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John Wooden: What the Obituaries Missed

Michael Lee Stallard

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the greatest basketball players in history who played his entire college career with Wooden, would later write, “Coach Wooden had a profound influence on me as an athlete, but even greater influence on me as a human being. Coach Wooden operated a meritocracy that treated every player fairly. I always sit.

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Marshall, Not McChrystal, Should Be Role Model for Military Leaders

Michael Lee Stallard

Born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1880 and trained at the Virginia Military Institute, Marshall was a career military man who will forever be remembered for his efforts to promote peace and bring about a strong connection between America and Western Europe. The officers present thought Marshall’s behavior would surely end his career.

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Design Your Own Profession

Harvard Business Review

Today the function of finding information can be performed by crowd-sourcers; mappers of local sources; filters and curators of tweets, posts, and liveblogs; algorithm designers, data scientists, and knowledge managers. Forget the titles on the org charts and the advertised positions.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole.

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Substitute Doctors Are Becoming More Common. What Do We Know About Their Quality of Care?

Harvard Business Review

Nine of ten physicians surveyed had worked in permanent practice at some point during their careers, while 8% indicated that they had only worked as locum tenens. What Our Data Says. However, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) defines locum tenens more narrowly.