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Making Our Own Beds

Every time you borrow from the future, you’re setting back your future self.

We’re given a choice everyday: borrow from our future or invest in our future.

Free Will

It’s up to me to do what I’m called to do. But the results are not up to me.

Keep talking about your vision of our health care.

What does the future look like?

Us

According to Gallup, 32% of employees within organizations are engaged, while 17% are actively disengaged.

What about the massive 51% missed opportunity?

Fire ants are the definition of resilience in nature. Whereas a solitary ant is taken down by a watered tunnel, its colony surfs rogue waves. It’s incredible to see this! Interestingly, their resilience is not the function of a single organizational leader but decentralized collective action. Somehow, they all vote themselves to do the work that matters.

A single thread connects us all. All. Noticing that thread and pursing it with linked arms yields regeneration and resilience—the opposite of extraction. The approaching era in health care is an era of divine relationship. Not in the factional sense, but in a constructive sense.

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.