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Stop Distinguishing Between Execution and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Consider the recent article, “ Why Strategy Execution Unravels — and What to Do About It “ by Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sull, in the March 2015 issue of HBR. That’s because execution actually is strategy – trying to separate the two only leads to confusion. Emphasis added].

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments. That makes retaining them very different from retaining someone who wants to scale the corporate hierarchy by managing increasingly larger operations. So how do you keep them?

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Most Doctors Have Little or No Management Training, and That’s a Problem

Harvard Business Review

Some health care businesses use duplicate dyad management structures—one to oversee the clinical enterprise and another to oversee the business and operations that support the clinical enterprise. The dyad model can help break down silos, improve the way clinical and operations leaders work together, and coordinate care.