‘Chronic
Time Abuse’
Steven
Berglas
Harvard Business Review, June 2004
Time
may be the most precious commodity we have. Berglas, a clinical
psychologist, discusses the psychological underpinnings to time
abuse and why typical time management techniques don’t help
some people. He comments on:
- Preemptives
- People
Pleasers
- Perfectionists
- Procrastinator
As
some of us are in these profiles, or if we are not we have to deal
with those who are, this gives some cogent advice for dealing with
the issues.
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‘Redefining
Competition in Health Care’
Michael
E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmstead Teisberg
Harvard Business Review, June 2004
Healthcare
has become so expensive that corporate CEO’s have begun to
complain about their companies’ employee benefit plan costs.
This article illustrates what has caused the problems in the industry:
- Wrong
level of competition
- Wrong
forms of competition
- Wrong
objective
- Wrong
geographic market
- Wrong
strategies and structure
- Wrong
information
- Wrong
payer incentives
Porter
and Teisberg point ways to fix the system, and importatnly, what
employers can immediately do to reduce their own costs.
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‘What
makes an Effective Executive’
Peter
F. Drucker
Harvard Business Review, June 2004
Peter
Drucker says more, in less words, than anyone else writing on management
today. And, he has been doing so for a long time. This article points
out the essentials for being an effective, and successful, executive
in any organization or industry.
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