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#127 – CASCADING THREATS TO HOSPITAL PATIENT SAFETY – DAVID PATRISHKOFF

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David PGoing to a hospital to get healthier should not be a life-threatening activity. Yet, various research accounts (The Institute of Medicine) state that around 100,000 Americans die annually from preventable hospital errors. Patient Safety America estimates the number of deaths to be between 210,000 and 440,000 a year. Whatever the real number may be, the fact is the cascading threats that create preventable hospital deaths are invisible, underestimated and can build up slowly and silently over time. Continue reading →

#127 – CAREER DISRUPTION! – GREG HUTCHINS

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Greg Hutchins pixToday’s New York Times had an article: Is There Any Stopping Donald Trump?.  “They (voters) want to try something utterly different—utterly disruptive, to use the locution du jour—and that leaves them, on the Republican side, with the options of Trump and Ben Carson. Trump has the fire.”

We live in the age of disruption.  I’ve seem my career and work be disrupted.  So, this is my story and in many ways may become the story of your work, career, and job. So, pay heed.   Understand the conventional rules are now being changed.  For more tips, visit: Working It.com

I started out of high school doing manual work.   My first job was as an ordinary seaman in the merchant marine. I worked on rust buckets on and off for 5 years.   This manual work was very hard and frankly not suited to my style, abilities, temperament, and life direction. Continue reading →

#127 – DESIGN FOR RELIABILITY IS MORE THAN A SET OF TASKS – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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ABC FredWhat is “design for reliability” (DFR) and how would you recognize it if it was occurring? Is it possible for an individual to ”do” DFR? Is design for reliability a specific technique? Like meditation, nearly anyone can strike a pose that appears similar to someone in deep meditation, yet can you tell by observation if that person is really mediating? Probably not. The same is true for organizations or people declaring that they are doing DFR. Maybe they are—or maybe not. Continue reading →

#127 – SASB ANNOUNCES NEW SUSTAINABILITY ACCOUNTING CREDENTIALS – KELLY EISENHARDT

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Kelly EisenhardtSASB has announced a new educational program focused on teaching professionals how to identify, manage, and evaluate sustainability topics relevant to the company’s bottom line. This new program is called the Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) Credential.

Nicolai Lundy is the Director of Education for the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) where he oversees SASB’s educational products. His responsibilities include designing value-add educational programs, leading program development, and identifying opportunities to improve existing programs. Continue reading →

#127 – CONWAY’S LAW – KIRBY URNER

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AAA IRBYNot every day does one learn of a new law, such as Moore’s, so call me a latecomer in not learning of Conway’s Law until recently.

What does it say?

I’ll try from memory before checking a veridical source:  that how organizations code themselves in software has a tremendous influence on their more overt intra-human communications patterns.  Or, in other words.

“We are what dog food we eat.” Continue reading →