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Germinal Windows
The land I live on had a wildfire in 2008. After ten years of drought, on the day after a lightning storm on a hot July day, a thousand acres of timbered canyons burned. In a place that gets a scant twelve to fourteen inches of rain a year, I thought we’d lose...
The Syndemics of Health
Understatement: the pandemic brought the value of health into sharp relief. The value of health itself—so often assumed—became tangibly essential when all of us were vulnerable, when there wasn’t a pill, when we couldn’t get toilet paper or food or an appointment to...
The Coronavirus Effect: Leading in a Disruptive Age
Right now, as the virus SARS-CoV-2 alarms us with minute-to-minute updates and pauses us with extra time, it’s inviting us—compellingly-- to reflect on how we will lead in the starting-now future. Our thoughts jumble as we waken to awareness in this viral 9/11 moment...
There are two sentences: Pick one
A friend of mine is a chief strategy officer for a big health system, upwards of 20 billion dollars. He’s been around the block—ICU nurse, hospital president, system executive. He’s impeccably good at his job, and he won’t do anything less than impeccable work. He’s...