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The CURE for Burnout

Consulting Matters

Ask yourself these three questions: As it relates to pure exhaustion, on a scale of 1-5 where one is “I’m operating on fumes. Achievement stressors: Are excessive work hours, heavy travel, scope of the job, and 24/7 accessibility too much? An easy exercise is to start/stop and continue your career, business, and life.

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Job Hub: Virgin Group Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

This group has a startling 300 companies in its portfolio in sectors ranging from travel, telecommunications, health, financial services, leisure, music, space travel, and renewable energy. The group’s travel-related operations, led by 51%-owned Virgin Atlantic Airways, are among its largest cash generators.

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(Value Stream) Map Your Way to a Better Post-Covid Future

Markovitz Consulting

But if you want to thrive in the post-COVID world, you’ve got to start working on operational improvements now. COVID travel restrictions made those customer visits impossible. The Director of Operations pushed his weekly meeting back by one hour so that he could approve the build plan as soon as it was ready.

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Future of Healthcare: Virtual and Augmented Reality

Tom Spencer

Medical student education and resident training, patient therapy, and physician operations are three segments in healthcare with high growth potential for VR and AR technologies. 3 This was developed to provide better insights into how the heart operates and what happens when something goes wrong. . Images: Flickr , Flickr.

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New Technologies in the Insurance Landscape (Part 2 – Blockchain)

Tom Spencer

The exercise of one’s social capital within one’s social network enables participants to obtain a new policy or open a new claim.” If used right we expect it will allow financial transactions to settle faster, cheaper, more transparently and with less operational risk. Blockchain is a hot technology with constant on-going development.

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Pay your team right: A comprehensive guide to compensation

Asamby Consulting

Example: You have been a travel agent with a business travel agency for 10 years. You now enter a luxury, bespoke travel provider. That question becomes especially important when you operate in multiple locations. Travel allowance: Pay your team some flat fee for their daily commute etc.

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Research: Perhaps Market Forces Do Work in Health Care After All

Harvard Business

For decades, experts and policy wonks have argued that health care is a uniquely inefficient industry, insulated from conventional market forces that operate in the rest of the economy. Rather, our findings support the idea that patients do exercise the ability to place demand-side pressure on care providers.