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The Lion on the Desk

Great Leadership By Dan

No confusion, no mixed messages, no need for consensus-building or alignment, no persuasion necessary – just a very, very smooth path from sensing to fleeing. No amount of reorg-ing, incentivizing, agiling, design thinking, change management, or outsourcing is going to undo this truth. Recognizing this, what’s a great leader to do?

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5 Ways U.S. Hospitals Can Respond to Medicare’s Mounting Costs

Harvard Business Review

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. This requires sorting out the appropriate level of the organization responsible for key functions and clarifying decision rights, or, indeed whether it is more efficient to outsource those functions than to provide them in-house. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Peak Globalization

Harvard Business Review

The international political consensus of the universal economic benefits of globalization that defined much of the 20th and early 21st centuries is breaking down. The positive consensus toward globalization that defined the U.S. This rising generation reflects and reinforces China's growing nationalism. The young in the U.S.,