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Possibility Maximizer: TED Talks

Sales Wolf Blog

  However, over the course of the past twenty-odd years, TED has evolved to include speeches from a vast and varied group of thought leaders on topics such as global business trends, emerging technologies, health care, natural science, personal development, and far too many others to list here.

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Great CEOs See the Importance of Being Understood

Harvard Business Review

We see — or, more accurately, hear — this in financial services where block chain and novel payment/settlement architectures profoundly alter business models and, of course, in health care, where words such as “hospitalist” scarcely existed twenty years ago.

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Who Killed the GE Model?

Harvard Business Review

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Even in health-care, where GE has a hardware position and was an early entry in electronic records software, it has been losing to more focused software companies, such as Epic.

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Britain’s Patient-Safety Crisis Holds Lessons for All

Harvard Business Review

But too often, I see leaders focusing on the monthly financials while losing connection to the work and care at the bedside. Earlier in my career, I had the chance to visit leaders such as Jack Welch (GE), Paul O’Neill (Alcoa), and Ralph Larsen (Johnson & Johnson). Leading Health Care Innovation. Ask four questions.

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What Capitalism Can't Fix

Harvard Business Review

Former GE CEO Jack Welch, writing in Business Week , characterized the nonprofit sector as a "foreign land" in which performance is not a priority and employees are guaranteed "lifetime employment." Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, wrote last year on the Wired web site, "Let's be real: The nonprofit model is broken.

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