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Leaders Weigh in on Achieving Breakthrough Results – A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Organizations have many walls that hamper culture, development, and operations. Paul LaRue of The Upwards Leader shares How Leadership Can Break Down Walls. Abby Perkins of Software Providers discusses how to create a culture that breeds employees who are motivated, driven and dedicated to your company’s goals. Follow Abby.

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Health Care Transparency Should Be About Strategy, Not Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Health care organizations need to re-think their concept of strategy to thrive in a marketplace driven by competition on value – how well they improve patient outcomes and reduce costs. For example, like their organizations, clinicians are most comfortable with transparency around measures that they can control (e.g.,

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Getting Real About Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

As Thomas Lee noted in the New England Journal of Medicine, “no one can oppose this goal and expect long-term success.”. In this regard, a closer examination of the value concept confirms its appeal but also exposes the daunting challenges facing health system reformers.

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Social Progress = Economic Success: Social Innovation at Work

Harvard Business Review

This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation. Today, Porter says, companies must reconnect company success with social progress, not as philanthropy, but as a way to achieve economic success.

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Strong Patient-Provider Relationships Drive Healthier Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. But, why do we only define patient value by outcomes and cost?

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What Capitalism Can't Fix

Harvard Business Review

In so doing, they run the risk of dismissing the impact of nonprofits — and diminishing the value of organizations that seek to make a difference without creating the potential conflicts that come with the profit motive. I'd suggest three practical questions to ask in sorting through how to achieve important social goals.

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Corporate Reporting Needs a Reboot

Harvard Business Review

There is a clamor of voices demanding the rebooting of capitalism, from academics (such as Michael Porter) and politicians (like Al Gore) to investors (such as CalPERS) and Occupy''s street activists. The system has lost sight of the point of reporting: to give companies access to financial capital by communicating their value to investors.

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