HELPFUL RESOURCES
EDITOR’S PICKS
TECHNOLOGY
What You Need to Know About Your IT. Before You Get Burned.
Because, if you’re looking to grow your organization to more than a handful of properties you’re going to get hammered if you don’t get strategic about IT.
New Staff Position Makes Residents Happier
Itzel’s title is “resident technology assistant.” You might think that would be part of the technology operation, but it’s not.
This Tech Tuesday Episode Made Me Angry
Because there’s no excuse in a world where integrated care coordination platforms like PointClickCare (a Foresight partner) exist.
DEVELOPMENT
The Guilt-Free Guide To Saying No: Your Sanity Is at Stake 🚫
It’s okay to say no to people’s requests. I’m not exactly an expert at this, but perhaps these 8 principles will help!
Legal Peril
Let’s hope that we can get there soon to restore justice to senior living providers and to those they serve.
A Traveling CCRC
There is much for CCRC operators and investors to learn from a deep dive into this intriguing new cruising lifestyle venture.
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Hours vs. Mission
We punched in and punched out. I lasted three weeks till I found something better … a job with purpose beyond hours.
Great Leaders Know Their Team’s Story — Do You?
This is the leadership stuff that no one ever talks about but is critical: when you know someone’s story, everything changes.
The Sacred Responsibility Of Leadership
Great leaders don’t just find great people — they build them. They create cultures where ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
LEADERSHIP
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.
Stagnation
Complacency can kill the creative spark, leading, as Dan fears, “to an industry largely indifferent to innovation.”
What the Joseph Schwartz Pardon Really Tells Us About Senior Living — And Why It Should Worry Us
When a large operator collapses due to massive mismanagement and the person at the center gets a second chance, it sends a terrible message.
LIFE ENRICHMENT
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.
A Disconcerting Health Care Question
The United States has the highest cost of healthcare of any advanced nation, without the wellness advances to match that outlay.
SALES & MARKETING
A Home for Lame Ducks
How would the market respond if the industry were upfront with the implicit outcome that residents are lame ducks for life?
What CCRC Operators Don’t Want to Hear
It’s time to pull a Steve Jobs and totally upend and reinvent the industry for the better. “You’ve got to start with the customer.” – Steve Jobs.
Gene Hackman and the Case for Senior Living
Every time I see another story about his death I find myself thinking … if only they had been living in a senior living community …
FORESIGHT RADIO
S7 Episode 22 – From Pessimism to Potential: Designing Senior Living for Legacy, Health, and Hope with Ben Lytle
Live from the SLIF’s Fall Conference, Steve Moran sits down with entrepreneur and former public-company CEO Ben Lytle.
FORESIGHT TV
The Habits of Highly Defective Bosses (And What They Teach Us)
Joel Hilchey joins Steve Moran for a conversation about leadership, missteps, and the lessons managers learn after they’ve made mistakes.