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How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent

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Examples: making a will, investigating a lump, succession planning for your business, actually reading your insurance policies, or creating that crisis management plan. Likewise, when it comes to money, there are certain personal finance bloggers I like to read from time to time to help me stay on track.

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Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases

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For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. The workshops companies invest in typically teach them to constantly check their thoughts for bias.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

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The ideas have also been embraced by public policy makers, health plans, and the general public. From this perspective, the enthusiasm of policy makers and health plans to simply increase access to primary care as a way to address delivery challenges is a cop-out. Less Time, Better Care. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.

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