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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%. Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains. So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed.

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Rushing Back From Covid-19 Could Be Hugely Dangerous

The Horizons Tracker

This approach provides the best outcomes in terms of both health and the economy. Data was sourced from a wide range of peer-reviewed sources, to give them a full picture of the pandemic. These models typically divide people into one of four compartments: those who are susceptible, exposed, infectious, or recovered.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

They undermine productivity and account for more than 85% of health care costs — a big reason premiums for employer-sponsored health care have increased by 123% since 2000 while wages have increased by only 43%. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Training programs, pilots, or short-term trials may be available.