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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

How about reengineering, total quality management, performance management, learning organization, value analysis, managed care, or employee satisfaction? If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To My most recent peer review included a comment that I needed to get a better car.

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The Role of Research

LDRLB

Last week, Bob Sutton wrote on his blog: “most management books are based on anecdotes, the biased recollections of some famous executives, or on research that is presented as rigorous (but is not…Good to Great is a perfect example).”. Over the weekend, I’ve found myself struggling to reconcile two recent comments in my head.

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The Role of Research

LDRLB

Last week, Bob Sutton wrote on his blog: “most management books are based on anecdotes, the biased recollections of some famous executives, or on research that is presented as rigorous (but is not…Good to Great is a perfect example).”. Leadership evidence-based management practice research simmons sutton'

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

They learned and practiced how to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts, build teams to succeed, lead meetings that didn’t waste time, lead change that would stick, walk the talk with our organizational values, and finally how to engage and manage our talent. High quality service was not a value before we started.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

One area so far relatively untouched is change management. The combination of predictive analytics, large data sets, and the processing power of today’s computers is starting to transform change management. But before that can happen, we have to understand why data has failed to catch on in change management to date.

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Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

And the risk can be managed through a new kind of tool called “feature gates.”. Here is a quick look at how Google and HubSpot have managed to achieve remarkable speed in product releases while simultaneously reducing risk. Google’s operation stands out for its scale. Google’s Automated Test Machine.

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Better Ways to Communicate Hospital Data to Physicians

Harvard Business Review

length of stay, post-operative recovery profile) combined with cost data may be the most effective solution. This was particularly true for more veteran physicians and those with private-practice experience who have had greater exposure to managing cost information.