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How to Improve Governance for Your Hospital Board

Board Effect

Liam Donaldson was the first one to come up with the idea of clinical governance around 1998. These are the metrics by which hospitals can and should be assessing their governance practices. That’s still a worthy goal for today’s healthcare providers. What Does Good Governance for Hospitals Look Like?

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The True Costs Of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

You’ll find that entrepreneurs do outscore the general population on learning, enjoyment, sense of purpose and other uplifting metrics. No, talking on the phone isn’t ‘social’; no, emailing witty messages to your client crush won’t give you real community; no, I don’t care how important you are on reddit or Instagram. Find your tribe.

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Serial CEO Judy Estrin On Startups and Innovation

ReadWriteStart

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. The point here is that you can have very different and all valid success metrics, but it is important to keep in mind what you are trying to accomplish with your startup venture.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Yet even among those who have access to good actionable metrics, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that prevents taking maximum advantage of data. Too much of this data is non- actionable.

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. Crowdfunding communities are no different. For example, potential donors in the Kickstarter community are more likely to fund your project if you’ve donated to other Kickstarter projects. Strategy: Trigger Their Self-Awareness.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

Although this is not typically how athenahealth is described, it is one way to describe what they are doing that mainstream members of the technology community might understand. I have found it pretty amazing that so few people in the tech community know their story or understand the scale and scope of what they have achieved.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

This is another sub-optimization caused by incentivizing the wrong metric. You are doing the startup community a great service by sharing your insights via your blog. This can be especially challenging for HR professionals who measure their success based on the number of jobs they fill. This post has been removed by the author.

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