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Elon Musk’s Unusual Compensation Plan Isn’t Really About Compensation at All

Harvard Business Review

Elon Musk is already incredibly rich, and also doesn’t seem particularly motivated by further wealth. And yet this contradiction of motivations has mostly been absent from discussion of Musk’s pay. In fact, much of the discussion to date misses the point. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

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How to Get Health Care Employees Onboard with Change

Harvard Business Review

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team. Things were looking up on all fronts except one.

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How to Master a New Skill

Harvard Business Review

It's not enough to be smart — you need to always be getting smarter," says Heidi Grant Halvorson, a motivational psychologist and author of the HBR Single Nine Things Successful People Do Differently. Second, how much time and energy can you give to the project? There are certain limits to what you can learn," explains Weintraub.

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Transforming Health Care Takes Continuity and Consistency

Harvard Business Review

What stops skilled, motivated people from making health care better, more integrated, and ultimately more sustainable? A compelling vision of a better future needs to be communicated in a way that creates energy and motivation. Health care is not the only industry that is resistant to change. million people.