November 2009

Health Care Reform & High Frequency Utilizers

by Jean F. Meeks, Ph.D. on November 28, 2009

As the health care debate continues, political pundits, as well as hacks, talk in sound bites about insurance reform without understanding many of the challenges that face the system and add to its cost. Imagine if the discussion was about solutions to real problems instead of hot button, polarizing topics. What if we were truly [...]

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Ouch, where has the time gone! I have been in the air four times since I last wrote and each time I had all the good intentions of opening up my laptop and hunkering down to write.  Guess those good intentions went by the way side! With that insight, I want to talk about ground [...]

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Baltimore – Atlanta – Portland, Nov. 9, 2009

by Jean F. Meeks, Ph.D. on November 13, 2009

Ok, so I really thought that the WI-FI in the sky would be a god send, a gift beyond all gifts.   Well, I spent a total of 7 hours inflight (2 legs in all) on Delta on Nov. 9.  Delta had just launched the gogo inflight Wi-Fi.  The gogo left me all but gone gone!  [...]

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Stepping Into the Journey – Change Agents Versus Change Masters

by Jean F. Meeks, Ph.D. on November 13, 2009

The difference between change agents and change masters are that change agents embrace a change initiative and will work with the organization to carry this change initiative forward.  Change Masters are a different breed.  They are simply wired differently.  Change Masters see that life is change, there only exists  “NOW”, which is changing even before [...]

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Gallup CEO – The Next Evolution of Leadership

by Jean F. Meeks, Ph.D. on November 12, 2009

In an interview for the Gallup Management Journal, Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO of Gallup, predicts the end of the Deming, Six Sigma, process improvement era. He describes process improvement as one of the big evolutions of leadership, but that it has reached its plateau as organizations have maximized efficiencies and have run out of [...]

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