By Michael C. Aquilino Are you the type of person who is interested in deriving results? My life’s work has been dedicated to supporting, guiding, coaching, and strategizing with individuals, teams and organizations throughout the country in order to garner the results they envision. Helping people bolster their “resilience” is one of the things I do. Within this conversation about the “R Factor” there is a distinction at work that plays a vital role in being successful in all that ...
Read MoreBy Lori Knutson RN, HNB-BC Building and leading an integrative health and medicine program within a system requires an intrapreneurial spirit. An intrapreneur is “a person within a large corporation who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a profitable finished product through assertive risk-taking and innovation.” But unlike an entrepreneur, an intrapreneur doesn’t own the product or service; the system or organization owns the creative ideas and end products produced by the individual(s). So why do it? ...
Read MoreBy Jeffrey Brantley, MD Leaders, as well as most of us while growing up, have been widely encouraged not to make impulsive, emotional decisions, or to take action based on incomplete information, or a limited or one-sided understanding of the situation. The intellectual foundations for this advice are familiar. They appear in well-developed bodies of knowledge associated with terms like "emotional intelligence," "social intelligence," "self-awareness," and, of course, "good parenting!" The best of such advice does not deny, condemn, or ...
Read MoreBy Ruth P. Blodgett, MBA As health systems across the nation focus on moving from volume to value to improve health and quality as well as reduce the cost of healthcare, one health system decided to adopt mindfulness for its employees as a key strategy to improve the health of its community. With an initial goal to utilize the principles of integrative health to help transform the health of our community, the Berkshire team quickly realized that we needed to start ...
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