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Preview Thursday: Clarity First

Lead Change Blog

Ambiguity prevents organizations from operating with focus, discipline, and engagement. It allows product quality issues to persist to the point of costly and reputation-sapping recalls, or market-share erosion. Lack of clarity insinuates itself into the organization in hundreds of ways, both obvious and insidious.

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Bank of America: Yesterday and Today

Coaching Tip

Over the last few decades, the US has transformed from a "real economy" (where capital market manias tend to be contained by the availability of savings and credit) to a "financial economy" where the unlimited availability of credit leads to speculative bubbles (read: the roaring '20s & '90s) which get totally out of hand.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. John Noseworthy – President and CEO, Mayo Clinic. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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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. Challenges.

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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).

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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.