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The Paradox of Innovation from 30,000 Feet
Blogging Innovation | December 21st 2009 by Braden Kelley
It's About the Journey, Not the Destinationby Robert F. BrandsIn the C-suites of corporate America, innovation has become a mandate. Executives - from CEOs to marketing officers - believe that to innovate is to embrace the Holy Grail of 21st Century read more
Does your Innovation have a story?
Blogging Innovation | November 16th 2009 by Braden Kelley
by Jeffrey PhillipsImagine if you will, somewhere in the distant recesses of our existence, a group of cavemen huddled around a fire. The wiseman of the group gathers the tribe around the fire and regales them with stories of their ancestors - how th read more
Beyond Bingo: Meaningful Activities for Persons with Dementia in…
Activities Director | November 15th 2009 by Susan Berg
Activities directors, caregivers, and healthcare professionals,here is some great informationHere is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can beHere are more intere read more
Beyond Bingo: Meaningful Activities for Persons with Dementia in…
Activities Director | November 14th 2009 by Susan Berg
Activities directors, caregivers, and healthcare professionals,here is some great informationHere is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can beHere are more intere read more
Beyond Bingo: Meaningful Activities for Persons with Dementia in…
Activities Director | November 13th 2009 by Susan Berg
Activities directors, caregivers, and healthcare professionals,here is some great informationHere is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can beHere are more intere read more
Beyond Bingo: Meaningful Activities for Persons with Dementia in…
Activities Director | November 12th 2009 by Susan Berg
Activities directors, caregivers, and healthcare professionals,here is some great informationHere is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can beHere are more intere read more
Why Culture Change Is Not Understood – With A Short Guide To Gr…
Prospero's Blog | November 12th 2009
The recent past has forced many organisations to confront a painful truth. There was something amiss in their culture which meant either they didn’t see the problems coming as the clouds of recession gathered and/or their culture is inhibiting thei read more
Beyond Bingo: Meaningful Activities for Persons with Dementia in…
Activities Director | November 11th 2009 by Susan Berg
Activities directors, caregivers, and healthcare professionals,here is some great informationHere is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can beHere are more intere read more
Beyond Bingo: Meaningful Activities for Persons with Dementia in…
Activities Director | November 10th 2009 by Susan Berg
Activities directors, caregivers, and healthcare professionals,here is some great informationHere is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can beHere are more intere read more
Beyond Bingo: Meaningful Activities for Persons with Dementia in…
Activities Director | November 9th 2009 by Susan Berg
Activities directors, caregivers, and healthcare professionals,here is some great informationHere is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can beHere are more intere read more
Controlling Innovation
Blogging Innovation | November 9th 2009 by Braden Kelley
by Jeffrey PhillipsI guess I'll never fully understand the depth of concern that many management teams have around command and control, especially in an era of constant change. It seems that the more demands are placed on an organization to create ne read more
Beyond Bingo: Meaningful Activities for Persons with Dementia in…
Activities Director | November 8th 2009 by Susan Berg
Activities directors, caregivers, and healthcare professionals,here is some great informationHere is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can beHere are more intere read more
Beyond Bingo: Meaningful Activities for Persons with Dementia in…
Activities Director | November 7th 2009 by Susan Berg
Activities directors, caregivers, and healthcare professionals,here is some great informationHere is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can beHere are more intere read more
Developing an Innovation Culture (the TBX approach)
Blogging Innovation | October 29th 2009 by Braden Kelley
by Stefan LindegaardHaving been involved in several efforts on developing the innovation culture within companies, I have learned that you need to work with three organizational approaches.I call this the TBX approach:T (Top Down)Get the executives o read more
Announcing the 2010 New Culture of Aging Services Webcast
Changing Aging | October 26th 2009 by Dr. Bill Thomas
Did you ever wish that Dr. Thomas could be a regular part of your team? Now he can be in your building twice a month twelve months running. There is an immediate and pressing need for education around the issue of culture transformation in aging ser read more
What I (nearly) said at Government 2010
Mission Creep | Neil Williams | October 25th 2009 by Neil Williams
As trailed, here come the notes of my contribution to the discussion about e-consultation at Government 2010 last Thursday. The session’s title was “Digital engagement is everyone’s job: formal and informal consultation online̶ read more
A Surrender of Choice
Scattered Word Pictures | October 20th 2009 by AngelaMichelle
The other night I was fortunate to catch “National Geographis Presents Tribal Secrets: The Wodaabe“. The Wodaabe, also known the Bororo, are a nomadic group of cattle-herders who “live” along the outer edges of the western S read more
Why live in the Philippines?
