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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

Diagnosing and changing organizational culture: Based on the competing values framework (Third ed.). & Quinn, R. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Heffernan, M. Why Mergers Fail. link] Schein, E. & Schein, P. Organizational culture and leadership, 5th edition (5th ed.) John Wiley & Sons. & Mirvis, P.

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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 One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business

The 2012 OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study showed the UK invested the 8th largest amount out of 34 OECD countries, but only came 19th in mathematics, 14th in science and 16th in reading. The strength of a nation’s economy and the vitality of its society depend on the quality of its schools.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

The work was distributed: NASA ISS program managers led the effort at the operational level and worked with international counterparts to implement the program. much of ISS training and program management took place at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. This model has changed NASA’s technology strategy.