Momento Mori

‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I’m about to do today?’ -Steve Jobs

Ticket to the Future

Care to invite them in.

It doesn’t have to be at your meeting. Maybe you can show up at theirs. Or show up wherever they are.

Every human is a lottery ticket on a fundamental breakthrough that might completely change how we think it.

Missing Piece

We’ve figured out how to manufacture vaccines against cancer and get a diagnosis from a doctor who is 50 miles away.

In the US, we’re long on genius, but short on empathy.

Discovery

In North Korea, humanity is trapped in a local minimum which is difficult to climb out of. The entire society is suppressed so as not to be able to improve. They’ve lost their biggest discovery, which was the ability to make new discoveries.

Those of us in healthcare are also eager to break the mold, but we have all been raised to behave alike. Whether you call it obedience or not, it’s not creativity.

In a time when creativity, clarity, and risk-taking is asked of us.

Convenient Hunch

The real test of an asset is not social. It’s not even definitional. It’s how it behaves in the market. It’s how it corresponds to reality.

If only ad boards and their readouts could offer the clarity that we seek.

Nothing. Can replace heart-to-heart interactions.

Who is the face of your organization for your customers?

Fear Is the Beginning of Wisdom

Provider organizations are reacting to Amazon’s purchase of One Medical.

“We need to push ourselves to do the same work: work to provide the most seamless, personalized, and convenient experiences possible, that are also still deeply caring and compassionate.”

“As an industry we must embrace alternative payment models, figuring out how to do more with less, and providing even better multimodal care than we traditionally have been.”

“…another proof point that the way we have always delivered and reimbursed for care isn’t going to be the way that we will do it in the future.”

I sense their urgency this time.

Get It Right…Right Away

If it’s a speech, it better be short.

TED Talks, all 18 minutes or shorter, are some of the most spellbinding speeches in the world. They deliver one Big Thought that’s been refined by countless retelling.

Brevity is a secret sauce: say what you have to say and get out of the way.

In the Way

Have you noticed a waxing crescent? Where’s the rest of the moon?

Who is covering the rest of it?

None other than…us. Who knew?!

Thank You

Saying ‘thank you’ is more than a polite affect.

It’s not even for the receiving person.

Having gratitude builds me.

First Is In Our Blood

Being the first means expecting shame, ridicule, and resistance.

Brave firsts are also generous and optimistic: even if they can’t live that reality, their descendants will.

Our country celebrates firsts.

On President’s Day we remember a Founding Father, our first president.