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Understanding the Anger Over Healthcare in One Picture

MishTalk

Healthcare costs have soared. Obamacare failed to live up to its promises. And my lead image dramatically understates the problems with costs.

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What Is Agentic AI, and How Will It Change Work?

Harvard Business

From the early days of mechanical automatons to more recent conversational bots, scientists and engineers have dreamed of a future where AI systems can work and act intelligently and independently. Recent advances in agentic AI bring that autonomous future a step closer to reality. With their supercharged reasoning and execution capabilities, agentic AI systems promise to transform many aspects of human-machine collaboration.

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Collaborative Change Partnerships: The Top 7 Principles

LSA Global

Collaborative Change Partnerships for Initiating Effective Organizational Change Collaborative change partnerships are the vehicle to initiating effective change within an organization. Why? Because most leaders carry ideas about change that stem from additional ideas of command and control leadership. We know from change management simulation data, that top down leadership approaches have a limited and short-lasting impact on behavior change.

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The UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Should Be a Turning Point for Corporate America

Harvard Business

The murder of Brian Thompson and the publics reaction to it shows that frustration with corporations has reached a fever pitch. We seem to have moved from a world of I dont trust you to I hate you, and, many Americans feel a great antipathy toward capitalism and capitalists. This is due, in part, to the failure of business, at large, to deliver value to customers, employees, and communities (as well as shareholders) simultaneously.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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The Four Phases of A Sale and Proposals Accepted Every Time

Alan Weiss

The four phases of a sale, within an hour, to create a proposal that’s accepted every time: Building trust: Exchange insights about the business, the market, prevailing conditions, etc. Demonstrate that you are an astute business person and can talk on a wide variety of subjects. Identifying issues: What are the major opportunities extant from the other’s perspective, and how can progress be best accelerated?

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Continued Unemployment Claims Plus Those with Expired Benefits Tops 3.5 Million

MishTalk

Department of Labor Data and BLS long-term unemployment numbers point to a rapidly weakening labor market.

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6 Lessons from Companies That Shut Down Their Business in Russia

Harvard Business

How leaders made business-altering decisions while navigating pressures from social media, employees, customers, politicians, and the stock market.

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Better at being better

Seth Godin Blog

In most competitive markets, when an organization offers a new benefit, others will quickly move to match it. This means that it’s hard to justify the hard work of creating something better, because it’s just going to become a new standard. It doesn’t pay for a credit card company to invest in customer service, the thinking goes, because that won’t pay for itself, it’ll just raise costs for the leader and for all of its competitors.