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How Leaders Can Build a Change-Friendly Culture

Great Leadership By Dan

The forces of internet transparency, rapid technology and young generations demanding empowerment are challenging organizations of all sizes across every industry to sail differently. People don’t resist change - they resist being changed. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. Charles Darwin.

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3 Health Care Trends That Don’t Hinge on the ACA

Harvard Business Review

Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications. In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

From 1970 to 2004, the percentage of CEOs hired from outside the firm increased from 12% to 39%. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology. Why do these shifts occur? Note the solution is not to avoid outside CEOs.

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What Board Directors Really Think of Gender Quotas

Harvard Business Review

Norway was the first to adopt a quota for female board members (40%) in 2004. Given the progress of other Nordic countries, it is particularly surprising that there continues to be strong resistance to gender diversity quotas in Denmark. There was also resistance to following the European example. In the U.S.,