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Mackert and Garfield Named to Board of Examiners for 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

Six Disciplines

—The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Casey Mackert, Director of Baldrige Services and Dr. Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. You have and regularly update-benchmark a strategy for the future, shared company Vision, ethics, Big Picture thinking and “walk the talk.” Philosophy.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., an RFID system) and a multidiscipline team of clinicians and people from other fields can play in improving the quality and cost of care delivery processes and the steps that can ease the way to applying such an approach.

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How Organizations Can Thrive in the Digital Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM KORN FERRY

Harvard Business Review

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). Open organizations thrive in this climate by being deliberately transparent about their ethics, responsibilities, decisions, and practices. November 2016).

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies

Harvard Business Review

Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. These qualities are increasingly important as social media feeds popular demand for transparency and authentic interaction. Technology.

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12 challenges leaders of today face

Mark Sanborn

This post on leadership challenges was originally published in 2016 and has been updated for 2019. One of the qualities of a good leader is that he or she doesn’t just copy and collect, but also thinks and creates. A false dichotomy of ethics. Trying to separate personal ethics from professional ethics is not a good idea.

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Finance Can Be a Noble Profession (Yes, Really)

Harvard Business Review

I seldom, if ever, hear that apologetic tone from students choosing technology companies or consulting. To give one example of this, in 2016 18% of Harvard undergraduates and 28% of Harvard MBAs went directly into finance, while 29% of the undergraduates of Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business did. Am I saving enough?