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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business

Even though medical institutions have designated “leadership” as a core medical competency , leadership skills are rarely taught and reinforced across the continuum of medical training. First, interpersonal literacy is crucial for effective leadership in modern healthcare.

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Role of Change Management Consulting Services

Business Consulting Agency

Whether it’s adopting new technologies, restructuring operations, or shifting strategic direction, change is inevitable. A change management consultant guided the company through the process, providing a roadmap, training, and support. As a result, the ERP system was successfully integrated with minimal disruption to operations.

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. But the scale at Intermountain Healthcare, where more than 2,500 huddles occur every morning, makes it especially illuminating and instructive.

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4 Steps to Sustaining Improvement in Health Care

Harvard Business

Dr. John Toussaint, CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, describes the pilot unit as the “model cell,” a place for experimentation, learning, and modeling new methods for the rest of the system. Without such clearly defined standardized work for the day-to-day operations manager, two things happen.

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The Top 8 Undergrad Consulting Majors

Management Consulted

If you’re an undergrad with a desire to break in to consulting, an economics degree will train your mind to tackle problems and make you an attractive prospect for internships and Masters’ programs. You won’t succeed without having a firm grasp on numbers, markets, analytics, economies of scale and much, much more.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

Inspired by John Kotter’s dual-operating structure model, we asked all of these employees to maintain their “day jobs” within the established hierarchy, while also using 5-10% of their time to work on fast-cycle, informal innovation projects across silos. More than 600 were selected. Three key insights.

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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

Harvard Business

We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. The National Taskforce for Humanity in Healthcare, of which I am a founding member, is piloting a system of metrics for well-being developed by J. We also need to give patients a voice in how health care is delivered.

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