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Encourage Employees to Talk More

Tony Mayo

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

When redesigning the new and expanded emergency room at the Mayo Clinic’s Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, Mayo leaders didn’t just want to add more rooms and square feet. They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. This is the first time within the NHS that designers, engineers and clinicians have been brought together to co-create.

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Why Leadership Development Has to Happen on the Job

Harvard Business Review

As Tony Mayo, director of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School, has put it, “Success in the 21st century will require leaders to pay attention to the evolving context” a business is operating in. This means more of us are operating in more contexts, more of the time.

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How the Architecture of Hospitals Affects Health Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

The size and layout of a room, whether a bed sits in the middle or against a wall (even which wall), how much space is maintained for patients to walk versus how many beds or operating equipment can be accommodated, have not been considered predictors of health outcomes in the past. Previous studies looked only at room scale, not unit scale.)

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Getting Rid of “Never Events” in Hospitals

Harvard Business Review

A number of techniques and process-improvement tools from inside and outside the industry have been brought to bear: lean engineering to simplify and standardize care, Crew Resource Management to improve teamwork, checklists to help teams focus and improve reliability, and so on. Insight Center. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare.

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Is the Confidence Gap Between Men and Women a Myth?

Harvard Business Review

” Famously, in 2013, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and a billionaire, published a book in which her advice for working women was to tell them to “lean in.” Moreover, studies are finding no consistent gender differences in self-reported self-confidence. Highlight a wider array of role models.