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August Jobs Report 2023

HR Digest

While this growth is slightly below expectations, it aligns with the Federal Reserve’s goal of managing inflation. Wage Growth and Inflation Average hourly earnings, a crucial measure of inflation, increased by 0.2% Year over year, wages have risen by 4.3%, maintaining a steady pace of wage growth since the spring.

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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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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

Teams of health care professionals, as found in clinics and hospitals. Widget manufacturing companies team with retail management experts to open a string of widget stores. Managing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Managing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Professional societies and associations.

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How the U.S. Army Redesigned Its Mental Health System

Harvard Business Review

Leaders in today’s complex health care systems need better processes and systems for aligning day-to-day, clinical-care activities with the strategic goals of their organizations. Transforming Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. How leading providers are delivering value for patients.

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A Guide to Finding and Hiring the Best Contractors

Harvard Business Review

As a result, hiring managers are now tasked with finding, hiring, and managing employees who run the gamut from full-time workers to those in remote, flex, or contract roles. For example, the health care, real estate, and construction industries gained contractors in the past year, while public safety, retail, and the arts lost them.

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How a Public-Private Partnership Is Saving Lives

Harvard Business Review

But if corporations join the public sector in recognizing that this problem is a convergence of societal, economic, and cultural factors and apply good management practices to address it, we can bend the curve. On one level, they need to learn and implement basic business essentials such as financial management and human resource development.

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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. People are also being asked by their bosses or HR to attend conferences, read case studies, watch videos, and try their hand at simulations, all with the goal of picking up new ideas and techniques. Tie goals to concrete results. Do it fast.