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Preview Thursday: Clarity First

Lead Change Blog

The manager who posts a vague job description is able to put off defining the specific responsibilities for the role. The project launched with ambiguous purpose leaves the project manager free to interpret results to his advantage. Ambiguity prevents organizations from operating with focus, discipline, and engagement.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Bank of America: Yesterday and Today

Coaching Tip

Rushing into the shattered city, he managed to have $80,000 in gold loaded onto a horse cart covered with vegetables before fire consumed the bank building. Many investors are trying to put their arms around Bank of America’s problems and have been left fluttering in the wind,” says Mike Mayo, a bank analyst with Crédit Agricole in New York.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes.

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The Biggest U.S. Health Care Challenges Are Management Challenges

Harvard Business Review

Over the past two years, we’ve convened health care leaders at roundtables and other events to discuss the challenges and opportunities they face, both inside their organization and from the external market. More than three-quarters said they are on a good path to successfully compete in their local markets.

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Turning Value-Based Health Care into a Real Business Model

Harvard Business Review

At Mayo Clinic, surgeons who perform lumpectomies or partial mastectomies for breast cancer work during the operation with the Frozen Section Pathology Lab to determine whether all the cancer has been removed. Yes, 20 minutes is valuable extra time in an operating room while the surgeon and staff wait for pathology findings.

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Hospital Coalitions Save Money and Improve Care

Harvard Business Review

It used to be that hospitals and health systems operated as islands, selecting and purchasing medical supplies, devices and medications in isolation, and keeping their operational and leadership practices to themselves. An example of this type of collaboration is VHA’s Upper Midwest Consolidated Services Center (USMCSC).