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The Flexible Method: How to Survive and Thrive Through the Next Crisis

Leading Blog

template ] Develop a procedure for every contingency. Take lessons from the past to constructively plan for the future. Have the confidence to innovate, think, and experiment. Care For Your Team’s Mental Health. Mind Your Own Health. In crises, winning organizations act like start-ups. Learn From History.

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How to Matter: The 5 Key Ways Companies Win

Leading Blog

Large to small, in fields from construction to tech to health care, they win hearts, minds and wallets by innovating ways to stay the obvious choice in the market. The legacy firm continues to innovate and form key partnerships to sustain the health of the marketplace. Care about more than profits.

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Employee Turnover – The Hidden Cost

Chart Your Course

You have to watch your competitors and seek to always adapt to changes in the market, and innovate for solutions. The highest turnover rates were in construction and hospitality. There are many tasks involved in running a successful business. You have to understand your customer so you can provide a product people want.

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The Contrasting Fortunes Of Work In Healthcare And Manufacturing

The Horizons Tracker

As unemployment has remained relatively low throughout many developed countries, the focus has turned instead to the creation of ‘good jobs’ There is a feeling that many of the new jobs are insecure, poorly paid and with few career prospects, and the positive unemployment stats therefore hide a multitude of sins. ”

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How Health Care Providers Can Ensure Patients’ End-of-Life Wishes Are Known

Harvard Business Review

M’s daughter, was aware that he had signed an advance directive — a document detailing his end-of-life preferences — let alone that it was available at his primary care physician’s office, a few miles away. This uncomfortable scenario will sound familiar to most health care professionals. Insight Center.

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How the Architecture of Hospitals Affects Health Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

The size and layout of a room, whether a bed sits in the middle or against a wall (even which wall), how much space is maintained for patients to walk versus how many beds or operating equipment can be accommodated, have not been considered predictors of health outcomes in the past. The Future of Health Care. Insight Center.

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How a Startup Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Helps Doctors Launch Companies

Harvard Business Review

Physicians, nurses, and others who work on the front lines of patient care are an important potential source for innovations that could improve patients’ health and reduce the cost of care. Boston Children’s Hospital designed an innovation accelerator to overcome these hurdles. Insight Center.