Participant Activation

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. 

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.

A Highway Worth Traveling

Hal’s Blog 12/22/2021 Did you happen to read Amor Towles bestselling and wonderful book, A Gentleman in Moscow?  Towles has a new book out called the Lincoln Highway.  I noted a number of passages I found both gentle and provocative. Here are four of them with what sticks with me from each.  

“Data Driven”

If I had a penny for every admonition heard or read to be driven by data, my financial cup would runneth over.

The Path of the Calf: Part 2

In my last entry, I shared Samuel Foss’s poem, the Path of the Calf. It is cited by me and others who seek innovation as its opposite: getting in a groove and staying there. This week let’s turn that coin over to look at the limits of more free-form traveling. First, consider the value of staying on a path long enough to really learn it. Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers sums up the...

Innovation Comes from Immaturity

This assumption is based on a limit and on a rediscovery. The limit is the concept of growing up, which implies acceptances of convention and tradition that innovators avoid. Indeed, the designation of “immaturity” is frequently applied to innovators of all ages who constantly question the rules. To be mature is to become habituated to life’s prevailing norms, values and habits. In many...