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

Kevin Eikenberry

There is still time to vote for Steve or our other great nominees for the Best Leadership Blog of 2011. Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable! He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. Do it now !

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

Harvard Business Review

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Health Care for 1% of the Cost

Harvard Business Review

Can reverse innovationinnovations originating from poor countries — provide one important answer? the approach is to spend more money on major technological advances and come up with innovative products and solutions. How did he achieve such an impossible goal? Most definitely. In the U.S.,

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To Radically Redesign Health Care, Start with One Unit

Harvard Business Review

It is a widely held belief among health care leaders that comparing their hospitals and clinics to peers is very important. health care quality and safety is abysmal: The evidence suggests that between 240,000 to 400,000 deaths occur each year due to medical errors. Define the goal. Leading Change in Health Care.

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How to Get Health Care Employees Onboard with Change

Harvard Business Review

Innovating for Value in Health Care. In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. Insight Center.

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

Harvard Business Review

Low-risk expectant mothers pay a high price for unnecessary prenatal appointments in the form of time away from work and associated lost wages or personal days, child care costs, and so on. The Leading Edge of Health Care. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Getting Others to Embrace Risk

Harvard Business Review

Why is growth and innovation in some industries so sluggish? Our reluctance to stick our collective neck out has everything to do with the psychology of motivation — specifically, how we think about the goals we pursue. If, instead, we see our goals in terms of what we might gain, we have what's called a promotion focus.