“Every accident is preventable”
May 18, 2022
Hal’s blog- This statement seems out of synch with a results focus…
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Are you terminal?
April 13, 2022
Hal’s blog- The question could not have been better. It was asked by a wife of her husband, a stoic special operations returning veteran.
What does having a Credential or meeting a Standard mean?
April 6, 2022
Hal’s Blog- The word “standards” sounds great. We all want people whose standards are high. The real question is whether the standards forecast the desired outcomes.
Sameness and Specialness
March 23, 2022
Hal’s Blog- My longtime friend and thought partner, Arthur Webb has just published a book about public policy in the field of intellectual and development disabilities (I/DD).
At rest or in motion?
March 16, 2022
Hal’s blog- “…products stay at rest because they are internally defined by what they are, not the motion to put them to use. People stay at rest not because they don’t want to do better but that they lack clear steps forward…”
Paying for Results…or the motivation to achieve them
March 9, 2022
Hal’s blog-I once worked with a Connecticut foundation whose grantee ran an afterschool program for struggling middle school students. We had been provided a list of students who did significantly better in school during the year they attended this program.
Language shapes more than thought
February 23, 2022
Hal’s Blog- “…Sustainability is not about us. It is about participants and their motivation and support to keep the gains they made.”
Increasing the voltage of ideas and their impact
February 16, 2022
Hal’s Blog- ….Understand the role of key people and how difficult they are to scale. Design for what you will get….
Starting Big. Ending Bigger
February 2, 2022
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In Results1st we often speak of trying things at a small scale and building on what works. Some ideas, however, need a significant critical mass even for the first application. My partner Robyn Faucy illustrated that while CEO of Neuro Challenge, a multicounty leader for persons with Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers.
Participant Activation
January 26, 2022
Hal’s Blog- In 2016 I led an inquiry for NACHC (National Association of Community Health Centers) into just what defined and explained The Great Community Health Center.
How to Pick Um
January 19, 2022
Hal’s Blog – Interviews are close to worthless in selecting great people. Regardless of the question, the response favors the slick talker.
January 12, 2022
Hal’s Blog- This Wednesday Whimsey is about a person whose last name I do not know. The reason is that only her first name appeared on her name badge at the paint section of the Lowe’s Home Improvement Center in Bradenton, Florida.