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Connectivity Can Be A Matter Of Life And Death At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Relationships matter In a bid to assess the impact of training relationships on patient outcomes, the researchers examined electronic records encompassing nearly 10,000 visits to 502 specialists within a large hospital system between 2016 and 2019. It may also require team training across different institutions and systems.

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Lead Change like a Slinky®

Lead Change Blog

This post is a part of our 2016 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Several years ago I led a professional development workshop for the alumni association of my alma mater. The workshop was a success. Align your team as you stay the course of change. Aim squarely at the future. Anticipate your adversaries and allies.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business Review

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

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Skills necessary to compete in rapidly evolving markets

Strategy Driven

Speed, agility, communication, delegation, innovation. Instead, what we see now is a demand for more speed, more agility, more innovation, because the competitive landscape is shifting. Consumers demand new products spawned from innovation. Maneuver requires people who can innovate new solutions for new and existing customers.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Don’t Give Up on Unconscious Bias Training — Make It Better

Harvard Business Review

When a global technology company engaged us to train its entire workforce over the course of 2016, we took the opportunity to more thoroughly evaluate the impact of our trainings by surveying employees about their actual behaviors before, immediately after, and as much as eight months following our training.

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Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases

Harvard Business Review

The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias. Is her personality a close match with that of the other employees on the team? Wouldn’t those people work best with the hiring manager and fit in with the rest of the team? And sameness blocks performance and innovation.

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