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How to Improve Governance for Your Hospital Board

Board Effect

The C-suite, along with the frontline clinical and operational staff are the responsible parties for healthcare governance. Liam Donaldson was the first one to come up with the idea of clinical governance around 1998. That’s still a worthy goal for today’s healthcare providers. What Does Good Governance for Hospitals Look Like?

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

Prabhdeep Singh: We were founded in 1998 to serve top professionals — then it was investors — who weren’t really learning from the dry, one-dimensional, one-size-fits-all industry reports and conferences available to them. David Teten: As you know, almost every VC fund operates as effectively a mini expert network.

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How did Jeff Bezos scale Amazon without destroying its entrepreneurial culture?

Version One Ventures

Amazon ’s magic is that it’s a behemoth of a company that still operates like a founder-driven start-up in several key areas. These are Amazon employees who are skilled evaluators and interview job candidates. For example, Mike George joined Amazon in 1998 through Junglee’s acquisition.

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How Startups Can Beat Seasonality

YoungUpstarts

I’ve been investing in, buying and restructuring small businesses for over 20 years and it’s a passion of mine to see everyone succeed from employees to shareholders, owners and investors. Inspire Employee Engagement Year Round. by Ted Karkus, CEO of Prophase Labs. Along these lines I had Prophase Labs launch an allergy medicine.

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The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. Except I disagree with that definition of “success.” Support.com — On 2.5m

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McKinsey highlight #1 - Cracking The Code - Yes

Cracking the Code

Paris, November 1998. TOP or Total Operational Performance, is a cost cutting approach, where your objective is to cut 40% of all the "not-strictly-necessary costs" by doing things differently. we started to tackle the plant food service where the 2,000 employees had their daily lunch. Saturday, December 09, 2006.

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Go-Getters Showcase

Mike Michalowicz

Always an entrepreneur at heart, Eric recognized small and medium sized businesses needed access to cost-effective, quality technology expertise and founded On Line Support in 1998. Now we have 70 employees and serve 5000 children every day. Eric is the kind of guy who’s always out to learn more, experience more, and give more.