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How John F. Kennedy Changed Decision Making for Us All

Harvard Business Review

For that, he leaves a huge legacy in management. Eighteen months earlier, he’d made arguably the worst decision he ever made, to support an ill-conceived covert operation to unseat Fidel Castro, known today as the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Crisis management Decision making Government' But at the time, success was hardly assured.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Handoffs for the Long Term

Harvard Business Review

Janis Christie/Getty Images. The problem is two-fold: first, hospital administrators and managers struggle to effectively implement these tools. To fix this, in 2012 hospital administrators and managers implemented TeamSTEPPS , a commonly used set of evidence-based strategies and tools (e.g., Adopting a more systematic process.