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Exposure To Different Careers Can Help Overcome The Skills Gap

The Horizons Tracker

“When you look at rapidly growing employment sectors like manufacturing, computer technology, health care and construction, there is a pipeline concern, as we need more young people equipped with the skills to enter these fields,” they say.

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How Quick Wins Can Become Stretch Goals

Harvard Business Review

Recently my fellow HBR blogger Daniel Markovitz suggested that stretch goals can be demotivating, and should be replaced by confidence-building "quick wins." The key to integrating the two is to carve quick wins out of long-term goals — so that each small success is a building block towards achieving a broader challenge.

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You Innovate with Your Heart, Not Your Head

Harvard Business Review

The CEO knew I was a fan of passion-fueled innovation and thought he had a story I’d find inspiring, hence the call. So let’s set a goal of getting to the 90th percentile in 90 days. For a nurse or an x-ray tech with 10 or 20 years of experience, delivering health care is a routine. Let me be the patient.”

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How to Design a Bundled Payment Around Value

Harvard Business Review

The traditional fee-for-service reimbursement model is widely acknowledged to be a major driver of escalating health care costs. Harvard Pilgrim agreed to join the effort because it recognized that traditional payment models were unlikely to help control rising health care costs. The Motives of the Pilot’s Members.

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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Harvard Business Review

Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. No number of add-ons would be able to match the flexibility of need-based construction." Our goal is to increase demand for local trades, not drive them away.

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Japan, Libya, and Why Leaders Should be Paranoid

Harvard Business Review

Feeling vulnerable as a small city-state, Singapore's leaders set high standards, benchmark against the best in the world, seek innovation, and invest in ideas of the future. Komatsu, a globally prominent construction equipment manufacturer, drove excellence by fearing Caterpillar, the U.S. The opposite is also true.

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How a Public-Private Partnership Is Saving Lives

Harvard Business Review

Now in its second year , the initiative’s goal is to create a world where no woman dies from complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Pursue scientific innovation. Management expertise from the private sector has been crucial to that result, bringing about better health care delivery ? What has been achieved?