Want to learn more about how to use LinkedIn this Wednesday? I'm so excited to join these powerhouses, sharing all the stuff we learned over the years! I speak around 3pm CST about how to gain 100,000 followers! Drop me a note below if you're coming so I can look out for you! See you soon! #socialmedia …see more

Churchill was a great wartime leader. Different situations call for different #leadership skills. The current economic crisis will be significant for many of us. What can leaders do? 1. Communicate, Communicate, Communicate- Be transparent, say it as you see it. It is the only way to get trust and respect. 2. Plan, Plan, Plan- Anticipate issues, create scenarios and have SOP around this. 3. Ownership, Ownership, Ownership- Outline 3-5-7 action plans with clearly defined responsibilities for each one? 4. Visualise, Visualise, Visualise- Imagine the future when all this is behind us. What is it going to look like for everyone. 5. Commit, Commit, Commit - You are asking a lot from people. Give your personal commitment and show that you care and you will stand by them. …see more

Epicurus said it best: “By pleasure,” he wrote, “we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul.” Simply put, the drive to relieve discomfort is the root cause of all behavior, while everything else is a proximate cause. In pool, what makes the colored balls go into the pockets? Is it the white cue ball, the stick, or the player’s actions? The white cue ball and stick are necessary, but the root cause is the player using the game’s tools. The white cue ball and stick aren’t the root causes; they are the proximate causes. In the game of life, it’s tough to see the root causes. We might blame a coworker for taking our job when passed over for a promotion instead of reflecting on any personal pitfalls. These proximate causes help us deflect responsibility elsewhere. Without understanding and tackling the root causes, we’re stuck being the helpless victims in a self-created tragedy. The distractions in our lives are proximate causes that we think are to blame, while root causes stay hidden. We tend to blame things like TV, junk food, and social media, but these are all proximate causes. We must deal with the root causes or continue to risk getting distracted. Distraction isn’t about the distraction itself; it’s about how we respond to it. #Indistractable …see more

In my book Indistractable, I spend time discussing the concept of precommitments as means of behavior change. One useful precommitment is the “price pact” -- a precommitment that involves putting money on the line to motivate us. Consider a study where smokers wishing to quit were placed into 3 random groups. The first group was given traditional smoking cessation treatments such as informational materials on the benefits of quitting and nicotine patches. Next, the “reward group”, was told they’d be given $800 at the end of the study if they managed to stop smoking for 6 months. The last group, the “deposit group”, was required to make a precommitment deposit of $150, and if they didn’t smoke during the study, they’d get their deposit back and an additional $650 -- totaling out to $800. The results? The “deposit group” members were nearly 9 times more likely to quit than those in the first group and 3 times more likely to quit than those in the reward group. This became the most successful smoking cessation trial ever conducted. If making a “price pact” helped people stop using a highly addictive substance like nicotine, it can also help people become Indistractable. Understanding these quirks of human psychology helps us design the lives we want. #Indistractable …see more

Is someone building a Spotify-type subscription service for articles/columns from leading publications? (Or have they built it already and I haven’t found it?) Wouldn’t it be great if I could pay $10 (or 5 or 20) per month to get access to x pieces or y words? I would choose my favourite authors across publications and maybe add a ‘surprise me’ option to discover new authors based on what other readers like read. The trick is to cover a wide enough range of publications to satisfy 90% of my reading needs. Given that learning something new will becomes a real need for everyone, surely this must be a viable proposition? #AskingBetterQuestions …see more

Home office where I spend most of my day reading, writing, watching webinars, recording while sipping numerous cups of tea. Do you recognise the corners from my videos? With glass on three sides, I’ve had a reverb issue...last week I propped cushions against my computer...but hopefully my natural rug will now fix this. Anyone have other suggestions? #homeofficelife …see more

#Accounting marketers were instrumental when it came to communicating with clients and staff around #Covid19 . But what does marketing look like now that the initial rush is over? And what should #CPAs be doing to market in the future? Join me as I talk with Katie Tolin , chief growth guide with CPA Growth Guides, about what #CPAfirms are facing today and what changes may be in store as we look forward. #accountants #RadicalCPA #CPALove #accountantlove #AAMKT …see more

What does it take to launch a company? How do you go from proof of concept to revenue generation to obtaining outside funding? In this episode of Let’s Get Radical…LIVE!, I’m talking with Botkeeper ’s founder and CEO Enrico Palmerino . Join in to hear how this radical serial entrepreneur got the idea for automated accounting and built Botkeeper into the successful company it is today. #accounting #accountants #CPAs #CPAfirm #RadicalCPA #CPALove #accountantlove #accountingtech #botkeeping #botkeeperfordummies …see more

Study shows that the team-based exercises, cycling, gym workouts, and running/jogging in that priority order demonstrate most impact on lowering stress and depression

