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The Flexible Method: How to Survive and Thrive Through the Next Crisis

Leading Blog

Take lessons from the past to constructively plan for the future. Care For Your Team’s Mental Health. Mind Your Own Health. Caring for yourself can boost your productivity, memory, focus, creativity, empathy, and decision-making—in other words, your overall effectiveness as a leader.” Negotiate flexible terms.

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The Building Inspectors, The Doctor, and Choosing Responsibility

Lead Change Blog

Who is going to take care of the very difficult job of marshaling enough respirators, masks, and personal protective equipment to keep health care providers safe and patients as medically secure as possible? Who is going to try to ensure there are enough testing kits available? Dozens of people were injured and three died.

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Parkinson's Law of Triviality

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was first published in SmartBlog on Leadership on 11/29/2012: Have you ever noticed that committees or management teams tend to spend way too much time in meetings endlessly debating the most unimportant or mundane topics, while at the same time, not enough time on the most important or strategic issues?

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Employee Turnover – The Hidden Cost

Chart Your Course

The highest turnover rates were in construction and hospitality. Additionally, companies with high turnover of skilled employees, such as health care workers and hi-tech positions, may have to wait some time to fill that vacant spot. The lowest turnover rates were in government, manufacturing and education.

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How to Matter: The 5 Key Ways Companies Win

Leading Blog

Large to small, in fields from construction to tech to health care, they win hearts, minds and wallets by innovating ways to stay the obvious choice in the market. Peter Sheahan , Founder and CEO of global consultancy Karrikins Group, is known internationally for innovative business thinking and thought leadership.

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Occupational Alcoholism Could Be Creeping Into Your Workplace Culture

HR Digest

Construction - 16.5 percent of construction workers drank heavily in the previous month. The HR Digest: Health care benefits are one of the largest ongoing expenses for employers, which are only rising with an aging workforce. Nurses/healthcare professionals - a 2014 study found that 15.3

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How a Soldier Takes on Community Health Care

Harvard Business Review

This post is part of an HBR Spotlight examining leadership lessons from the military. When I was interviewing to be the executive director of a healthcare non-profit, the People's Health Clinic (PHC), members of its board of directors questioned my experience. They wanted to know what someone coming from the U.S.