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Leading a Multicultural Team

Center for Creative Leadership

Managing a multicultural team can be a rewarding experience, giving leaders the opportunity to work closely with employees from diverse backgrounds and offering the chance for personal and professional growth. It’s easy for misunderstandings to occur on a diverse team, simply due to cultural differences. Applied Research Award.

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Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 33 – Predictive Performance Indicators

Strategy Driven

While organizational cultures, operating philosophies, and marketplace circumstances vary greatly, the people who comprise these organizations respond very similarly to these stimulators. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 24 – Diverse Metric Groupings.

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How Women Drive Innovation and Growth

Harvard Business Review

They control $20 trillion in global consumer spending, own or operate between 25-33% of all private businesses, and earn an estimated $13 trillion. This "power of the purse" is growing rapidly; expectations are that it will swell to $18 trillion by 2014. For companies that figure out what women want, the future looks rosy indeed.

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How the Architecture of Hospitals Affects Health Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

The size and layout of a room, whether a bed sits in the middle or against a wall (even which wall), how much space is maintained for patients to walk versus how many beds or operating equipment can be accommodated, have not been considered predictors of health outcomes in the past. Previous studies looked only at room scale, not unit scale.)

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while The soaring U.S.

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Smart Benchmarking Starts with Knowing Whom to Compare Yourself To

Harvard Business Review

The biomedical search engine at PubMed.gov reports only 3 records from 1992 on hospitals and benchmarking , but reports 1,412 from the decade 2005-2014. There’s been night-time construction next door for the last year, and it’s almost done, so the problem will solve itself. Further Reading. Keeping Up with the Quants.

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Navigating the Dozens of Different Strategy Options

Harvard Business Review

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?