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Holiday Human-Capital Culling Could Cost

Harmonious Workplaces

In-person, low-paying positions in retail, hospitality, restaurants, and healthcare remain in strong demand, though they may not attract highly skilled talent with college degrees or advanced credentials. They may also add weaknesses and threats to their SWOT analysis, which could impose heavy costs. link] Sverke, M., Hellgren, J.,

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Company Culture: Are You Tolerating Toxicity?

Organizational Talent Consulting

A doctor – let's call him Strange – was a newly hired surgeon employed by a cash-strapped healthcare system. Dr. Strange was considered by executive leadership to be the best surgeon to lead a new, highly competitive, and lucrative service line. Often leadership bad habits trickle down and become acceptable ways of behaving.

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How Lilly Is Getting More Women into Leadership Positions

Harvard Business

Much has been written about the troubling lack of women in leadership roles generally and in health care in particular. In 2015, we conducted a workforce analysis that revealed a significant shortage of women in leadership at our company. At Lilly, we have tackled this problem head-on. Understand your research.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO) is a professional services firm that offers resources to players who are mainly in the healthcare industry. and around the world, with a premier niche in the healthcare space. The Advisory Board company also serves 4,100+ member organizations, most of which are in the healthcare industry.

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What’s Holding Women in Medicine Back from Leadership

Harvard Business

and gender parity is still not reflected in medical leadership. For example, women do not achieve promotions or advancement to leadership positions at the same rate as their male peers. Highly qualified women do not attain independent grants, publications, and leadership positions at the same rate , either. medical schools.

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Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors

Harvard Business

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. Doctors were once viewed as ill-prepared for leadership roles because their selection and training led them to become “heroic lone healers.”

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Boutique vs Large Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

My first project at my current firm was around growth strategy for a healthcare client; I expect my next project to be a commercial due diligence in another industry. As a result, promotion is almost 100% determined by job performance – consultants are not evaluated on leadership and volunteering initiatives. The downside?