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Why We Work Hard and Persevere

Michael Lee Stallard

Decision-making I will not establish a lot of detailed policies to spell out and legislate decisions on board. While there we recorded a podcast interview with Janis Apted, Associate Vice President for Faculty Development. Take care of your body and your mind. Our actions together make them a reality and the key to our success.

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How to Avoid Groupthink and Let Your Employees Truly Shine

HR Digest

Psychology Today suggests that the term was first defined by Yale psychologist Irving Janis in a 1971 issue of the magazine. Delving into matters of decision-making under stress, Janis strived to understand whether people were truly capable of ignoring their internal concerns in order to be one with the group.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Handoffs for the Long Term

Harvard Business Review

Janis Christie/Getty Images. The next stage involved formalizing the protocol into hospital policy – making it formally required as opposed to recommended – a process which took about one month. This makes patient handoffs the most frequent and riskiest procedure in the hospital.

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Three Tips For Overcoming Your Blind Spots

Harvard Business Review

But confirmation bias can cause disaster in business and policy when it leads a decision-maker to jump to conclusions, fall prey to misguided analogies, or simply exclude information that inconveniently disturbs a desired plan of action. It may well be that people are self-censoring for fear of exclusion or retribution.

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