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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. The executives and senior leadership of the hospital set the tone for the hospital’s culture. That’s still a worthy goal for today’s healthcare providers. What Does Good Governance for Hospitals Look Like?

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“What the Heck Is Wrong With My Leadership?”

YoungUpstarts

Viljakainen, author of “ No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age “ In 1998, I sold part of my company (which I had founded in 1986, when I was 13) to the Finnish IT services firm Tieto. The best score was 100; I had started out, in 1998, in the 90s. It was a true leadership nightmare. by Pekka A.

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[Review] Good To Great

YoungUpstarts

He mentioned that Gillette started faltering in 1998 when its leadership became distracted by non-core projects in the book. Not Time Telling, Genius of AND, Core Ideology and Preserve the Core/Stimulate Progress are related to the six concepts highlighted above.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. . And what interests me is who makes the money on timing these trends. .

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Why Sending Your Workers ‘Back To School’ Is Good Business

YoungUpstarts

Now, he has created a book club at his company to encourage and incentivize everyone to continue to grow and learn, and he requires the senior-leadership team to read a minimum of 12 books a year. One of my biggest regrets and mistakes in life is that I didn’t start reading books until age 40. Target lifelong learners in recruiting efforts.

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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. Nevertheless, she certainly has had numerous successes. Her first startup was Bridge Communications, an early networking company that she built to more than 400 people.

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Thoughts on our three-speed economy and business planning in the 21st century

The Equity Kicker

Steve Denning , one of my new favourite writers recently wrote on Forbes about Leadership in the three-speed economy. This concept of a a three-speed economy is powerful, although I think ‘three-sector’ would be more accurate.