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Surgeons Are Using Social Media to Share and Learn New Skills

Harvard Business Review

One member of the RSC Facebook group told us that participating in RSC provides “collaborative input on my own patients and cases from ‘experts’” and reveals “operative options that I hadn’t considered.”

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

These intangible factors like culture, leadership, and motivation do not yield easily to empirical analysis. There are also heated academic debates over how to measure leadership effectiveness, motivation, and culture. The issue is that they operate as artisans, not scientists.

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Better Ways of Thinking About Risks

Harvard Business Review

The set of such methods, tested by peer review of their scientific foundations and success with their application, is actually quite small — and familiar to most business school graduates. It includes decision analysis, game theory, and operations research. job-specific knowledge and skills).

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

In contrast to “transformational” and “authentic” leadership, which has been criticized for being fuzzy and wishy-washy , “fitness leadership,” as we refer to it, offers a more concrete approach. During 2016, employee engagement increased by 3%, to 75%.

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How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

All companies screen candidates for skill sets and experience. They are put in those positions because of their strong people skills. It’s harder for politicians to operate if everyone is on the same page. Frequent question-and-answer sessions with leadership. Reviews also come in from colleagues in other functions.