Public Health

Reimagining the public health system post pandemic. I have been reading the new book from Michael Lewis called The Premonition. It’s a story about the deficiencies of the US public health system. The leading characters were rarely if ever in the news during the...

New Initiatives

Translating strategic initiatives into operational excellence. Brad Feld shared his experience trying to syncing some of his old technology in a recent Feld Thoughts posts. I felt his pain. I spent part of the holiday on a different project but had a similar...

Default to truth

Why do we default to truth when someone is lying? Most people default to truth until their doubt and the facts tell them otherwise. My default belief has been set using the 80/20 rule. 80% of people tell the truth and do the right thing. Based on Talking with...

Scale Up Excellence

Principles from scaling up excellence to facilitate change. Change is hard for people because it disrupts our routines and creates uncertainty in our lives.  If we had a choice most of us would rather not change unless the pain of what we are currently doing is so...