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Getting at the Heart of Leadership

You're Not the Boss of Me

They deal in only that which they can hold in their hand or see on the bottom line. So why bother to mess it up with emotion? Well, simply put, human beings are emotional creatures. Ms Ingraham worked as an Administrative Assistant for a pharmaceutical company in New Jersey. They have a strategy and goals.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

An investor-owned hospital executive whose company had acquired major nonprofit health care enterprises compared the proliferation of contracts to the growth of barnacles on the bottom of a freighter. To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department. cancel or rebid them).

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Why Your Brain Hates Performance Reviews

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few years, Soon-Shiong has been putting together a company that he hopes will be positioned to take us into health care’s tech-heavy future, with computers sequencing genomes, helping doctors monitor hundreds of patients at a time, and providing up-to-date information on which treatments are best.