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It's Your Country.Lead It!

Coaching Tip

For our children's future, America needs to get better by reengineering our shared values and implementing a united ethical purpose. These coaching conversations help us to develop workable plans and the leadership skills required to clarify our agreed-to values and begin to build our joint reputation.

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Teamwork: Sharing the Blame! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

That programming for survival tells us to be wary and make sure there is a backup plan for safety. The historic health care bill that is now on its. Stress will make us be less accountable, less willing to risk telling the whole truth. I love to teach teams to “ practice safe stress ”. Do you know Agent Stan Conch?

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies. Experimentation is vital.

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Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs

Harvard Business Review

The Leading Edge of Health Care. National Institutes of Health, but the reverse is less clear; biopharmaceutical companies, too, participate in basic research that advances our understanding of mechanisms of disease and treatment. Suppose that physician plans research to compare the unit’s procedure to others.

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

12:53 PM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Edward Hallowell | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print If youre working — either from home or the office — over Thanksgiving, Im not sure whether to say, "Congratulations on your work ethic!" or "My condolences on your plight."

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Corporations Need a Better Approach to Public Policy

Harvard Business Review

Issues bearing significantly on the business emerge not just in legislative, executive, or regulatory settings; they can also arise in litigation or transactions or adoption of ethical standards necessary to pre-empt policy proposals. They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g., A needed a pproach.

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

Everyone knows that dentists, nurses, social workers and respiratory therapists are all health care professionals. An accounting firm may suggest that an economic forecast is a full-scope business plan (which it is not). Pro-bono community involvement is a factor because it indicates character, ethics and integrity.