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Four Industries That Use the Situational Leadership® Methodology

The Center For Leadership Studies

They not only empower their teams to think creatively and be innovative, but they also actively encourage and support it. One of the best descriptions of that reality in professional sports was provided years ago by Bum Phillips. At the time, Coach Phillips was the head football coach for the Houston Oilers.

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The Power of Asking

Mills Scofield

To date, CCChampions is working with over 6,000 professional athletes plus health care professionals, child psychologists, local students and community partners. But let’s face it — Providence, RI, where Sidney lives, is not exactly a professional sports powerhouse. Yet Boston is nearby!

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The Power of Your Network is the "Ask"

Mills Scofield

To date, CCChampions is working with over 6,000 professional athletes plus health care professionals, child psychologists, local students and community partners. But let’s face it — Providence, RI, where Sidney lives, is not exactly a professional sports powerhouse. Yet Boston is nearby!

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Doubts About Pay-for-Performance in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

What do we really know about the effectiveness of using financial incentives to improve quality and reduce costs in health care? It would seem that increasing payment for high-quality care (and, conversely, lowering payment for low-quality care) is an obvious way to improve value in health care.

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What Should an Apple Car Be?

Harvard Business Review

The third playbook for an Apple vehicle is to create new categories , via breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation. I doubt Apple designers will see the market in traditional segments, such as small cars, luxury/sports cars, SUVs, trucks and minivans/vans. How about a man cave on wheels?

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Reinvent Your Company by Reassessing Its Strengths

Harvard Business Review

health care providers: the push for more accountable care will require new business models where risk sharing with private and government insurers becomes more the norm. And, yes indeed, such models will demand a set of capabilities now alien to most care providers. When Innovation Is Strategy. Or consider U.S.

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Entrepreneurs Get Better with Age

Harvard Business Review

Kellond, 43, founded Bia Sport, a GPS sports watch that records time, current heart rate, sending the data straight to an online profile. At age 53, Avey is on her second start-up, Curious, a tool that gives people tools to ask questions about their health through data aggregation and sharing.