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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

They learned and practiced how to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts, build teams to succeed, lead meetings that didn’t waste time, lead change that would stick, walk the talk with our organizational values, and finally how to engage and manage our talent. Corporate Cultures – Culture’s Impact on How Work Gets Done.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Banks and lenders have predictive analytics engines that tell the lender the probability that a customer will pay them back. One area so far relatively untouched is change management. The combination of predictive analytics, large data sets, and the processing power of today’s computers is starting to transform change management.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. Lead by example.

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Stop Using the Excuse “Organizational Change Is Hard”

Harvard Business Review

Suddenly, employees disengage en masse and then the change engine begins to sputter in both perception and reality. A 1994 article in the peer-reviewed journal Information Systems Management presents Hammer and Champy’s estimate as a fact and changes “50 percent to 70 percent” to just “70 percent.”

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Overcoming Fragmentation in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

At the foundation of our approach is a knowledge-management system — an electronic archive of Mayo Clinic-vetted knowledge containing evidence-based protocols, order sets, alerts and care process models. This knowledge is updated in real time and made widely available.

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Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

And the risk can be managed through a new kind of tool called “feature gates.”. Here is a quick look at how Google and HubSpot have managed to achieve remarkable speed in product releases while simultaneously reducing risk. Google combines automated testing with a related process that requires a human peer to review code changes.

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If There’s Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There’s Statistically No Chance She’ll Be Hired

Harvard Business Review

We manipulated gender through the names of men and women, and we used the job of nurse manager. Managers need to know that working to get one woman or minority considered for a position might be futile, because the odds are likely slim if they are the lone woman or nonwhite candidate. 03; p < 05).