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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

How do you get a five-ton spacecraft safely to Saturn and land a probe on its largest moon when your project involves three space agencies, 17 countries, 18 separate scientific payloads, and 250 scientists working across 10 time zones? Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders.

Project 15
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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

How do you get a five-ton spacecraft safely to Saturn and land a probe on its largest moon when your project involves three space agencies, 17 countries, 18 separate scientific payloads, and 250 scientists working across 10 time zones? Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders.

Project 13
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Integrating Maintenance of Board Certification and Health Systems’ Quality-Improvement Programs

Harvard Business Review

Most physicians complete quality-improvement projects individually by completing modules provided by the specialty certification boards to collect, analyze, and improve quality on subsets of 25 to 50 patients. The ongoing program has allowed Mayo to do the following: Review and approve (or reject) quality-improvement projects (QIPs).

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – The Ugly Truth About Partisan Public Project Labor Agreements

Strategy Driven

Public project labor agreements (PLAs) provide another hurdle, unless their employees choose to pay union dues. Bush’s prohibition on the requirement for project labor agreements on federal projects. You just finished reading StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective - The Ugly Truth About Partisan Public Project Labor Agreements !

Project 50