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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Caring for the health and well-being of our fellow humans has always been viewed as a combination of art and science. With all the recent advances in technology, there is no doubt the health care industry as a whole gets an “A” in science. Some dysfunction may always exist in our health care systems.

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To Better Train Workers, Figure Out Where They Struggle

Harvard Business Review

It has trained and placed 11,000 graduates into entry-level jobs in four sectors: health care, tech, retail/sales, and skilled trades. The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion. and sixfold in India.

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The Ways Big Cities Think About Large-Scale Change

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, achieving their goals required significant behavior change from multiple players who didn’t necessarily see themselves as part of the same systems even though they served largely the same families and neighborhoods. Standard performance metrics for these big audacious outcomes do not exist. Reimagine roles.

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A Fairer Way of Giving Credit Where It’s Due

Harvard Business Review

A similar approach is used in the National Hockey League, where a “plus-minus” system calculates how often a skater is on the ice when a goal happens, awards a point when the team scores and subtracts one when the opponent does. By contrast, we have seen many struggling teams that award recognition for activity metrics (e.g.,

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How to Make a Great First Impression

Harvard Business Review

Know who you’re meeting, what he cares about, and what he might need from you. Your goal, says Johnson, is to “show that you understand the problem the other person is trying to solve and how your skills put you in a position to help.” ” The goal is to create a connection on a human level.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

Many adult health care outcomes are shaped in childhood. Current models of pediatric primary care do little to address these “non-medical” causes and consequently have been largely ineffective in preventing adult disease. Reforming primary care pediatrics therefore has great potential for improving overall U.S.