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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

The employee was forbidden to work on the project. Managers are no exception, especially when incentives favor finding causal relationships between variables that are difficult to measure, such as changes in leadership style and team performance. They must embrace a new leadership model. It was immediately launched.

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Why Your Employees Count as Much as Your Clients

Strategy Driven

While management focuses on control, organization, and supervision, leadership is the ability to inspire, motivate, and influence to empower others to create organizational success. This begins with leadership, not management. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Managers and leaders are not made equal.

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The Best of September 2013

Harvard Business Review

Feature Triple-Strength Leadership Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Managing resource constraints, controlling health care costs, implementing smart-grid technologies — these are challenges that can’t be addressed unless government, business, and NGOs work together.

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Rehiring Retirees as Consultants Is Bad Business

Harvard Business Review

The retiree satisfied financial and personal goals while the organization reinserted someone with unrivaled knowledge and expertise into a project and took its time sourcing replacement talent. For one thing, at GEGRC, internal analysis predicted a potential tsunami of retirements hitting the two top technical levels between 2008 and 2013.

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Engaging Medical Specialists in Improving Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

Second, DPIs are encouraged to enroll in a leadership program offered jointly with Harvard Business School as well as a process improvement course focusing on lean techniques and the plan-do-study-act model. In addition to helping improve health care value, those projects reinforced lessons DPIs received in their training programs.

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Tinkering with Strategy Can Derail Midsize Companies

Harvard Business Review

During those nine months, Cellairis’ leadership had been distracted from their core business. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. By the end of 2010, they found that incentive bonuses did have a minor impact on growth but that as soon as they were discontinued, sales dropped again.

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Africa’s Companies Need to Become More Like Training Schools

Harvard Business Review

The World Bank puts the figure at 38% in Nigeria , while the Economist projects 55% for young black South Africans. In June 2013, some Harvard Business School classmates and I launched a social enterprise ( WAVE: West Africa Vocational Education ) targeted at the youth unemployment issue. Align Culture and Incentives.