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White Papers You Can Actually Use
Financial Opportunities of Human Resource Outsourcing
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There are many challenges to running a business. However, the up side, the one you value most, is that you get to be in charge. The product is your brainchild. How and when it hits the market is also up to you. Whom you hire is also your decision. You have just enough resources to hire the best and the brightest, provided you contain your operating expenses.
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Eight Business Technology Trends to Watch
Eight emerging trends are transforming many markets and businesses. Executives should learn to shape the outcome rather than just react to it.
Technology alone is rarely the key to unlocking economic value: companies create real wealth when they combine technology with new ways of doing business. Through our work and research, we have identified eight technology-enabled trends that will help shape businesses and the economy in coming years. These trends fall within three broad areas of business activity: managing relationships, managing capital and assets, and leveraging information in new ways.
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Senior Level Connections
Looking to
get Better Connected?
The Executive Council helps you create transactions with new prospects and deepens relationships with current clients. Our sole mission is to help you get better connected and promote you as a business leader. We take this mission seriously.
No secret handshakes, no funky hats. Our events are all about creating a private setting for you to meet the right people and advance your business.
Find out why more than 3,500 executives have chosen the Executive Council as their networking platform. Think of us as an offline social network, you know, good ol’ face to face.
Membership for your entire executive team starts as low as $1,800 per year. Contact Bob Johnston for more info or visit our Member Benefits page
The Executive Council is a powerful marketing
and sales channel that provides you with access and exposure
to new clients and partners. You can network anywhere.
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Executive Council Events:
Healthcare Reform 2008 –- Evolution
or Revolution?
Proskauer Rose, IBM and the Executive Council cordially
invite you to attend our annual Healthcare Forum taking
place on Tuesday, February 12, 2007 at the Harvard Club
of New York.
It now appears certain that healthcare reform will be high on the political agenda next year. The upcoming Presidential elections promise to focus public and business leaders’ attention on proposals to heal our ailing healthcare system. This requires more than force of will or mere innovation. Everyone would agree that the current system is unsustainable. What is the best way to change the system? Full market-based? Governmental-run system?
For New York, the stakes could not be higher. At this private forum, you will get answers to key issues:
 How much can we rely on Marketplace Forces?
What to do about Universal Coverage, Rising Health Care Costs, Gaps in Quality of Care?
What impact could reform have on our large academic health centers and medical schools? The Life Sciences Community? Small Businesses? Wall Street?
What Role should State and Federal Government Play in addressing these Problems?
How could Reform Impact State and City Medicaid and other health expenditures?
Speakers include:
RONALD DAVIS, M.D., President, American Medical Association (AMA)
NANCY-ANN DEPARLE, Managing Director,
CCMP and former head, HCFA
MARK WAGAR, President and CEO, Empire
BlueCross BlueShield and President, General Manager New
York Market, WellPoint Inc.
RUBEN KING-SHAW, Founding Partner PARMA, and former Deputy Administrator & COO, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under President Bush
CATHY SCHOEN, Senior Vice President,
The Commonwealth Fund
PAMELA BRIER, President and CEO, Maimonides Medical Center
JIM ADAMS, Executive Director, Center
for Healthcare Management, IBM
Moderated by:
SCOTT HENSLEY, Healthcare Editor, Wall Street Journal
Conference Chair
RICHARD J. ZALL, Esq., Partner, Proskauer Rose, LLP
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Also happening
Upcoming Member and Partner Events
The Deal's 2008 Distressed Investing Conference,
Jan 23-25,
Wynn Las Vegas, Las Vegas
The second annual Distressed Investing Conference, a partnership between The Deal and Turnaround Management Association, recognizes the vital link between corporate restructuring professionals and corporate and financial dealmakers. Nearly 450 professionals attended the inaugural conference last year to exchange ideas and hear the latest trends on distressed investing from experts in the field and, this year, we offer the same opportunity for key players in the distressed investing arena to meet, exchange ideas and embark on profitable relationships.
