“We have always done it this way.” Forbes Magazine described this as the most dangerous phrase in business. This phrase signals to the team the unwillingness to innovate through change, trial, error, or learning. Whether this phrase is said as a way to hide personal incompetence, to hide indifference, or to impart control, “we haveContinue reading “Tradition vs Innovation, still reacting….”
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Tradition vs Innovation, a reaction
“Organizations that identify and address pervasive mindsets at the outset are
four times more likely to succeed in organizational-change efforts than are companies that overlook this stage.”
-Nate Boaz and Erica Ariel Fox, “Change Leader, Change Thyself,” McKinsey Quarterly, March 2014
Tradition vs Innovation
“We have always done it this way.” Forbes Magazine described this as the most dangerous phrase in business. This phrase signals to the team the unwillingness to innovate through change, trial, error, or learning. Whether this phrase is said as a way to hide personal incompetence, to hide indifference, or to impart control, “we haveContinue reading “Tradition vs Innovation”
National Health Awareness: April 2022
I am cautiously optimistic that the COVID-19 numbers are staying down in our region. The worldwide data suggest a small uptick and a hybrid variant in the UK appears to be having a slower uptrend (variant was detected in my city the week of 24MAR). We will see what next month brings, but I amContinue reading “National Health Awareness: April 2022”
Lifelong Learning
Half of what we learn in medical school is factual, the other half will be proven to be outdated or false. The difficult part is recognizing which half is correct. Even more interesting is the path of discovering which half is correct over a lifetime. Lifelong learning. In modern medicine, evidence emerges daily that challengeContinue reading “Lifelong Learning”