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Leadership Tip #11: Substitute the Word Trust for Empower

Johanna Rothman

When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board. Why do managers persist in demanding teams use a “standard” board, or use “standard” metrics, such as velocity?

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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. IT consultants focus on transition projects in the ICT-landscape, contrary to regular IT-employees who work on day-to-day IT operations. Which cities should it prioritize?

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Coronavirus: Analysis, Conclusions & Takeaways

CaseInterview.com

Sample-Size Problem Excessive Focus on Fatality Rate + Insufficient Focus on R0 (how many people an infected person infects before they’ve recovered) Psychological “Panic” about the Wrong Things (toilet paper) Insufficient Focus on Medical System Scalability (equipment, personnel, & system throughput).

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To Change Your Strategy, First Change How You Think

Harvard Business

Therefore his mental model was not how to gain market share from other airlines, but how to create a completely new market for air travel. In contrast, companies like JetBlue decided to emulate Southwest’s entire system: mental model, business model, and measurement model. ” Other carriers fly airplanes that carry people.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business

Purchasers of healthcare services encounter widely disparate charges across different healthcare delivery systems for equivalent surgical procedures, varying by up to 40%. Fewer than 5% of healthcare systems initially identified for participation in ECEN meet all of the quality requirements for consideration.

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The Top 8 Undergrad Consulting Majors

Management Consulted

A fun fact – Jenny Rae was an economics major at UVA, but famously decided to shave her head and travel the world after graduation (yeah, her parents were really proud). Political Science – Political Science is really about the study of systems. Now granted, not all engineering degrees are created equal.

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

While current devices can capture important vital signs and other fitness metrics, their ability to diagnose and treat chronic conditions is currently limited. His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. The future is bright for wearables as many tech firms are jumping into the market.