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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 6/24/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bob''s blog entries "4 signs you’re a slacker" "9 Qualities of Truly Confident People" "How and Why to Use Personal Stories in Your Next Presentation" "How to Make Your Organization Anti-Fragile" "The Most Overlooked Leadership Skill" "The neuroscience of sleep" Adam Bryant Adam Pash and Gina Trapani Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure Tim (..)

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. The Three-Box Solution : A Strategy for Leading Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan Ultimately our future is not in linear—incremental—improvements.

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New Books from the Press for April

Harvard Business Review

by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble. Authors Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth explain where, when, and why reverse innovation is on the rise, and why the implications are so profound. What new skills must you learn in order to be successful? by Angel Cabrera and Gregory Unruh.

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The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge.

CO2

Business organizations are not built for innovation; they are built for efficiency.&# – Vijay Govindarajan In The Other Side of Innovation the authors demonstrate their absolute knowledge of an area that many organizations need more of, innovation! There is just one little problem. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Task Shifting Could Help Lower Costs in U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

This simple idea — that one should match the skill level of the individual to the skill requirements of a task — has influenced how many businesses operate. Task shifting of this kind moves routine tasks requiring lower skills away from high-skilled professionals. Vijay Govindarajan Ravi Ramamurti.

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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

Vijay Govindarajan Ravi Ramamurti. HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. It had performed almost 2,000 procedures, including 759 cath-lab procedures. Further Reading. Add to Cart.

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Can AI Tell Us When To Use AI And When Not To?

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, a central theme of Lumina Foundation CEO James Merisotis’ latest book, Human Work , is that we often struggle to truly understand what skills we have, and indeed what skills we need to have in order to thrive in the modern labor market. Reinventing healthcare.