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...properly aligned, its parts move in sync to achieve results. There is a straight line of sight that goes from the organization's strategy to its customers. Scarce human, financial and capital resources are deployed along that line of sight, so value gets created and added quickly, consistently and cost effectively. This makes the aligned organization fiercely competitive and an ultimate high-performance entity. And you cannot have an aligned organization without aligned teams. For an organization to raise its level of performance, every team, on every level, must be a great team. That is to say, it must...
...figures bear that out. The four biggest killers in Tehran today are road accidents, estimated to cost 28,000 lives every year; cardiovascular diseases tied to Tehran's polluted air and the high rate of smoking among men; depression; and drug addiction. "More than 70% of factors that affect health are social," says Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Golmakani, a municipality health adviser who is looking at the social determinants of disease...
...measure the destruction in Gaza by the number of bombs dropped or buildings flattened or the price to rebuild it all, but the real cost lies within people like Abed Rabu, whose pain and sense of loss are apparent from the moment you meet him. Two weeks after the end of Israel's 22-day operation against Hamas militants, the battle to control the story of what happened in Gaza continues. The U.N. and human-rights groups accuse the Israeli military of using disproportionate force and even of committing war crimes. The Israeli government has responded to such charges...
...decade ending 2006, Yale achieved annualized endowment returns of 17.2 percent, beating Harvard’s return of 15.2 percent—a figure that the alums have cited in arguing that high returns can be achieved without high salaries and that external managers may be more cost-efficient...
...wanted to use taxpayer money that was supposed to create jobs to instead "fund the abortion industry" and pass out contraceptives. The Republicans were caught off guard when Obama called their bluff and asked congressional Democrats to remove the provision - and fell back to complaining about the bill's cost and the insufficient size of tax cuts. But then it was liberals' turn to be up in arms over Obama's "betrayal," with some bloggers and pundits accusing the President of "throwing low-income women under the bus" in a pointless effort to woo Republicans who ultimately weren't going...