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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

It is human nature to look towards others who are successful in a similar position and try to emulate them. The problem rests however in how this pre-occupation with being acknowledged as a “leader” by your peers is perceived by your employees. If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To

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Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

A month after the outbreak started, 164 scientific papers were already available on PubMed with many more papers undergoing peer review. The coronavirus pandemic might have positive consequences. In 2003, it took over a year to achieve half this information with SARS.

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Evidence | Unicorns | Bullshit: 3 Areas Of Team Building & Leadership Effectiveness

Mike Cardus

In management as well as team development humans and behaviors do not operate in the same short term cause-effect process that machines do. Challenging excessive Pollyannaism, Positive Psychology , and beliefs that may be founded upon false assumptions. When something goes wrong we want to blame people , not processes or systems.

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement. The results of our extensive experiment were nothing short of remarkable— and we found that positive, impactful leadership leads to great bottom line results. Leadership Inspirations – How to Have a Positive Impact.

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Better Ways to Communicate Hospital Data to Physicians

Harvard Business Review

Ninety-one percent of respondents to our survey reported that increasing physician access to cost data would have a positive impact on care quality. length of stay, post-operative recovery profile) combined with cost data may be the most effective solution.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

Between 2001 and 2011, the number of CEOs finishing at least one marathon doubled, and in a Swedish survey of nearly 3,000 managers , more than 90% said that physical exercise had a positive impact on their leadership skills. It is true that numerous studies have established a positive link between physical exercise and cognitive performance.

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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

If the first possibility prevails, then it's hard to see how the short-term hit to profits created by political instability could subsequently be made up (unless an investor were granted some favor that created or locked in a favorable market position). The highest estimate that we could find from recent, peer-reviewed studies was a 1.08

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