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a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause
one expected outcome of hard work is greater success
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The best way to overcome this skepticism is to speak their language and tie coaching outcomes to measurable business metrics like team productivity, retention rates and innovation cycles.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
This precise resource allocation reduces compute usage, cooling requirements and costs—all without sacrificing business outcomes.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
The models largely haven’t improved patient outcomes.
—Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
However, analyzing these cuts reveals little evidence that such reductions will improve health outcomes.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Local Responsibility—a Larger Role for States and Communities With the federal government scaling back its role in public health, responsibility for improving health outcomes will increasingly fall on states and localities.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
But the outcomes couldn’t have been more disparate, with the Hawks losing 5-0 Tuesday.
—Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2025
Transform Through Results Identify where AI can help your employees achieve better outcomes.
—Adam Bujak, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
The state of Connecticut is changing the way that doctors get paid for providing maternity care to low-income people covered by HUSKY Health (Connecticut’s Medicaid program) that is meant to improve health outcomes and health equity in Connecticut.
—Mark Schaefer, Hartford Courant, 5 Mar. 2025
Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
This precise resource allocation reduces compute usage, cooling requirements and costs—all without sacrificing business outcomes.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
The models largely haven’t improved patient outcomes.
—Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
However, analyzing these cuts reveals little evidence that such reductions will improve health outcomes.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Local Responsibility—a Larger Role for States and Communities With the federal government scaling back its role in public health, responsibility for improving health outcomes will increasingly fall on states and localities.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
But the outcomes couldn’t have been more disparate, with the Hawks losing 5-0 Tuesday.
—Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2025
Transform Through Results Identify where AI can help your employees achieve better outcomes.
—Adam Bujak, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
The state of Connecticut is changing the way that doctors get paid for providing maternity care to low-income people covered by HUSKY Health (Connecticut’s Medicaid program) that is meant to improve health outcomes and health equity in Connecticut.
—Mark Schaefer, Hartford Courant, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Outcomes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outcomes. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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