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Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors

Harvard Business Review

Cosgrove suggests that physician-leaders are also more likely to “tolerate crazy ideas” (innovative ideas like the first coronary artery bypass, performed by René Favaloro at the Cleveland Clinic in the late ‘60s). The course culminates in a team-based innovation project presented to hospital leadership.

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Why Leaders Don’t Embrace the Skills They’ll Need for the Future

Harvard Business Review

Innovative. But if employees have long been valued and rewarded for behaviors such as practicality, consistency, self-reliance, and prudence, why wouldn’t they find it uncomfortable to suddenly embrace behaviors such as innovation, agility, collaboration, and boldness? amriphoto/Getty Images. Collaborative.

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Managing Effectively in a Matrix

Harvard Business Review

Determined to get closer to their customers and become more agile and innovative, global organizations like IBM and GE are embracing the matrix organizational model. Influence and conflict management capabilities help leaders to build consensus around a common purpose and deliver the collaborative solutions that the matrix requires.

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Kicking Leadership Clichés

Great Leadership By Dan

Great leaders will need to be great collaborators, guiding teams and companies forward by providing a long-term vision, creating group harmony, achieving consensus and generating new ideas. This “bounded autonomy” is both the greatest weapon in the war for talent and the greatest accelerant of strategy and innovation.