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The Key to Career Growth: Surround Yourself with People Who Will Push You

Harvard Business

We carefully choose our places of employment and invest significant time and effort in training within them. Drucker Forum 2018 This article is one in a series related to the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum , with the theme “ Management. The human dimension ” taking place on November 29 & 30, 2018 in Vienna, Austria.

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Engaging Employees in Health Care Data Security

Harvard Business

Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. Healthcare is a high stress environment, where, understandably, information security training is often not the top priority.

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Two Questions to Ask Before You Set Up an Innovation Unit

Harvard Business

What the company wanted to do was to create a kind of “top-gun” center that could train business unit-level team members and support the most innovative and critical initiatives of the company. In 2018, Merck opened its new Innovation Center at the company’s Darmstadt headquarters. Intuit is a case in point.

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The Internet of Things Is Going to Change Everything About Cybersecurity

Harvard Business

The constant drumbeat of threats and attacks is becoming so mainstream that businesses are expected to invest more than $93 billion in cyber defenses by 2018. The False Panacea of Security Training. IoT training and awareness programs certainly will not do anything to help, so what’s the answer?

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Pros and Cons of Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) Why a “Virtual PEO” May be the Better Option

Emerson Consulting Group

For example, the CEO of McBassie & Company reported in 2018 that 750,000 US companies with 3.7 Arguably, it’s hiring and training. And who will do the hiring and training? Matt also founded Hollister Insurance in 2000, which merged with Business Benefits in 2018. 1] Bassi, Laurie (September 2018). 2] [link]. [3]

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Do Doctors Get Worse as They Get Older?

Harvard Business

In response, the ABIM announced it would offer a new assessment option starting in January 2018, allowing doctors to be recertified through shorter, but more frequent, assessments. Another explanation may be that physicians are most skilled in the few years after residency training. As the physician workforce in the U.S.