HELPFUL RESOURCES
EDITOR’S PICKS
The Cost of Inaction: Delaying Finance Outsourcing
If your finance team is feeling the strain — or if you’re simply curious about how outsourcing could help — you don’t have to figure it out alone.
Who Should Be Innovating In Your Organization?
The most successful innovation leaders don’t say “follow me” — they say “I believe in your vision. How can I help make it happen?”
Richard Branson’s One-Sentence Business Revolution
In Branson’s world this means leaders need to genuinely care about people and they need to hire people who genuinely care about people.
TECHNOLOGY
My Contraband Health Tracker
As a technology junkie, I soon became aware of a watch that tracks blood pressure. The only problem. It’s banned in the United States …
Never Let the Present Blind You to the Future
How long will it be before AI is as power-efficient as a modern laptop or smartphone? Let’s keep moving forward to reap the benefits.
An Ancient View of AI Origins
Grappling with artificial intelligence and the related question of how AI should be regulated brings the obvious challenge of change in senior living.
DEVELOPMENT
Rural America Could Solve Senior Living’s Affordability Crisis
The benefits for potential residents are obvious — a great living experience at a much lower cost. For the industry, the list is long…
Communal Origins of Senior Housing
Senior housing has become a business, which makes it easy to forget its beginnings in grassroots efforts by communities of faith.
Senior Living Franchising
There is a potential for franchising to supplement today’s senior living capital. And the concepts may inspire new thinking about how we age in America.
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Why Your Team Doesn’t Trust You (And the Stupidly Simple Fix)
When team members trust their leaders, everything is better. Team members are more productive. They’re happier. They’re less likely to quit.
The Simple Question That Transforms Team Connection
Connection is the foundation of everything else you’re trying to build as a leader. This one question builds that foundation one sentence at a time.
The One Thing Your Team Needs Most (And You’re Probably Missing It)
The thing that makes humans happiest — whether we’re introverts or extroverts — is meaningful interaction with other people.
LEADERSHIP
If Someone Audited Your Life, What Would Shock Them?
Leadership work is never “done. Which is why … every once in a while, if we want to be at our best, it is imperative that we STOP.
The Changing Ethics of American Business
We all live with an unconscious shaping of our values and thinking by the culture in which we live. That’s as true of businesspeople as it is of everyone.
The “I Am” Exercise: How Your Identity Shapes Your Leadership Impact
When you don’t consciously choose which identity to lead with, you default to whatever feels comfortable, and comfortable isn’t always effective.
LIFE ENRICHMENT
Facing My Mortality at LeadingAge: The Lessons Hidden in Suffering
I continue to live the best life I can, except with slightly more urgency to love my family and a renewed commitment to making the world a better place
Four Strangers and the Key to Happiness
The things we’ve been lured into thinking will make us happy fill time but empty our souls. We’re waking up. And that makes me hopeful for humanity.
The Loneliest People in America Live Surrounded by People Exactly Their Age
The question is whether we’re willing to admit that 60 years of age-segregated senior living was a mistake.
SALES & MARKETING
Vicarious Vendor Experience
It’s naïve to think that a booth staffed with no more than a salesperson will attract interest. You have to have something to grab attention.
Why Your Social Media Strategy Is Failing (And How to Fix It)
Here’s the truth: the algorithm doesn’t care about your content anymore — it cares about conversations. Brooke’s CARE framework turns this upside down …
Advertising and Branding for Our New Age
Human creativity and perception are key to building dominant brand awareness. AI will not take that away from us.
FORESIGHT RADIO
S7 Episode 24 – Beyond ‘Behaviors’: Seeing Dementia as a Human Condition with Zach Parlier
Rachel Hill sits down with Zach Parlier, administrator and self-described dementia enthusiast at English Rose in Edina, Minnesota.
FORESIGHT TV
A Conversation with Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki joins Steve Moran on #ForesightTV to discuss what senior living operators can steal from Apple’s playbook.