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084: Scaling Up Excellence: Getting To More Without Settling For Less | with Bob Sutton

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Black Professional Men Describe What It’s Like to Be in the Gender Majority but the Racial Minority

Harvard Business Review

Even when they have Harvard MBAs, black women are generally absent in leadership positions at most Fortune 500 companies, and black men are in high-ranking roles in only a handful. ” Yet with so few other black professional men being in these spaces, opportunities to bond and form allegiances are often infrequent.

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Understanding the Drivers of the Patient Experience

Harvard Business Review

Many hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic , are implementing a variety of strategies to improve the patient experience —an issue that’s rapidly becoming a top priority in health care. The Accountable Care Act now links performance related to patient-experience metrics to reimbursement.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

More recently, it has come in the form of the swarms of “apps” sold to individual departments to solve scheduling and care-coordination problems and to “bond” with “consumers.” To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department.

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The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, Procter & Gamble''s Pampers team in Nigeria find happiness facing the problem of infant mortality and devising solutions, such as mobile clinics that sent a physician and two nurses to areas lacking access to health care. Social bonds and a feeling of membership augment the meaning that comes from values-based work.

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What Happens After You’re Forced to Resign

Harvard Business Review

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

Those who are at work on Thanksgiving — even if it is virtual work online — can make special bonds with each other. Those who are at work on Thanksgiving — even if it is virtual work online — can make special bonds with each other. Second, reach out to the people youre with.