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Why You Need Spring Break (and Other Breaks) Now More Than Ever

Next Level Blog

As I write this, most of us in the United States are marking one month of stay at home and work from home orders to mitigate the public health impacts of the coronavirus. That said, staying home and working from home can present some unexpected challenges.

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Mining Diamonds by Purposeful Walk-arounds

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by regular Great Leadership contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: One of my clients recently returned from the Baptist Leadership Conference and during his management meeting he was reporting back on his learnings from the conference and what he intended on implementing.

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Fractured Workplaces - The Keystone?

Management Craft

I am doing a presentation at a health care conference next month on the topic of talent management trends and strategies. I see fractured workplaces in all types of organizations, not just health care (but the problem does seem to be greater in many hospitals). What's a fractured workplace? The keystone?

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Why Best Practices Haven't Fixed Health Care

Harvard Business Review

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine reported that American health care was decidedly dangerous for patients. The cause was not malfeasant individuals; it was inadequately designed and operated systems of care delivery. One in every few hundred was hurt, and one in every few thousand was killed by medical misadventures.

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What Employers Can Do to Accelerate Health Care Reform

Harvard Business Review

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers.

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Tele-Mentoring Is Creating Global Communities of Practice in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

At the time, he was one of the few liver disease specialists in the entire state of New Mexico, and arithmetically, he would never be able to care for those patients in time to have a difference in their health. Innovating for Value in Health Care. So he conceived of and launched Project ECHO. Insight Center.

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What Does It Really Mean to Be Change-Ready?

Change Starts Here

A fellow change practitioner recently shared the story of a friend who is a health care consultant. Typically, when this happens, the assumption is that you’ll putter around for a few weeks, finding your new path to the conference rooms and the printer, turning the wrong way at first, but fixing it once you realize it.