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Hospitals Can’t Improve Without Better Management Systems

Harvard Business Review

In all of the loud and necessary debates over how to reform health care in the United States before it bankrupts the country, there is one element that has been continually overlooked: the management systems employed by hospitals. This 20 th century system essentially has leadership establishing objectives for managers to achieve.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Teach and institute leadership to improve all job functions. Substitute leadership methods for improvement. Alternatively, learn the capabilities of processes and how to improve them. Many management thinkers have built upon Deming’s philosophy, yet his core message seems lost to time. Institute on-the-job training.

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