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Excerpt: "The potential effects of health information computerization on the workplace are numerous. Employers may obtain and process EHRs for purposes of fitness for duty determinations, reasonable accommodations, workers' compensation, and payment of medical claims. Digitized records could enable employers to obtain unprecedented amounts of information in response to lawful requests and thus intensify workers' concerns...  Read more...

Excerpt: "The potential effects of health information computerization on the workplace are numerous. Employers may obtain and process EHRs for purposes of fitness for duty determinations, reasonable accommodations, workers' compensation, and payment of medical claims. Digitized records could enable employers to obtain unprecedented amounts of information in response to lawful requests and thus intensify workers' concerns...

Humana and MassMutual both released iPhone games last week to build affinity for their brands among consumers.  Read more...

Humana and MassMutual both released iPhone games last week to build affinity for their brands among consumers.

Big Breach at Anthem Blue Cross Insurance Networking News Anthem Blue Cross , the trade name for Blue Cross of California, is notifying about 230000 members and applicants for insurance that a Web site used to apply ... Anthem Blue Cross Suffers Another Security Breach IT Business Edge (blog) ...  Read more...

Big Breach at Anthem Blue Cross Insurance Networking News Anthem Blue Cross , the trade name for Blue Cross of California, is notifying about 230000 members and applicants for insurance that a Web site used to apply ... Anthem Blue Cross Suffers Another Security Breach IT Business Edge (blog) ...

I've been writing lately about violence in the hospital, and how hospitals should adopt a proactive, preventative zero tolerance towards assaults against employees.  Read more...

I've been writing lately about violence in the hospital, and how hospitals should adopt a proactive, preventative zero tolerance towards assaults against employees.

the picture is gloomy. PPACA includes four main categories of pilot and demonstration projects: bundling, accountable care organizations, pay-for-performance, and coordinated care. Of these, only some aspects of pay-for-performance avoid the problems of   Read more...

the picture is gloomy. PPACA includes four main categories of pilot and demonstration projects: bundling, accountable care organizations, pay-for-performance, and coordinated care. Of these, only some aspects of pay-for-performance avoid the problems of

By Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd There are five leadership areas that seem to be emerging as requirements for the leader of the future. The process starts with selecting leaders who have demonstrated a collaborative mind-set and who …  Read more...

By Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd

There are five leadership areas that seem to be emerging as requirements for the leader of the future.

The process starts with selecting leaders who have demonstrated a collaborative mind-set and who work comfortably in a networked leadership.

Second, we focus on leaders who see the development of people as one of their most important goals, including providing honest feedback, career guidance, and learning opportunities.

Third, the leader of the future will need to be digitally confident and able to speak the digital language of the newest generation of workers.

The fourth facet of the 2020 leader is being a global citizen, in the broadest sense. This means being not only a leader who can work well across cultures but also one who realizes the value of working with governments and nongovernmental organizations in the intertwined dependencies of the future.

Finally, anticipating the future and building the capability to address it are the fifth capability area required for the 2020 leader. As professor and management expert Gary Hamel says, “There’s little that can be said with certainty about the future except this: sometime over the next decade your company will be challenged to change in a way for which it has no precedent.”

Bringing the disciplines of leadership and management together into an integrated model will require a reevaluation of how we develop leaders. In the 1990s and into the 21st century, a

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I was just interviewed for a podcast by HBR's Sarah Green about my post on the Strategic Use of Swearing, which was inspired by HBR editor Dan McGinn's great post on Should Leaders Ever Swear? To prepare for this little...  Read more...

I was just interviewed for a podcast by HBR's Sarah Green about my post on the Strategic Use of Swearing, which was inspired by HBR editor Dan McGinn's great post on Should Leaders Ever Swear?  To prepare for this little interview, I read an article by Timothy Jay published in 2009 (volume 4, number 2, p. 153-161)) in Perspectives on Psychological Science that is called "The Utility and Ubiquity of Taboo Words."  This article reviews all sorts of research and theory on "swear words" (which is uses interchangeably with "taboo words), but there were a few sentences that I found especially striking for understanding the functions of swear words:

From an evolutionary standpoint, swearing is a unique human behavior that was developed for a purpose.  Taboo words persist because they can intensify emotional communication to a degree that nontaboo words cannot (Jay & Janschewitz, 2007; Potts, 2007).  Fuck you! immediately conveys a level of contempt unparalleled by nontaboo words; there is no way to convey Fuck You! with polite speech.  p. 155.

Do you love this as much as I do?  Or does something bug you about this? I found it most compelling. But it still may not find enough justification for leaders to swear. 

Two other gems from this article:

1. I was also interested, but not

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... Capti, Commonwealth Fund, Commonwealth States, Efficiency, Health Care Costs, Healthcare Costs, Industrialized Countries, Netherlands, New Zealand, Productive Lives, Syndication, United Healthcare , United Kingdom, United States ...