Tropicalpenpals.com | October 18th 2009 by Matt Wilkie
If you take it from a commercial prospectus there are a lot of downsides. Even for those living on a pension the truth of the matter life can be pretty hard and grim if you fall out of favour or hit ill health for example. If you have no ties to the read more
Boomers As Transformers – The Pig in the Python!
MyIncomeAutopilotBlog.com | October 16th 2009
The Pig in the Python For decades, those Americans born shortly after WWII have been labeled “Baby Boomers”. According to the U.S. Census, a Baby Boomer is “someone born during the demographic birth boom between 1946 and 1964″ read more
Principles to Advance Person-Centered Care
Who Moved My Dentures? Musings on aging and health care | October 9th 2009 by Anthony Cirillo
View and read our guest blog in Long Term Living Magazine. read more
Nursing Home as Battle Zone
Who Moved My Dentures? Musings on aging and health care | October 8th 2009 by Anthony Cirillo
This article puts in context the "battle" we face in balancing the needs of residents, caregivers, family and staff in moving long-term facilities from institutionalized warehouses to the best possible home they can be for residents. There is a long read more
Let's Commit to these Principles to Advance Person-Centered Care
Who Moved My Dentures? Musings on aging and health care | October 2nd 2009 by Anthony Cirillo
Recent Harvard articles have been consistent in their insistence that a different mode of leadership will be required in all businesses going forward. Business as usual got us into the predicament we are in so we can't simply go back to it when the e read more
Having a Point of View versus Standing Up for Something You Belie…
Who Moved My Dentures? Musings on aging and health care | September 30th 2009 by Anthony Cirillo
Guest video blog in Long Term Living Magazine. read more
Special Focus Facilities - add more to the list says GAO
Who Moved My Dentures? Musings on aging and health care | September 29th 2009 by Anthony Cirillo
The government’s Special Focus Facility (SFF) program should add 450 nursing homes according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GOA). The GAO wants to include 580 of the poorest performing facilities na read more
Having a Point of View versus Standing Up for Something You Belie…
Who Moved My Dentures? Musings on aging and health care | September 18th 2009 by Anthony Cirillo
I had an engaging conversation with Kellyann Curnayn, author of A Good Day in Hell: The Flatlining of Nurses Across America. She is a dedicated, practicing nurse. She told me that nurses do not get paid to take care of patients. They get paid to fill read more
In 30 years a lot can change - for the good
Zestos: Enabling life through communication of research | September 13th 2009 by David Whyte
Slowly working through the local video store obtaining the education I never got as a kid (and I am rather grateful that I didn't!). Anyway under the B section of the action series (I am working in a slight random but systematic way) . Got out Breake read more
Guest Blog in Long-Term Living Magazine - Leadership Must Change…
Who Moved My Dentures? Musings on aging and health care | September 11th 2009 by Anthony Cirillo
Our post from yesterday is now featured in Long Term Living Magazine's blog entries. Leadership must change their ways or the experience for patients and residents and staff will not change. Interestingly today I had a wonderful conversation w read more
Leadership Must Change if Person / Patient Centered to take Root
Who Moved My Dentures? Musings on aging and health care | September 10th 2009 by Anthony Cirillo
I have been blogging a lot lately about why patient centered care and person centered care have not taken firm root. Readers of the blogs came back to one systemic issue - leadership. A couple of recent Harvard articles might hold the answer to the l read more
Look to your leaders, not healthcare reform, to change long-term…
Who Moved My Dentures? Musings on aging and health care | September 8th 2009 by Anthony Cirillo
Read the guest blog in McKnight's Long Term Care News and Assisted Living. read more
Changing Corporate Culture – What Does it Mean?
Greenprofs.com | August 27th 2009 by greenprofs.com
Introduction Changing corporate culture — put the term into Google and you’ll find big companies and consultants offering theories, case studies and help. Very often leaders in businesses large and small equate change management read more
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