Click here for more information.
AlwaysOn-
OnMedia NYC
Jan 28-30, Mandarin Oriental Hotel NY
OnMedia NYC is where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the global advertising and media establishment. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries. At OnMedia, our editors will also honor the OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies. Fifty of the top CEOs from the OnMedia 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our “CEO Showcase.”
Executive Council members can click here and use the code OMvip (caps sensitive) to take advantage of the 33%-off ticket rate.
Meet, Rebecca Fannin, Author of Silicon Dragon - How China is Winning the Tech Race, Jan 28th 6PM, Club Quarters,
This revealing inside report takes you straight
to the frontlines of China's technological revolution.
Fannin warns us not to be surprised if the next Steve
Jobs comes from China where there has been an explosion
of bold new technologies and big money- the country is
like a virtual Silicon Valley at the height of the dot.com
boom. China has become the most serious challenger to
the U.S. in the field of tech innovation and as a result
a fertile ground for investment.
OPC member Rebecca Fannin is international editor of the Hong Kong financial weekly Asian Venture Capital Journal and a contributor to Inc., Worth, The Deal and Fast Company. She traveled extensively in China to interview entrepreneurs and techies.
Please contact Sonia Fry at 212.626.9220 or sonya@opcofamerica.org to RSVP.
New
York Cares - Summer of Service Information Breakfast
Feb 7th, The Yale Club
We invite you to join your colleagues from New York City’s leading corporations and law firms for an informative breakfast about New York Cares’ Summer of Service Program- a unique initiative which engages employees, summer associates, and interns in meaningful volunteer service.
Space is limited. Please R.S.V.P. to Stephanie Hacker, 212-402-1161 or Stephanie_hacker@nycares.org by Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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Johnston/On
Peak Performers
I have a theory. And it goes something like this – the harder you work, the less productive you are. There is a difference between efficiency and effectiveness. One can work at a highly efficient pace, but is s/he being effective? Effectiveness gets us closer to our goals; efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not). Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is often status quo. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. Further, requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
I informally polled some of the top executives and entrepreneurs in the city and here are some peak performance traits that allow them to be highly effective. You can implement these immediately:
Delete things from your life that are time wasters. This includes non-effective work tasks that others can do and tasks that make you feel efficient, but are actually not effective.
Put processes in place that automate and funnel tasks. Delegate items such as managing your calendar and your personal contact database to your assistant. If you don’t have one, check out the many outsourcing firms that specialize in this area. Create a list at the beginning of each day with your two most important and effective goals to accomplish. Don’t let anyone get in your way, i.e. No distractions.
there’s a reason why well-run team meetings can be effective. It allows a manager to put all key issues on the table once weekly, and then prioritize and delegate. This is the idea of batching – doing something one time each week (or month) that allows you to prioritize and delegate, thus freeing up your time to take on your goals. Do the same thing with other aspects of your work life. Batch items such as phone calls and checking your LinkedIn or Facebook accounts ONCE WEEKLY. Don’t log on 30 times per week. It’s a time waster. Is something so important that it deserves to distract you from your most important goals? Same goes for email. Decide a time, each day, that you will reply to e-mails and stick to your promise. Don’t pick up the BlackBerry at other times. Have you noticed that the people you want to reach most are often not reachable by email? There’s a reason for this. They’ve realized that email is a time waster, unless batched on a clear schedule.
Practice reducing external information sources that are time wasters. This mainly involves flushing your mind of busy noise, such as watching TV news to start and end your day, checking online information sources constantly, and taking calls from people with non-specific requests. Ask them to come back to you with a specific request and how you can best be of help. Tell them to put it in writing, in email, and reply at a time that works for you.
• Filling every minute of every day is fool’s game. Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
• Results by volume is not effective.
• Effective results, not dedication, is what we want to measure.
• Choose an effective goal and work towards it.
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