Month: September 2012

Authors: Various Publisher” Harvard Business Review Press Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Orienting medical care around patients’ needs raises the quality, efficiency and value of such care, asserts Thomas Lee, a doctor who has authored the first article Turning Doctors into Leaders in this book on fixing what ails health care in America. Usually because several specialists are involved in caring for a patient in a hospital, all of  them should be communicating with one another with their primary goal of making that patient better, Lee says. But too often, they’re not talking to each other and the patient...

Authors: Various Publisher” Harvard Business Review Press Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Even businesses that have had long records of success reach a point where revenues stop with the upward spike, taper off and even start a downward slope, point out Paul Nunes and Tim Breene in Reinvent Your Business Before It’s Too Late, an excellent article in this book containing a series of insights on how to rebuild your business model when it is no longer working as well as it once was. They emphasize the imperative of periodic reinvention for a company to thrive for a long...