A comprehensive unit-based safety program combining staff education, identification of and learning from deficiencies, assignment of a hospital executive to adopt the unit, and implementation of teamwork tools are essential to all general safety programs.
Among Congress's earlier criminal statutes were: The renewal of the Northwest Ordinance, which authorized the executive to adopt state law within the Northwest Territory; and A prohibition on unloading ships in the dark or without a license, as well as customs bribery and false statements; and A prohibition on census takers failing to report their findings.
BUILDING BETTER TEAMS To get the most out of a diverse team — one that works across boundaries, functions and geographies — executives need to adopt some "counterintuitive management practices," an article in MIT Sloan Management Review argues.
DON'T TRUST IDEAS BORN IN A BOOM -- When capital is cheap and everyone is looking for a quick score, investors and executives tend to adopt strategies built on the notion that they will succeed because everything else is succeeding.
Gosh, do we need to throw $250 billion at the banks to persuade executives not to adopt incentive schemes that threaten their own institutions?
The inquiry hinged on the question of whether publishers, at the urging of Steven P. Jobs, then Apple's chief executive, agreed to adopt a new policy in 2010 that in essence coordinated the price of newly released e-books at the price offered in Apple's iBookstore - typically between $12.99 and $14.99.
Better yet, though, the Court should take the occasion to say that a mere letter, whatever its content, does not merit judicial deference, precisely because it bypasses the process of public input that we should want the executive branch to adopt in forming views on important policies.
Obama can still use his executive powers to adopt rules that will help improve the lives of most Americans even in the face of Tuesday's election results.
