Category: Leadership Strategy

Workplace Culture: Let’s Take This Opportunity To Make Lasting Changes

There has never, in recent memory, been a more meaningful opportunity to address workplace inequalities. To examine why we pretend that men pretending to be ‘ok’ is ok at all. To re-examine gender stereotypes at work and home. To redesign our well-bein…

Mental Health Issues Skyrocket As Pandemic Wears On

The CARE humanitarian organization recently issued a report focusing on women’s mental health, reporting that women were nearly three times more likely than men (27% vs. 10%) to report their mental health had been impacted by the pandemic

How Data From Wearables Will Revolutionize Healthcare

As technology continues to create boundless new possibilities, the future of medicine will increasingly be about monitoring, data abundance, algorithms and prevention. The sooner we embrace this, the better.

Can Healthcare Leaders Help Us Reclaim Our Humanity?

Whatever industry you’re in, if you don’t find a way to tie the core of your business back to the humanity of every individual person you employ or serve, then you and your business are in trouble.

The Happy Talk About Covid-19 Vaccines And Herd Immunity Is Deadly

We need to eradicate the damaging and deadly happy talk that, somehow, the pandemic will be end when a vaccine is approved.

As We Rethink Major Aspects Of Society – What Can We Learn From Healthcare?

Healthcare has been in the process of changing its culture and its business model for years. Leaders have had to consider how to combine the efficiencies and quality of standardization with the understanding that every person is different and health is…

The Hidden Links Between Mindfulness And Happier Employees

Headspace president and COO CeCe Morken is having a moment, as her firm’s meditation app is a hit with companies. Here’s a quick check-in on the biggest mental health experiment we’ve ever seen.

How Coronavirus Is Helping Drive The Digitalization Of Healthcare

The combination of better and cheaper sensors, machine learning and telemedicine through advanced communications services will take healthcare to the next stage, and hopefully leave behind the era when we weren’t able to treat illnesses until it was of…

Why Saving The Economy Or Tackling The Pandemic Is A False Dilemma

On the one hand, biology: the clinical effects a virus has on our body, how it spreads, the deaths it causes, or our capacity to generate vaccines. On the other, the economy: a human construct that can be brought under control, stopped when necessary, …

In Spain, As Everywhere, The Question Is Whether Schools Can Reopen Safely. I Have Grave Doubts.

Over the next couple of weeks, as happens every year at this time, Spain will begin the return to academic activity. The problem is that this is a far-from normal year: let’s be honest, it’s been a deeply abnormal year; and nor is my country behaving l…