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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. Methodology. billion) in the year to end-March 2016.

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow

He earned his PhD in resource management, underlining his expertise. Preparing Dinner (Resource & Quantity Buffer). This is different from saving money for investment purposes, which is about growing your financial resources over time. Keeping a Spare Tire (Risk & Resource Buffer). Having Insurance (Risk Buffer).

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Executive leadership and organizational performance: Suggestions for a new theory and methodology. Influential leaders increase two-way communication, creativity, collaboration, job attitudes, and organizational commitment. References: Anderson, R., & & Adams, W. & Lord, R. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Collins, J.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

Upon realizing that their findings were highly applicable to the problems of sales force sizing and resource allocation, they decided to investigate further. They were stunned by the duo’s model’s accuracy and its ability to solve sales force sizing, sales resource allocation, and territory alignment issues!

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How Self-Care Became So Much Work

Harvard Business

In a 2017 review of meditation studies from the past two decades, author and psychologist David Creswell, who directs the Health and Human Performance Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, examined the methodological limitations of recent mindfulness studies.

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Substitute Doctors Are Becoming More Common. What Do We Know About Their Quality of Care?

Harvard Business

physicians working as locum tenens has risen steadily from an estimated 26,000 physicians in 2002 to 48,000 physicians in 2016, or approximately 5% of the physician workforce. At the same time, there has been concern over whether locum tenens physicians provide lower quality care compared to permanent staff.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Independently, Michael Porter’s Social Progress Index in 2016 specifically highlighted opportunity in Manizales as significantly higher than both Medellin and Bogota. In contrast, our scale up methodology assumes that selfless contributions of time and resources – donating blood, if you will – for growth can only go so far.