“Effectively Engaging Leadership” by XONITEK’s Rick Hulse & Continued Support of the Operational Excellence Society – Published in Lean Management Journal in April 2012.
ByHBR.org
After a 1999 report revealed that upto 98,000 patients die in hospitals annually due to medical errors that could have been prevented, the attempt at improving health care has become a central goal in clinical, research, government and political arenas. With medical errors still being a pervasive problem, the healthcare industry is pressed to address this issue through…
Those Americans who receive health care insurance through their employees may need to get comfortable with digging even deeper into their pockets. Over the next 18 months, businesses are expected to implement healthcare plans requiring higher deductibles. Large up-front, out-of-pocket costs are anticipated to become mandatory before any insurance coverage kicks in. This is because…
According to Bloomberg, marketers mistakenly thought the Web would allow perfectly targeted ads. As based on a study last year in conjunction with the Association of National Advertisers, most of your digital ad audience isn’t even human anymore. So, who, or what views these ads that marketers had previously hoped to promote to people? Well, turns…
The Chinese internet is developing at an impressive pace. Already it is the world’s largest online population, with over 60% of the country are not even online yet. As this population grows, so does the number of characteristics of the Chinese internet that make its uniquely distinctive from that of the Western world. This seems…
ByTED
Author & Entrepreneur Isaac Lidsey shares his profound insight on the nature of reality in this introspective, possibly life-altering TED talk. Is reality something we perceive, or is it something we create in our minds? In this personally profound talk, he promulgates the latter and challenges us to release our assumptions and face our fears,…
The Economist reports on the world’s next imminent step forward – the continued alleviation of poverty. Statistics show that nearly 1 billion people have been taken out of extreme poverty in 20 years, so it’s not too far-fetched to assume the world can well continue this trend. Some 5 decades after Harry Truman expressed his concern…
