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ASA Deming Lecture by Brent James: Long Term View of the Healthcare System

Deming Institute

2010 ASA Deming Lecture – “Dr. Next, Brent James looks at the long term history of health care in the USA and the great gains achieved during the 1900s. 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor? Guest post by John Hunter , who founded curiouscat.com in 1996. On this success Brent says.

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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# In fact, more likely is the case that the opportunity will completely evaporate if you wait too long to seize it.

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Communicating with customers

Lead on Purpose

You need to build those relationships to let clients know you’ll be there for them in the long term. Once you have a solid relationship with customers and you help them through a crisis, their memories can be pretty long. Instead, this is the time when you should spend more money with customers.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them. A lesson that I learned long ago is that you simply cannot experience sustainable improvement without transformation.

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The Wasting of Your Life

Chris Brady

" The term itself deserves the quotes thus employed in the previous sentence because it conjures in people's minds many different definitions. This results in the need to blame someone external to themselves, and from there, well, that would be an article long enough to give War and Peace a run for it's longevity record. 

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Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective

Deming Institute

Vincent includes valuable ideas from Russ Ackoff on an organizational decision making process (including the importance of learning from decisions over the long term ). 2010, Sir William Osler: Dr. Deming Consults on Quality. 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor? 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor?

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

Likewise, marketing wants to clearly quantify the impact of its long-term branding efforts while finance is more focused on macro-economic drivers of marketing performance, such as interest rates, employment levels, inflation and retail sales. Inside Intel. This has spurred re-thinks that include changes to key executive relationships.

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