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Hope Is What People Need from Leaders Today

Michael Lee Stallard

The optimism we may have ordinarily had in past years as we turned the calendar to January and considered all of the new possibilities that lay ahead of us is a little harder to muster up this time. Wouldn’t it be nice if a new year truly ushered in a fresh start? Many people are exhausted and struggling.

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Multi dimensional goal setting

Jason Womack

Is a goal you have set for the next 6-18 months clear? So, it may seem intuitive to write down your upcoming projects. I learn best when 2 things happen: 1. Information comes toward me in a variety of ways; and 2. Information comes toward me again, later. Do you know where you are heading, ready to turn left when it's time?

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Telephone Communication: Make an Impression!

Strategy Driven

In our global market place we are now conducting business with people we have not and may never meet. On the other hand, a nasal whine, a raspy tone or strident volume can drive colleagues to distraction according to an article in the Wall Street Journal published in April, 2013. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Take a Walk, Sure, but Don’t Call It a Break

Harvard Business Review

In fact, some of the most important work you may ever do can be done walking. Last year I gave the closing talk at the 2013 TED Conference. I rehearsed the talk entirely on icy-cold morning walks over the course of about two months last January and February. Walking affords no such distractions. It’s just you and the work.

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Building a Culture of Transparency in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

For example, employees may be reluctant to report safety issues or errors for fear of being reprimanded by their managers or shunned by their colleagues. Barriers to internal transparency. A culture of internal transparency does not come about overnight. There can be many barriers, some of which can be quite complex. ” A new paradigm.

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The Sequestration Cuts that Are Harming Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Nearly eight months into sequestration , we can move beyond predictions and begin to quantify these effects. noted the irony that because of sequester cuts, NIH funding was reduced for the research that resulted in Yale’s James Rothman sharing in the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Cuts to 2013 budget : $285 Million or 5%.

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Health Insurance Exchanges Fulfill Both Liberal and Conservative Goals

Harvard Business Review

And no one should doubt that what happens in the next few months is extremely important—as former cabinet officer Wilbur Cohen said, good policy is 1% inspiration and 99% implementation. In 2017, they may open up to still larger businesses and to state and local governments. in the September 26, 2013 New England Journal of Medicine.).