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A Culture of Quality: An Interview with Laurie Havanec

HR Digest

At the same time, the power of personal connections in a shared space can’t be underestimated when it comes to building and maintaining a strong and inclusive company identity and culture and allowing colleagues to take advantage of development and relationships that will help them grow their careers.

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Managing Change in Health Care

Coaching Tip

For example, many hospitals are now engaged in making changes to improve their performance and the quality of care they provide. Unfortunately, there are too many healthcare organizations where both the board and key leadership are risk averse. If you can't motivate people to change, you can't change the organization.

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Featured Instigator: Eileen McDargh

Lead Change Blog

Focusing on resiliency, Eileen has found great synergy with health care audiences and long term care, educators (as an award-winning educator, she went from teaching kids to grown-ups—who are still like kids), and women’s leadership groups. I quit and never looked back. That was 36 years ago! Micromanage. Don’t miss it.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Why the World Needs Doctors with These 3 Qualities

Harvard Business Review

health care system, but our five-year research project in India and the U.S. Almost every high-performing health care organization we studied was led by a medical professional (something that academic research has also found ). And because they are first-rate doctors, they never lose sight of quality.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. We know this because in India innovators have found ways to deliver high-quality care to everyone — rich, poor, and virtually penniless — and make money doing it.

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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.