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• 3 steps to a better thank you

  Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  The thank you — written or spoken — is a cornerstone of good manners. And while acts of appreciation have become more varied (shout-outs, likes and gratitude apps, to name a few) the practice of gratitude has also become easier. We can leverage this ease to send more frequent and meaningful thanks. Taking a few minutes to rethink the email thank you or get out of our private gratitude journals to send a genuine paper-and-pen thank you may be easier than it sounds and serve us in more ways than we remember.

• FAA confirms more Boeing 737 Max problems

  Michelle R. Matisons Transportation Technology & Automotive

  It has been almost three months since a Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed in Ethiopia in March. Subsequent months have produced an especially tense safety review process since the 737 Max 8 plane model is the most common in the world. After three high-profile incidents within the past nine months, Boeing is in the midst of a greater discussion on airline regulations and safety standards. Now, it looks like the 737 Max will be grounded until at least August. What went wrong?

• New hospital quality and safety ratings released, show improvements from…

  Christina Thielst Healthcare Administration

  The Leapfrog Group, which represents employers and other purchasers of healthcare services, has released its new spring 2019 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades. Overall, there has been a significant improvement in 2019 (160,000) from its 2016 estimate (205,000) of lives lost from avoidable medical errors. Through its affiliation with the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, it has also updated its estimate of deaths due to errors, accidents, injuries and infections at hospitals. Like other hospital rating systems, the grades can be viewed as triggers for asking questions for more informed patients.

• Why we need more graduates to enter the trades

  Brian Stack Education

  Every month or so, a community member or parent in my high school sends me an article that talks about how schools need to spend more time investing in the trades. The latest share came from the Hechinger Report’s Matt Krupnick, who wrote about how after decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, the U.S. needs more tradespeople. Krupnick went on to share how states like California are spending millions of dollars on campaigns to revive the reputation of vocational education. California’s efforts are at the heart of a debate raging across our country. Trades have often had an "image" problem, being seen as a less-desirable alternative to college. This is wrong.

• New study: Rural telehealth capabilities are lagging

  Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Telemedicine is frequently touted as a technology tool that can help improve healthcare access for rural populations, especially in areas with physician shortages. But telemedicine might not be the silver bullet to improve rural healthcare when those same areas have significant infrastructure challenges, new research says. Telemedicine may have trouble even getting implemented in these locales because of "substantially lower broadband penetration rates," a research report published in Annals of Internal Medicine found.

• Travel2020: Summer travel at airports may be heading for slowdowns, showdowns

  Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  It may be the summer of love in some parts of the country, but it could also be the summer of slowdowns as well, especially for passengers flying on American Airlines or anyone trying to snake through U.S. airport security lines. American is in a standoff with its mechanics union, waging accusations of staging slowdowns in the midst of contract talks happening between the two entities. Meanwhile, as the Trump administration moves manpower to the southern border, U.S. flyers stand to see slowdowns at TSA checkpoints as they try to catch their flights.

• Changing consumer needs in food and beverage will impact real estate

  Bambi Majumdar Food & Beverage

  CBRE recently reported that massive shifts in the food and beverage industry will impact the real estate market in a big way. Millennial consumers are pushing for prepared food and ready-made, convenient meals that they can pick off the shelves. U.S. restaurants and grocery operators are reinventing themselves to meet these new demands. The real estate these businesses occupy will be revisited as well.

• Should companies talk to baby boomers about retirement?

  Terri Williams Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Before baby boomers retire, companies need to plan for possible successors and skill transference, among other issues. However, a survey by Willis Towers Watson, a risk management and insurance brokerage company, found that companies have several concerns regarding potential retirees. The company surveyed 143 human resource managers, representing close to 3 million employees. The resulting report, "Employer Concerns and Responses to an Aging Workforce," reveals that companies struggle to plan for replacing retiring workers, in part because these employees don’t share their retirement plans.

• A game plan for meeting US military weight standards

  Roy Phillips Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  I was assigned to Berlin Brigade during the infamous drawdown of 1994. The Department of Defense had been directed to undertake a reduction in force (RIF), and accomplished this directive by offering early outs and by increasing the stringency of weight standards. Our best NCO, "Staff Sergeant J" was coming up on the end of his fourth four-year enlistment. He had 16 years in, and needed only four more to retire. Unfortunately, he was considered overweight, according to Army Regulation 600-9. And, in accordance with Army regulations, he was barred from reenlistment.

• Urban farming in the US: Breaching the urban-rural divide

  Lucy Wallwork Waste Management & Environmental

  Farming is one of the oldest professions there is. But as society has urbanized, we have gradually lost our connection with the industry that puts food on our plates. One jarring survey in the U.K. found that nearly 1 in 10 elementary school children think that tomatoes grow under the ground. In parallel with urbanization has come the severing of our relationship with the people and land that grows our food. But now we are hearing that a new urban revolution in food is apparently sweeping through our city centers… so, can urban farming change our relationship with food?

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