Category: Leadership
Who Are You Causing to Fail?
Do you take any time to think about the impact that the thing you need, want, or plan to do will have on those you are leading?
Read MoreJust Because You Can Does Not Mean You Should
When we do the right thing, we build tremendous loyalty that over time will come back in terms of higher occupancy and fewer legal claims.
Read MoreThings Will Go Wrong
When organizations are managing risks right, they first assume that things will go wrong, and because of that assumption …
Read MoreThe One Thing Excellent CEOs Miss
They nearly universally have one trait that actually makes it even harder for others to be like them. Here is what it is:
Read MoreThe Crazy Question You Should Ask Every Complainer
Think about how you would react after complaining about some service or product if the company simply asked, “What would it take to make it right?”
Read MoreThe Real You
They want to know that sometimes you don’t know what to do, that you make mistakes. Mostly they want to know who the real you is.
Read MoreA Preocupation With Failure
There are in this world a few industries that are remarkably failure resistant. The question is what makes them different? It’s a single thing: They are obsessed with failure.
Read MoreWould I Live Here?
A significant aspect of what I do is visit senior living communities. I find it really hard to write about the industry without experiencing it for myself.
Read MoreA Time for Self-Evaluation???
If you have the courage to tackle these questions, you will be more successful and happier in your professional and personal life.
Read MoreThe Forgotten Association
My experience is that most senior living operators have no idea that there is a national association of residents.
Read MoreHow to CEO
Do you aspire to CEO? If not, why not? Perhaps you are well-qualified and just doubt yourself. Instead of letting fear limit your life, lift your sights.
Read MoreYou Can Learn So Much
I want to propose that if all you do at the NIC Spring conference in Dallas is network, you will miss out big time. Take a look …
Read MoreBosses and Thinkers
Is it possible for senior living executives and residents to join together in a common cause to make old age the best years of our lives?
Read MoreWho Do You Create Value For?
Imagine that for all of 2024, at the end of every workday, you asked yourself: Who did I create value for today?
Read MoreTop 2024 Senior Living Conferences
At Foresight, one of the most-asked questions we get is, “What’s the best senior living conference to attend?”
Read MoreBring Out the Best in People
As a leader, the opportunity to build into the lives of younger and aspiring leaders is perhaps the greatest gift you have been given.
Read MoreWishing Our Own Death
The thing I hate most about the conversation is that it represents knee-jerk thinking of the general public.
Read MoreFederal Standards Are Not the Solution
By Jack Cumming On January 25, as expected, the Senate Special Committee on Aging held its hearing...
Read MoreHow People Think of You
Most of our readers are “bosses,” and as a boss, you have a profound impact on the lives of your team members.
Read MoreRestoring Trust to Senior Living [Senate Hearing]
The simplest sign the senior living industry could send would be for a spokesman to appear at the hearing on Thursday to declare a new dawn.
Read MoreTurning Brookdale and All of Senior Living Around
Senior living owners and operators would sleep like babies — if only we were willing to believe the industry can be turned around.
Read MoreWhy Is the WaPo Trying to Wreck Senior Living?
The Washington Post appears to be intent on hurting older people in this country, and I don’t know why!
Read MoreThe Experiment Concludes
What the experiment told me is powerful, wonderful, and not hugely surprising. We are a group of people who really care about other people.
Read MoreBoard Matters
Ethical standards dictate that the board ensure that the business fully accepts its moral responsibilities.
Read MoreDoor Plugs and Senior Living
My dream is that we start being more forthright about fails where the consequences were minimal or nonexistent. That we can tell the lessons we learned.
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