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Life-Giving Cultures in Health Care Organizations

Michael Lee Stallard

That’s why cultures in health care organizations need to be life-giving in order to energize health care workers who give so much of themselves to their patients. In some health care-related fields, as many as one-third of employees leave their jobs each year. This is an important issue today.

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Use Experimentation to Design Better Health Care Benefits

Harvard Business Review

employers face enormous challenges in designing their employee health care benefits that effectively address the myriad problems confronting them, including rising health care costs, employee burnout and obesity. At the same time, health and wellness options abound.

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Tips for Physicians Transitioning to the Business Side of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Burned out or disenchanted, many physicians are moving from medicine into the business side of health care. This article offers four tips for navigating the new landscape. But the transition can be a tough one.

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What Space Exploration and Health Care Can Teach You About Navigating Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

Space exploration and health care have cornered the market in this level of preparation. In order to successfully navigate the uncertainty that characterizes today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, leaders need to proactively prepare their teams for unexpected and time-sensitive emergencies.

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Building a Labor-Employer Alliance to Reform U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

employers have struggled to curb soaring health care costs. But there is an approach that could help them: involve workers in the design and implementation of health care benefits.

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Why the Tech Industry Won’t Disrupt Health Care

Harvard Business Review

At first glance, it looks like health care in the United States is ripe for disruption.

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WHE21: Can Behavioral Economics Solve Your Company’s Health Care Problems? | with Derek Yach from Vitality Institute

Engaging Leader

In particular, the still-evolving field of behavioral economics provides opportunities for employers to use evidence-based strategies to improve the health of their workforce. As described by National Public Radio, the Vitality Institute “finds ways to pay people to do healthful things” like eating more vegetables or exercising.