This is my favourite story these days. This is how you develop and deploy an A.I.-based algorithm for a clinical purpose. Sepsis Watch is the product of three and a half years of development (which included digitizing health records, analyzing 32 million data points, and designing a simple interface in the form of an iPad app). It scores patients on an hourly basis for their likelihood of developing sepsis (when an infection triggers full-body inflammation and causes organs to shut down). It then flags those who are medium or high risk and those who already meet the criteria. Once a doctor confirms the diagnosis, the patients get immediate attention. It has dramatically reduced sepsis-induced patient deaths and is now part of a federally registered clinical trial expected to share its results in 2021. #healthcare #aihealthcare #digitalhealth #artificialintelligence …see more

Social media is truly a double-edged sword during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, it's an essential tool for us to get information and be updated with guidance from pandmic experts. It also serves as a repository of solutions medical professionals can use worldwide. Just look at the myriad of Facebook groups and Twitter hashtags that connect the maker community to those in need. Second, it overwhelmes us with information that is hard to digest and causes anxiety. Just think about how our lives will change after that. Let's say officials open up the lockdowns and curfews. People will not rush the streets ad buy air tickets immediately. It will take months to regain our trust in the world and its safety. What you can do is to point out reliable resources such as the map dashboard from Johns Hopkins or official sites from WHO or CDC, and direct people who are anxious there. You can help digest the news and look for consensus when it comes to questions like "Shall I wear a mask if I have no symptoms". You can help ease this anxiety so we can get back to an almost normal world (or maybe even a bit better) in a few months. #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #medicine #technology #fromchancetochoice #COVID19 #COVID_19 #coronavirus …see more

Very promising papers come out every day about machine and deep learning algorithms used for medical and healthcare purposes and this field is just blowing up. I received questions from physician colleagues who are not A.I. experts about how they should evaluate these papers. I thought I would share a few things I do myself. - It matters where the paper is published. It's not scientific elitism but it matters if a new algorithm gets presented in Nature Medicine or in a third level journal. - Look for the Methods section where they describe where they got the data. No algorithm can be trained without a good amount of quality data. Some groups just use a good dataset and do tricks on it to make it bigger (e.g. invert images to double the database size). That's not the same as getting a huge amount of annotated data. - Look for the clinical collaboration they had. If an algorithm works well on a pre-selected dataset, that sounds fine. But when it works on clinical datasets too, that is the one we are looking for. When I saw @ DeepMind collaborating closely with the NHS, I knew that was the right direction. Can you please share the tricks you use while assessing a medical A.I. paper? #digitalhealth #healthcare #medicine #technology #AI #artificialintelligence #TMFchessjourney …see more

I constantly learn to become better at forecasting and building strategies in digital health for governments and organizations. This book is an amazing summary for everyone who would like to organize such workshops in their company or group. #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #medicine #technology #book #reading #read …see more

Excited to be co-teaching Healthcare Innovation at UW this fall with Emer Dooley  and a star studded line-up of speakers.  Spread the word.  It's going to be great!   Mike McSherry , T. A. McCann , Kevin Cable , Ralph C. Derrickson , Chris DeVore , Derek Streat , Adam Clark , Henry Albrecht , David Schoolcraft , Michael Hilton , Kirsten Morbeck , Eric Bell .   #PNWhealthcareinnovation …see more

Such wonderful news. Huge congratulations Julia! Queens'​ College, Cambridge University of Cambridge …see more

Per this Bloomberg Markets chart: Among the signals from an ADP labor market report whose headline number (+167,000 jobs) came well below the range of expectations of economists and Wall Street analysts (0.2-2.6 million), the worrisome indication that the pace of hiring moderated in July. #economy #jobs #ADP #employment #hiring #unemployment #ADP …see more

On the data front, The Wall Street Journal on what the bounce in auto sales in China does and doesn't tell us. https://lnkd.in/gwhmSyG #economy #growth #markets #em #emergingmarkets #china #wsj …see more

The European Commission joins others in revising down growth for 2020 (to 8.7% for the Euro area -- Bloomberg Markets chart below -- and 8.3% for the EU as a whole ) while also stretching out the recovery phase (including revising down 2021 growth to under 6%). #economy #growth #Europe #markets #EU #Europe #Euro #Bloomberg #BloombergMarkets …see more

A snapshot of the growth in reported infection in California (chart below). A local hospital group is reporting a 29.8% increase in hospitalization, week-on-week. Remember, California accounts for around 13% of the US economy. If it were a country, it would have the 5th largest economy in the world. #economy #california #covid #covid19 …see more

For the reasons detailed in my April Project Syndicate article (link below), many of us have been extremely worried about the spread of COVID-19 in developing countries. Initial optimism about avoiding major outbreaks has given way to troubling numbers that involve massive human pain and suffering (as illustrated by these charts from the Wall Street Journal -- link also below). https://lnkd.in/esm7Ff2 https://lnkd.in/esm7Ff2 #ProSyn #covid #developingcountries #em #emergingmarkets #economy #wsj …see more