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The team’s mission is to design policy interventions based on a scientific understanding of human behavior. Recently, for instance, hoping to fight antimicrobial resistance, they tried to persuade some prescription-happy doctors to go easy on the antibiotics. GALLAGHER: We had a very simple intervention, which...
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April 13, 2017 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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When it comes to economic data, it can be difficult to separate what people believe to be true from what they want to be true. “People need to be a little more scientific and a little less political in the nature of their interpretation,” says...
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March 8, 2017 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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Over the years, oncologist Barbara McAneny, MD, had grown increasingly frustrated with what hospitals were doing to her patients. Every time chemotherapy complications sent someone to an emergency room, which happens all too often, “they’d come out a little bit worse, each time just another...
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January 26, 2017 Bruce Benson
Innovation
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But testing the truth of what appears obvious is kind of what science is all about, and the latest study, conducted by researchers from University College London and Duke University, set out to test whether telling small lies really did pave the way for telling...
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November 10, 2016 Bruce Benson
Honesty
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Check out the stunning numbers recently cited in a New York Times article: 1 percent of Baby Boomers claimed to be vegetarian, which then progressed to 4 percent of Gen X’ers saying no to meat, and onward to an even bigger bump with roughly 12...
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November 2, 2016 Bruce Benson
Requirements Management
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The other thing that I love looking at is how much time am I spending in meetings vs. what I would call focused time. You absolutely need to be in meetings, because, after all, you don’t do a CEO’s job by locking yourself in your...
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September 21, 2016 Bruce Benson
Communication
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What’s the worst advice you ever got? Listen to what your boss tells you. My boss never liked the idea of Spider-Man. He didn’t want to do it. I had to sneak Spider-Man into another book, over my boss’s head. Experts really know nothing. Stan Lee...
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August 13, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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The cause of [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)] considering a ban as the result of investigations by federal regulators of how Theranos clinical business operates, may be summed up by a series of the following headlines in a long 33-page letter CMS sent...
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July 14, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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Carole Rogin, president of the Hearing Industries Association, a trade group. She says the White House panel, which is made up of academics and business executives — including Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet, the holding company for Google—is approaching the problem of undertreated hearing...
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May 12, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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Data we’ve collected show that in the U.S only 30 percent of people are engaged at work. There’s another 52 percent that are what we’d call not engaged, who do the minimum required but don’t really go above and beyond. And then there’s another 18...
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May 5, 2016 Bruce Benson
Staffing
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Whether the demand is for capping the rise in Earth’s temperatures, creating therapies to halt memory loss in the elderly or expanding farm output to meet the world’s growing population, the answer is the same: Set targets. The urge to target is varied and insistent...
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April 27, 2016 Bruce Benson
Planning
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“What RevUp really is,” says Joe Rospars, an Obama campaign veteran who founded Blue State Digital (a partner and investor in RevUp), “is a software version of Steve himself. He’s put his personality and experience into code.” Steve Spinner Just Fixed The Worst Thing About...
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April 7, 2016 Bruce Benson
Innovation
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Who doesn’t want recognition for their hard work and contributions? Early in my career I wanted to believe if you worked hard, and added value, you would be rewarded. I wanted to believe in the utopian ideal that hard work, discipline, and contributions were the...
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March 31, 2016 Bruce Benson
Honesty
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You often leave with a rosy glow, a sense of resolve, and a commitment to do more, for other women and for yourself. But then you return to your desk, probably next to a higher-paid male co-worker, and the old, familiar malaise sets in. There...
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March 2, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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What most surprised you during your research? McGregor: That hands-off leadership doesn’t work. That’s the type of leader I used to be. I knew enough not to use toxic behaviors, like yelling and using punishments. I thought that people wanted lots of autonomy, which meant that I...
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November 11, 2015 Bruce Benson
Management
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