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Preview Thursday: Clarity First

Lead Change Blog

The project launched with ambiguous purpose leaves the project manager free to interpret results to his advantage. It allows product quality issues to persist to the point of costly and reputation-sapping recalls, or market-share erosion. Lack of clarity runs the meeting with no agenda.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES. Healthcare Leaders.

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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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Liberating Patients from Mechanical Ventilation Sooner

Harvard Business Review

At the Mayo Clinic, we implemented sedation-weaning and ventilator-weaning protocols and a color-coded communications scheme in the ICU in an effort to more quickly identify mechanically ventilated patients who were able to be awakened and breathe on their own. The Challenge.

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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

The most successful implementations have had strong executive support, exceptional clinical leaders, and dedicated, multi-disciplinary project teams. Among the implementing provider groups, Mayo Clinic stands out for its exemplary approach, which has enabled it to consistently enhance care delivery and realize cost efficiencies.

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Virtual Health Care Could Save the U.S. Billions Each Year

Harvard Business Review

We believe uses of virtual health hold potential to boost the capacity of primary care doctors—without adding or training more professionals—at a time when the American Association of Medical Colleges projects a shortage of as many as 40,000 primary care physicians (PCPs) in the next decade.

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How to Work Confidently with Numbers People

Harvard Business Review

Managers may feel, “Those numbers guys are always ruining our projects.” ” Set up frequent meetings and project-reporting sessions so that they fully understand the business. Adam Blake is the co-founder of ThriveHive, which offers low-cost, customized marketing services to small businesses.

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