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A Meeting Leadership Secret That Will Save You Time and Frustration

Lead Change Blog

After the President shared a few of her ideas regarding equipment or new hires, the VP of Operations suggested they take a vote. The Human Resource Director objected and offered another thought on how the [.] Leadership Development clarity consensus decision making Decisions meetings vote' Author information David M.

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5 Ways U.S. Hospitals Can Respond to Medicare’s Mounting Costs

Harvard Business Review

Medicare’s legacy payment system places a premium on controlling labor and supply expenses and eliminating wasted or low-value imaging procedures and laboratory tests as well as minimizing operating-room time, intensive-care stays, and a host of other expensive services.

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The Future of Talent is In Clusters

Harvard Business Review

Balancing team roles can be particularly important to avoid the Apollo effect , where every team member needs his or her idea to dominate and the team is unable to come to a consensus. I would project that by 2020, 30% of work will be performed by permanently employed, self-managed clusters.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

That’s how groups become mired in consensus, and after a while, everyone thinks and acts alike. Burt asked the managers to write down their best ideas about how to improve business operations, and then he asked two ex­ecutives at the company to rate the quality of these ideas.

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Workplace Democracy – A Genie in A Bottle | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

This company operates its democracy to the extent that: Employees set their own work schedules They don’t use the same workstation more than two days in a row so that no one really knows when they go to work or how long they stay. But what does a truly democratic workplace look like?

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