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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

When people think of consultants, they tend to visualize professionally suited employees, degrees from the best schools, high pay-checks and fancy travel stories. For that reason, management consultants form the vast majority in the advisory branch – more than half of all advisors can be defined as a management consultant.

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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

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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. One large nonprofit system that has been struggling with its costs had a “president of strategy,” prima facie evidence of a serious culture problem!

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