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Leadership Pressure is a Privilege

Organizational Talent Consulting

Theodore Roosevelt Reason #1: Pressure Accelerates Change One reason to embrace pressure is that pressure accelerates change, and leadership is about change. In the book Leading Change, renowned change management thought leader John Kotter identified that overcoming complacency to change requires a sense of urgency.

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Gaining Clarity in What You Care About Most Deeply in Your OD Work

Consulting and Organizational Management

Gaining Clarity in What You Care About Most Deeply in Your OD Work By Carter McNamara on December 2, 2012. The profession has become filled with niche players……executive coaching, team building, process improvement, change management, etc. Project Management. Quality Management. Training and Development.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Handoffs for the Long Term

Harvard Business

Roughly 80% of serious medical errors (now the third leading cause of death in the United States behind heart disease and cancer) can be traced to poor communication between care providers during patient handoffs, according to a 2012 Joint Commission report. This makes patient handoffs the most frequent and riskiest procedure in the hospital.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

UNDERSTANDING THE LOCAL CULTURAL CONTEXT Today many industries and organizations operate on a global scale. Diagnosing and changing organizational culture: Based on the competing values framework (Third ed.). However, highly visible and disruptive events like mergers and acquisitions can make cultural differences striking.

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Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes

Harvard Business

However, transitioning to a VBC approach involves added infrastructure, training costs, and complexity of delivering care in an environment that mixes fee-for-service and value-based reimbursement. We have found that a VBC approach can decrease the direct costs of care for a group of children with a chronic condition.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.