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When Scaling Your Leadership is a Matter of Life or Death

Next Level Blog

Historically, the Food Bank’s clientele was made up of the working poor – families whose providers work in low wage jobs that don’t pay enough to cover the cost of housing in LA along with other basic expenses like health care, utilities, clothing and food. So, how did they do it? Stay flexible – Don’t stand on historical roles.

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Authenticity at work boosts team performance

Chartered Management Institute

Renowned psychologists such as Maslow and Rogers even consider it a basic human need. Surveying over 300 staff within a large charity delivering mental health care, I found that authenticity is a crucial factor in improving perceptions of team performance and psychological wellbeing.

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2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl – Need Any Country be Poor?

Deming Institute

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve. Roger and Persia Neidermeyer wrote a book on the effort – Use What You Have: Resolving the HIV/AIDS Pandemic.

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ASA Deming Lecture by Brent James: Long Term View of the Healthcare System

Deming Institute

Deming Consults on Quality for Sir William Osler” by Brent James , Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. The beginning of the talk provides an overview of the huge macroeconomic risks of the health care system in the USA. Deming added excessive health care costs to his 7 deadly diseases of Western management.

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business Review

.” Yet others are succeeding by using a number of methods to drive demand, or “diffuse innovation,” as academic researcher Everett Rogers called it. He sought to explain how, why, and at what rate innovations spread, and a wide range of for-profit companies continue to draw on Rogers’s theories.

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The Traits of Advanced Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The difference is illustrated by a classic joke about old-time movie dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. He had a goal. He was clearly in charge.

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How Social Entrepreneurs Make Change Happen

Harvard Business Review

To succeed, Riders for Health needed to partner closely with community health workers. Photo courtesy of Riders for Health. For the Colemans and Riders for Health, winning means nothing less than a new health-care delivery equilibrium on a continent that desperately needs one.