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5 Tips to Increase Workplace Engagement

Great Leadership By Dan

When we feel connected, we operate with a sense of purpose and utilize our many talents and abilities to advance that purpose, consciously as well as subconsciously. Though he did not live to see it, the steps of Neil Armstrong made his dream a reality. The need for connection at work is perhaps stronger today than ever before.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

I have a history of going a little overboard with the “healthy physical habits” – for example, weekly fasting or excessive training for athletic competitions, etc. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! Steven Armstrong of StevenArmstrong.ca. What is that!?”

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Rascals

Chris Brady

  Thousands of pilots were shot down over northwestern Europe,and it wasn't long before clandestine operations sprang into place to smugglethem back to England to fight again.   Jongh had promised herself that if warever came to her country, she would follow the example of Cavell. Examples of true rascals then and now.

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Why Great Success Can Bring Out the Worst Parts of Our Personalities

Harvard Business Review

John Paul Getty installed a coin-operated pay phone in his villa to avoid subsidizing his guests’ phone calls; at the time, he was the richest man in the world. Tim Armstrong, during his tenure as the CEO of AOL, fired an executive on a live conference call after the exec snapped a photo of him for the internal website.

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0504 | William Cohen: Full Transcript

LDRLB

He thought that for example even basic hiring was done incorrectly, they were done based on maybe the school that the individual went to rather than the performance that the individual showed. I don’t mean by grade point average, for example if it was an undergraduate, did that individual work while he was going to school?

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The Next Wave of Hospital Innovation to Make Patients Safer

Harvard Business Review

Looking at surgery as an example, our research suggests that the road ahead for improving patient safety will look different from the road behind. Nearly 65 million surgical operations were performed last year in the U.S., resulting in an estimated 200,000 deaths from complications or other post-operative issues.

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When Health Care Providers Look at Problems from Multiple Perspectives, Patients Benefit

Harvard Business Review

Smith was ready to be discharged home after his laryngectomy, an extensive operation that removes a patient’s throat due to cancer. Female physicians, for example, are more likely than male physicians to follow evidence-based practice and to engage in more preventive services (e.g., cancer screening) and communication (e.g.,