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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. Training and Development. Guest Writer Submissions. To Subscribe to a Blog.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Underlying this notion was the lack of tangible results that could be attributed to management training. One experiment generated a 2.6%

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

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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. This approach is helping us improve outcomes and reduce cost, which creates a foundation for success regardless of the reimbursement model.