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Q&A With Millennial CEO And Book Author Rick Lindquist

Eric Jacobson

Rick Lindquist Millennial Rick Lindquist is making his mark in the business world and enjoying the success of his co-authored 2014 bestseller book, The End of Employer-Provided Health Insurance. Lindquist : Professional will, which is defined in Jim Collins’ famous book, Good to Great. It’s a simple concept.

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Good to Great. Are you ‘good’ or maybe slightly below?

Strategy Driven

Jim Collins immortal business bestseller, Good to Great , created a revolution in many businesses and an explosion in book sales. Collins knew it. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The book was adopted, adapted, taught, and implemented. The key is these companies sought improvement. Self-improvement.

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Re-Imagining New Leadership Possibilities in 2014:

The Empowered Buisness

As best selling author, Jim Collins, notes: There is a big difference between being an organization with a vision statement and being a truly visionary company. As your leadership team gets ready for 2014, may you get started writing your magnum opus company’s future story. Happy 2014! __. The difference lies in alignment.

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Restaurant Week (An elementary look at quality culture fundamentals)

Deming Institute

Guest post by David Kachoui (previously published in Quality Progress, August 2014): Director of Business Development at Natech Plastics. Clore and Allan Collins, The Cognitive Structure of Emotions, Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. Parents were patrons. Students ran operations. Deming, The New Economics, see reference 2, p.

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Health Care Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Driven by Profit

Harvard Business Review

By 2014, more than 1,100 Parkland patients had been safely treated this way. As David Blumenthal and Sara Collins wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2014, “Developing and spreading innovative approaches to health care delivery that provide greater quality at lower cost is the next great challenge facing the nation.”

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Staying Motivated After a Major Achievement

Harvard Business Review

A 2014 Journal of Occupation Health Psychology article offers clues. Leadership consultant Jim Collins argues that organizations need a “big hairy audacious goal” to achieve great things. For a few days, turn off your work email after hours, or better yet, when you arrive home, leave your phone in a different room.

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The Growing Conflict-of-Interest Problem in the U.S. Congress

Harvard Business Review

As of the most recent data (2014 from the Senate and 2016 from the House), over half of Congress owns stock , many with holdings in excess of $100,000 in stocks alone, not to mention mutual funds and other forms of investments. In addition, as of 2014 over half of lawmakers were millionaires. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.)