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Connecting with Abrasive Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Bond, Ed.D., More than a decade ago, I learned a set of simple principles that describe how the human operating system works, what’s behind our experience of life in the moment. Guest post from Cheryl A. SPHR: Every organization has its share of leaders, technical geniuses or future leaders who lack social skills and self-awareness.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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Morning Advantage: Leading the Post-Petraeus CIA

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, "many directors have seemed to regard their job as a kind of high-stress operational joy ride," involving unmarked planes, cigars, and exotic locales — sort of like a real-life Bond movie with worse suits and lamer cars.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years.