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3 Fintech News Stories #1: Klarna Plus What happened? Klarna is introducing a subscription service: Swedish fintech firm Klarna is launching a monthly subscription plan in the U.S. to lock in its heaviest users ahead of an expected initial public offering this year, the company told CNBC. The product is set to be announced later…
Read MoreWhat do employees expect from their HR team?
I’ve met employees that have incredibly high expectations for HR and others that have zero expectations and just hope their current HR isn’t as toxic as their last one. The average employee is probably somewhere in the middle. What do employees want from HR? Let me count the ways… There’s probably 10-20 more things I…
Read MoreSave Me From the Subscription Economy!
Let’s start with this 2022 headline from The Verge, which caused my nervous system to temporarily fritz out when I first read it: If there’s a dark side to the trend, most memorably observed by Marc Andreessen, of software eating the world, it’s this. In 2020, BMW introduced a new version of its operating system…
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Bonjour Millionaire, Happy Thursday. Actually, speaking of which, I once told my boss (previous boss I should say), ‘Happy Thursday!’ I remember this VIVIDLY because he then told me that he read somewhere that saying Happy Thursday (or Tuesday, or Wednesday, or Friday) indicates that you don’t like your job and you’re wishing the days…
Read MoreThe New, NEW Utilization Normal: Why the Pendulum is Swinging back to Providers in 2024
Patient volumes are BACK in a big way in 2024.
It’s an ongoing trend extending back to the second quarter of 2023. And everyone is watching, waiting, to see how volumes play out.
So, what happened in 2023? In what areas is volume returning? Finally, what are the downstream implications of this ‘New’ New post-post-Covid Utilization Normal ™ on payors, providers, and risk-bearing organizations?
Read More📓 command clash: navigating nuanced communication
✍🏽 How do you handle seemingly contradictory directives from a superior? A supervisor and a manager meet regularly to coordinate activities, draft documents, etc. and the director complains that they meet too often and that their communication needs to be improved. Both are now walking on eggshells as they feel “big brother” is watching. Context:…
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