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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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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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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

These are not the foundations of a proper science that verifies knowledge through experiment and replication of findings in peer-reviewed studies. When change management does work, it is due to the work of skilled, experienced professionals who know how to weave together a set of practices to help a business reach its change goals.

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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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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. All managers are reviewed by their teams, and that feedback goes to the managers’ bosses.