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Blogging on the Contrarian Edge...

Several new entries now appear in our list of Rants: In "Are You a Hospital Knight?"...
The reason for renewal in organizations is that they underperform. Layer on layer of past decisions and ways of doing things mires down good performers, delays action, and ultimately kills motivation.  Managers become prisoners of the status quo, one leader saying that getting a decision made at his hospital was like “trying to swim in peanut butter.” (more)