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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. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

Cost increases of about $400mm are expected to be offset by other synergies in the two separate companies at the end of 2017. The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. Some leadership teams inhabit these models as though they are second nature.

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Top Consulting Firms

CaseInterview.com

Semi-annual evaluations focus on areas likethought leadership, client leadership, and people leadership. It was founded in 1963 and was one of the first enterprises to focus on thought leadership. It was ranked #3 best place to work on Glassdoor in 2018 and 2017. BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP. Work-Life Balance.

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Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care

Harvard Business

We also invested significant leadership time in performing final interviews for all roles — from medical assistants to physician leaders — to ensure that each team member would strengthen the team’s dedication. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams.

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How to Make Your Post-Merger Reorg a Success

Harvard Business

From the $68 billion CVS-Aetna deal to the $27 billion merger of Microsoft and LinkedIn , 2017 set records with more than 50,000 deals , valued at $3.7 consume more of leadership’s time (41%–60% of their time, on average, as compared with 20%–40% for other reorgs). japatino/Getty Images. billion acquisition of GitHub.

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Why There’s No Such Thing as a Corporate Entrepreneur

Harvard Business

Employees of large companies just don’t go to those lengths, and often, the corporate strategy or leadership changes and doesn’t allow them to persist in perfecting a new concept. ” By June 2017, all three had been cut loose and their projects shelved. Finding new ways to fuel growth is essential.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business

During my years at OSHA, where I served as the Assistant Secretary of Labor from 2009 through the beginning of 2017, I received several reports of safety system failures at DuPont facilities. The reality is that virtually all workplace injuries are preventable, and safety management and operational excellence are intimately linked.