010

So when her manager left, Brenda was chosen to replace him. Like a lot of first-time managers, she didn’t know where to start. First, people in charge are typically called “managers,” but they are expected to both manage and lead. Managing and leading are two totally different activities. Develop their know-how.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

How they manage conflict. 10 Responses to Leaders and the Learning Organization Bret Simmons November 22, 2010 at 1:10 am I am a HUGE Senge fan. 10 Responses to Leaders and the Learning Organization Bret Simmons November 22, 2010 at 1:10 am I am a HUGE Senge fan. Here’s more about team learning in case you want it.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 29, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Asking for Help Taking Inventory & A Model For Making It Meaningful → August 30, 2010 · 12:00 am ↓ Jump to Comments Leadership ~ What’s Love Got To Do With It? It’s also the part that no big incentive program can hope to convey.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals. Their intent appears to be to create the financial incentive to get upstream of the major cost driver in health care: hospitalization. Many functions of hospitals may become totally obsolete.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Offering financial incentives has, for a long time, been one way to do this. In 2010, one large Asian information technology services company decided to run an experiment to see if rewards could actually improve and encourage employee ideas. Employees have proven to be a valuable source for innovative ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

We've eliminated the prizes and incentives most companies use to motivate sales teams. To make it clear to everyone that we value teamwork, we never manage one member in comparison to another, i.e. "Nathan is our best sales consultant, so can you model his behavior and 'fix' your approach?" Lose the incentives. Let them go.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

health care are Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) — networks of doctors, hospitals and usually payers banded together to rein in costs by providing higher quality, better coordinated care, with primary care doctors central to the process. Among the current remedies for U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Pay-for-performance programs have enabled payers to hold providers accountable for performance on quality measures. Public reporting has made quality and safety data more transparent. More and more providers are now being held accountable for the cost of care in addition to quality. Insight Center. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

20% of total cash compensation (an arbitrarily chosen threshold) is linked to how well physicians improved quality and reduced costs. A collaboration of the editors of Harvard Business Review and the New England Journal of Medicine , exploring cutting-edge ways to improve quality and reduce waste. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Another paper , from 2010, looked at the effects of labor laws in the U.S. A forthcoming paper in Management Science examined the impact of unionization on innovation. The researchers found that unionization caused a significant decline in innovation, measured by the number and quality of patents issued.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

Five innovative reforms have been found to help reduce costs without compromising on the quality of health care services: Decentralization of responsibilities : Most dialysis centers today are trying to provide drug management, laboratory services, and vascular surgery management in addition to dialysis service under one roof.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Though managers in France tend to consider the quality of labor relations in France quite low, in 2010 43% of French citizens declared trust in labor unions , as compared with 25% in the United States. The reform would give workers more incentives to join, rather than free ride on sector-level agreements.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

It's becoming ever clearer that entrepreneurship is the answer to the vexing economic questions facing Africa today: job creation, capital formation, skills acquisition, taxation-based self-sufficiency, quality of governance-demand, and of course social inclusion. But how has it actually evolved in Africa? These conclusions were hasty.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Bundled-payment efforts in both countries shift accountability to a single provider-led entity that must ensure quality, thereby emphasizing value over volume of care. In 2007, the Netherlands initiated a bundled-payment model for type 2 diabetes care and, subsequently, for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and vascular-risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

trillion spent on health care in the United States in 2010 was wages for health care workers, and labor productivity has historically worsened at a rate of 0.6% Surprisingly, 10 of the 16 non-doctor workers are purely administrative and management staff, receptionists and information clerks, and office clerks. Over half of the $2.6

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display. And these neighborhoods aren’t just dense; they are vibrant, high-quality places where post-grads and entrepreneurs actually want to live. No ideas are local, and increasingly few are secret.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

That also meant focusing on service quality. So we added more training and developed incentive programs. Now that's incentive! 2008 was tough, but we had a better year in 2009 and better still in 2010. We weren't happy with the results of our surveys, which indicated customer satisfaction was hovering at about 75 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

In recent years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has given hospitals, physicians, and other providers incentives to form accountable care organizations (ACOs), with responsibility for outcomes and costs held by a single entity rather than diffused across independent providers. We still operate that way today.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Some have pointed to savings and quality improvements in the first year as evidence that the program is off to a promising start to improving the value of care. Both programs reward ACOs for reporting and performance on quality measures. All ACOs were rewarded for reporting quality measures. The First Year’s Results.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97 billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43 It has resulted in positive cash flows, occupancy of over 90%, and higher levels of customer and employee satisfaction in 2010. billion were within the balance sheet, rising 7% versus the average of 0.5%

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. It is hell to manage.". Of course, no one likes to pay taxes, but the Danes don''t complain as much as you might expect in part because they receive a high quantity and quality of public services for their taxes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

In 2010, Chinese firm AVIC Automotive purchased Nexteer for $465 million. Under the new ownership, Remenar retained his entire management team and was allowed decision-making authority from the new owners to implement an effective strategy to get the firm back on track. Finally, a common misconception of Chinese investment in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of them want to share responsibility in how the hospital is managed. After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010. Nearly all of our physicians (99%) are in private practice and are fiercely determined to remain independent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

The media did exactly what it was designed to do, given the incentives that govern it. Success might have more to do with awareness than with quality. In 2009 Netflix needed high-quality content to grow its streaming business. And it won’t solve the media’s structural challenges or change its incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. Insight Center.

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