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		<title>Lean in Nursing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ensuring value added care delivery processes is critical in today’s tough economic climate.  While many organizations have made changes to nursing roles, staffing and work environments, these changes are complex and challenging to implement.  Recently in healthcare management engineering approaches such as Lean and Six Sigma have been found to be very effective in introducing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clarendonleadership.com/2009/01/21/lean-in-nursing/</link>
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		<title>Team Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[High performing teams are essential in managing the complexity and challenges of healthcare today. According to Lenconi, there are five behavioural patterns that undermine leadership teams and cause them to fail. They include absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention to results. 
Members of cohesive teams on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clarendonleadership.com/2008/11/23/team-development/</link>
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		<title>Insights on Benchmarking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many organizations are undergoing benchmarking as a means to identify opportunities for efficiencies and cost savings.  The fact is there is tremendous interest and stakes in knowing how our organization compares to others.  Consultants respond by delivering products that the market desires – remember that.  Benchmarking is a tool – that is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clarendonleadership.com/2008/11/23/insights-on-benchmarking/</link>
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		<title>Centralization vs Decentralization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a fan of complex adaptive system theory, I was intrigued by the discussion of centralization versus decentralization in recent book &#8220;The Wisdom of Crowds&#8221;, by Jim Surowiecki. Jim points out that in the past 15 years, increasing attention has been given to self-organizing and decentralized systems &#8211; systems without central control that connect, adapt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clarendonleadership.com/2008/11/21/centralization-vs-decentralization/</link>
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		<title>Talent Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forward thinking organizations are elevating the human resource perspective to one of vital strategic importance, focusing on identifying needed talent and developing systems and structures to attract and maintain it. Recruitment strategies are evolving from short-term fixes to longer-term talent management ones including  :
- Designing and implementing formal recruitment and retention strategies;
- Using data [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://clarendonleadership.com/2008/11/21/talent-management/</link>
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