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Don’t Delegate More – Delegate More Effectively

Marshall Goldsmith

This helps direct reports understand the agendas of the peer team members and allows them to develop their skills in building collaboration and reaching consensus. The company was operating in a rapidly changing environment. This meeting management task can usually be delegated on a rotating basis to direct reports. 1-858-759-0950.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Handoffs for the Long Term

Harvard Business Review

Roughly 80% of serious medical errors (now the third leading cause of death in the United States behind heart disease and cancer) can be traced to poor communication between care providers during patient handoffs, according to a 2012 Joint Commission report. This makes patient handoffs the most frequent and riskiest procedure in the hospital.

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Here’s a Better Way for Companies to Tackle Big Social Problems

Harvard Business Review

There was a consensus that CSR focuses more on boosting employee morale than addressing the way a company engages with society’s concerns. Walmart is still evolving in this area, but by the end of 2012 it had reached its target of reducing its carbon emissions by 20%, one year ahead of schedule. Apply world-class management.

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Why Congress Needs to Pass the Innovation Act This Time

Harvard Business Review

If there’s consensus on anything in Washington these days, it’s on the need for some reform of the patent system. In an earlier 2012 trial, also on appeal, the same judge awarded Apple close to a billion dollars for infringement found in earlier Samsung devices). economy $1.5 billion a week. Yes, a week. In the last U.S.

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The Sad Truth Behind Growing Clashes at the WTO

Harvard Business Review

Before the financial crisis ushered in the current global economic downturn, there was a strong intellectual consensus among mainstream economists and policymakers about the merits of free trade. At the current rate, 2012 will easily see more disputes than in the two previous years combined.

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The Changing Role of Global Leaders

Harvard Business Review

It recognizes this new reality will spell decline for some commercial activities, but growth for others who find better ways of operating. In research led by Ashridge Business School and the International Business Leaders' Forum to be published later in 2012, we've been exploring this emerging new approach to leadership.

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).