Peace on Earth and Good Will to Workers
Thursday, 12. 22. 2011 – Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention, HR Technology, Management Tips
We hosted an interesting tweet chat this week with an illustrious group of HR experts regarding their reflections on 2011 and predictions for 2012. We talked about a variety of issues that have been hot topics in 2011 and that will undoubtedly continue to be important in 2012: employee engagement, closing the skills gap between [...]
Generations, Inc. – A Conversation with Meagan and Larry Johnson
Friday, 09. 23. 2011 – Category: All Blog Posts, Management Tips, Podcast
I recently had the pleasure of talking to Meagan and Larry Johnson, a daughter-father team who co-authored Generations, Inc. – an instructive manual on how to manage in the inter-generational workplace. Their firm, the Johnson Training Group, has helped a wide variety of organizations with management innovations including American Express, Harley Davidson, and Nordstrom among [...]
Post-digital Health Leadership: Challenge and Capacity
Thursday, 04. 7. 2011 – Category: All Blog Posts, Management Tips
Our board member, Dr. Tim Porter-O’Grady, contributed today’s guest blog post regarding the importance of evidence (data)-driven decision making and service delivery to achieving the effective transformation of our healthcare organizations.
Recently, Michael Porter and colleagues have refocused our attention on the central attributes of a successful health system (1). Within the context of a value [...]
Undercover with the Boss
Wednesday, 02. 17. 2010 – Category: All Blog Posts, Labor Productivity, Management Tips
If you haven’t seen the new CBS TV show Undercover Boss, it’s worth checking out. Perhaps not so much for the cheesy endings (at least on the first two episodes) where outcomes are achieved for individual employees that rival Queen for a Day in terms of bathos. What is “new” here, though, is our ability [...]
Mintzberg on Management
Thursday, 12. 17. 2009 – Category: All Blog Posts, Management Tips
Our board member David Creelman has written a commentary on Henry Mintzberg’s new book, Managing. You can find David’s discussion of this book here. Dr. Mintzberg is a professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal and a frequent contributor to publications like the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, [...]
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