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Retired Medical Center CEO and author describes need for improved teamwork and culture of safety
Dr. Stephen Schimpff, retired CEO of the University of Maryland Medical Center and author of The Future of Medicine: Megatrends in Healthcare, discusses the growing need for health care companies to adopt a multi-disciplinary team approach to care to treating the growing incidence of chronic disease. He writes that this team approach mostly does not happen today, in part, it is because of an entrenched medical culture, which needs to change. In his book, Dr. Schimpff devotes a chapter to preventing medical errors. He writes about the need to change traditionally punitive hospital cultures to cultures of safety, which requires a shift in thinking and open communication. "Accountability must start with the CEO and spread on down through the ranks of physicians and staff to reinforce the desired behaviors."
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Adding values to valuations: the need for CEOs to be institution builders
What characteristics do you think will be increasingly sought in leaders for a globalizing world? According to Harvard Business School Professor and author Rosabeth Moss Kanter, CEOs must be institution-builders who can unite highly diverse people with a common underlying purpose and a strong set of universal values. She points to PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi as a strong example in this blog series on how leadership might look in the future.
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One Strategy: aligning planning and execution for maximum impact
Former Microsoft Window 7 development team leader Steven Sinofsky and Harvard Business School Professor Marco Iansiti examine the benefits of a "one strategy" approach to align strategic planning and organizational execution for maximum impact in a new book. Prof. Iansiti discusses the organizational benefits of strategic integrity, a state when top-down, directed strategy is executed with the full, aligned backing of the organization for maximum impact.
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The collaborative cultural traits of T-shaped people
Tom Brown, CEO of IDEO, discusses cultivating a
collaborative culture and why his company looks to recruit T-shaped people. IDEO is a world-leading design firm that is consistently ranked as one of the most
innovative companies in the world. IDEO is famous for its method of
innovation based on intense cross-disciplinary project work.
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Leading the culture transformation of an organization requires an awareness of and a focus on four principles. Find out what they are.
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