Leadership
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Truth Tellers: Let’s Do This!
Let’s Do This! Hello Truth Tellers, Please know that I’ve been thinking about all of you a lot recently. With all the anxiety and stress caused by the current pandemic, we need each other now more than ever. I know that social distancing has taken its toll on me, and I’m sure it’s had an…
Read MoreTruthTellers: WHO WILL BE IN ROOM 716?
WHO WILL BE IN ROOM 716? Thursday, March 19th, 2020, will be a day I’ll never forget. My team and I landed in Southern California in the midst of the most widespread pandemic our world has faced in my lifetime. After we arrived at our (not small) hotel, we discovered that our group of four…
Read MoreTruth Tellers: Reloaded
Neo: “Why am I here?” The Architect: “Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix.” -The Matrix Reloaded Even if we don’t realize it, too many of us live a life of answering to others. The pressure to please other people never stops and…
Read MoreTruth Tellers: Wonderland
This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill- the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill- you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” -Morpheus, The Matrix Have…
Read MoreTeachers are Ready to Innovate. What will enable them to do it? Empathy.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Here are 5 ways you can foster innovation by showing empathy to educators in your life: As the first bell rings for the new school year and students file into classrooms, teachers are expected to stand ready and energized to take on the new school year. While most teachers are happy to start their…
Read MoreBringing Dignity Through Design
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A clean shave is something many of us don’t think about. But for the nearly 44 million Americans with disabilities and their caregivers, shaving can seem like an insurmountable task. The ability to have a clean shave can provide a person with disabilities the basic sense of dignity, however, most razors are designed to be…
Read MoreHow Nurses Pave the Way in Healthcare Innovation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The number of US-employed registered nurses is four times that of doctors, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nurses spend the majority of their days interacting with patients, so, they see directly what processes already work and what’s failing in a healthcare facility – especially with patient outcomes. Since they’re in the front…
Read MoreStop What You’re Doing And Watch This: Pick of the Litter
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Everyone loves puppies (or they should). So stop what you’re doing and watch this cuddly and cute documentary available on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime, which follows a litter of labrador retriever puppies and their training for becoming service dogs who guide the blind. Is the competition to be a guide dog as cutthroat as…
Read MoreCaring About Someone Versus Caring for Someone
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It’s an all-too-common tale in our industry: We provide care for our patients. But we stop caring about them. Instead of treating them like vulnerable individuals with thoughts and feelings, we start seeing them as numbers and quotas. It’s time to change this trend and to start treating our patients with a softer touch. Not…
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