Recent Articles
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Do leaders need to be transparent?
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementDoes transparency equate to trustworthy? How transparent do leaders need to be to create a transparent culture? The adjectives describing the type of leader we are have become critical. This three-part series reviews some common but different leadership descriptors and whether to embrace or ignore them. This article considers different perspectives of transparent leadership.
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Embedding mindfulness into your school
Brian Stack EducationStress can be a normal part of life, but too much stress can become toxic to the body, the mind and the soul. This is true for both children as well as adults. Toxic stress can impede learning with students and erode productivity for teachers in the school. This can lead to burnout and compromise relationships between children and schools with parents.
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5 key questions for potential volunteers
Deborah Ike Religious CommunityEvery church, regardless of size, needs volunteers. The challenge is in getting more people to serve on a regular basis. You may have tried several approaches to bridge that gap, including announcements from the stage, videos, emails, asking people individually and volunteer "job fairs." Those methods can work. However, it’s best to first consider how the approach you decide to use will come across to potential volunteers.
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Google is dominating the digital ed curriculum
Bambi Majumdar EducationDespite concerns about K-12 budgets, plans to increase gadgets and digital technology tools in classrooms are pushing ahead full-steam. The largest technology companies in the nation are vying for the top spot in the K-12 classroom market like never before.
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Discovering Wisconsin’s Frank Lloyd Wright Trail
Dave G. Houser Recreation & LeisureTimed to celebrate Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th birthday this year, a new trail has been established to take travelers on a self-guided architectural adventure through southern Wisconsin. Wright is widely regarded as America's greatest architect. Born in the Badger State's rugged Driftless Region, he spent his boyhood summers working on his uncle's farm in Spring Green and eventually built his now famous home and studio — Taliesin — just a mile away.
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Economies of scale: Learning from the past and planning for the future
David Newton Transportation Technology & AutomotiveI just returned from an aggressive tour of Germany — a weeklong trip from Berlin to Munich with several stops along the way. Much of the journey was spent getting to the next place on the schedule — trailing the Alps alongside the Autobahn where the mountains were perpetually attached to the horizon.
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Rapidly advancing dental implant field continues to innovate
Carolina Pickens Oral & Dental HealthcareThe dental implant industry expands across the globe year after year. In fact, the dental prosthetic and implant market is expected to exceed $6.4 billion by next year. More than 10 percent of dentists place implants, though that rate is expected to climb higher, as well. As the dental implant business continues to grow, so do advances in implant technology.
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Does copying and pasting into EHRs impact the level of care?
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationDo healthcare workers copy and paste into electronic health records? You bet. Apparently, it's a fairly widespread practice. However, providers might be increasing the risk to patients by simply entering repetitive and inaccurate EHR clinical data into physician notes, according to a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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With all the social buzz, where’s the Twitter talk?
Emma Fitzpatrick CommunicationsThere's endless chatter about the ways social platforms ceaselessly evolve. Instagram is testing a new tactic that could significantly impact influencer marketing. Facebook just debuted a new mission statement. The company now seeks to "give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together" instead of making "the world more open and connected."
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Early lessons from California right‑to‑die law
Joan Spitrey Medical & Allied HealthcareJust over a year after California enacted the End of Life Option Act, preliminary reports released by the Department of Public Health show 111 Californians took a lethal prescription to end their life in the first six months of the new law. Modeled closely after the Oregon law that was enacted almost two decades ago, California became the fifth state to allow patients with less than six months to live to request medication to assist in ending their lives. Currently, doctor-assisted death is legal in Montana, Vermont, Washington state and Washington, D.C.