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Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes

Harvard Business

Despite spending twice what other developed nations spend on a per capita basis for health care, the United States has a longstanding trend of having lower life expectancy, greater prevalence of chronic disease, and overall poorer health outcomes. These barriers could not be addressed with FFS.

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Higher Wages Aren’t Enough to Turn Mediocre Jobs into Good Ones

Harvard Business

Higher wages are also necessary for many companies that are stuck in a vicious cycle of bad jobs, bad operations, bad customer service, low productivity, and high costs. So, we applaud Amazon’s decision and hope others will do the same. But higher wages alone are not enough to break this vicious cycle. Predictable schedules.

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How Good Companies Become Market Leaders (Without an Infusion of Capital): Interview with Charles Browne

Consulting Matters

After eight years of service, I left and worked at a couple of commercial nuclear power plants and earned a project management certification and a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt, along with my engineering degree. I’m not a strict operator. Sometimes it’s not operational capacity.