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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

These individuals probably have some history of working together but they also operate with the same obstructed viewpoint. Coming to a consensus around vision and direction can be time intensive simply because people who don’t interact are likely speaking to each other for the very first time, and frankly don’t trust each other.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Handoffs for the Long Term

Harvard Business Review

By the end of 2013, nurses reported over 20% of patient handoffs still had missing information. We started working with the management and staff of the perioperative unit in 2014 to develop a more systematic, long-term approach for improving patient handoffs from the operating room (OR) to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU).

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The Brief and Fascinating History of What You’re Wearing and Where It Gets Made

Harvard Business Review

Then came ill-advised decisions — like making a flip phone when market research showed that no one wanted flip phones — and an accretion of layers of management that operated by consensus. Hutton’s proposal attracted 40 fans on six continents and soon passed the $25,000 threshold at which the company funds a project.

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8 Tech Trends to Watch in 2016

Harvard Business Review

” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. The blockchain is a sort of distributed consensus system, where no one person controls all the data. Blockchain.

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We Took a Vote. You're Fired.

Harvard Business Review

Instead, the decision to fire (or hire or promote) someone is based on group consensus. burden of running their companies’ day-to-day operations. It''s an attractive value proposition: It''s projected to be a big part of the 13.4% growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014.