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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

The middle layers spend their entire days in meetings or on conference calls, traveling to meetings outside the hospital, or negotiating contracts with vendors. A key question that must be addressed by a larger system is how many facilities that could not have survived on their own can it manage without damaging its financial position?

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The One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business

By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career. Soldiers like efficiency and order.