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Leadership and Work Teams

Great Leadership By Dan

For two years (2016 and 2017) Deloitte’s Global Human Capital trends survey has positioned organizational redesign as the number one concern for businesses. In 2016 they termed this the ‘Rise of Teams’ and 2017 ‘The Organization of the Future – Arriving Now’. Simon operates from London with a Dublin-based support office.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

“We had to train harder, measure our goals better, and become a better team,” Bunge said. It is also a matter of having fun and fostering strong bonds between team members to help them reach their goals. During 2016, employee engagement increased by 3%, to 75%. Everybody had to do the sports hour.

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How Mayo Clinic Is Simplifying Prenatal Care for Low-Risk Patients

Harvard Business Review

To address this problem, in 2011 a group at Mayo Clinic led by the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology launched an initiative to transform prenatal care from this medicalized model to an innovative wellness model. In 2016 it was added as a standard care option at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

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Don’t Acquire a Company Before You’ve Asked These Questions

Harvard Business Review

Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Second, companies are attempting to pick up talent they suspect they cannot recruit directly – often as a catalyst to a broader digital transformation, or as a challenge to their existing IT operations.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Those sessions produced a highly sophisticated system that achieved the end goal: a wonderful end-to-end experience for consumers. Make the tough calls on people.

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What I Learned from Leading a Tunisian Ministry During the Arab Spring

Harvard Business Review

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. A sense of urgency can help leaders reach goals. The situation was dire. So did we succeed?

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The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery

Harvard Business Review

The goal of the Health Acceleration Challenge is similar to that of this HBR-NEJM Insight Center : to serve as a platform to share proven innovations in health care in order to help encourage adoption across geographies, systems, and care-delivery settings. A winner will be selected in April 2016.