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Volume 23 No. 44
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October 28, 2016
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A fear of small talk can limit your opportunities to engage in meaningful conversations, but understanding why it's needed and where you're lacking can spark some improvement. "The communication of ideas or information is secondary, almost incidental; the speech is mainly meant to serve the purpose of social bonding," writes David Roberts. Vox (7/3), The New Yorker (tiered subscription model) (7/4)
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Most people want to find meaning at work, to feel like they're needed, say columnist David Brooks and Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute. They share what inspires their work and how others might find meaning in theirs. The Atlantic online (7/4)
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There may be nothing that can fully prepare you for leadership, Joel Trammell writes, but he offers 10 steps people can take to further their own development ahead of leadership opportunities. The American CEO (6/29), Inc. online (free registration) (6/24)
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Providence Home Care CEO Brian Banks will not work with people who don't share the company's values, which include equitable treatment and integrity. He also discusses the "Everybody Matters" effort, in which employees help patients locally and in a medical clinic in Guatemala. The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City) (7/10)
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Offering palliative care consultations to nursing home residents reduced hospital readmissions, improved pain management and minimized burdensome care without raising costs, according to a 46-facility study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Researchers said the sooner palliative care consults were offered, the better, and suggested that accountable care organizations or participants in bundled care initiatives incorporate palliative care consults. McKnight's Long-Term Care News online (9/21)
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"You are not what you think you are. What you think, you are." -Unknown
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."
-George Horace Lorimar
"Don't bet distracted by criticism. Remember - the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you." -Zig Ziglar
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." -Kahlil Gibran
"Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do." -Pope John XXIII
"May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country." -Daniel Webster
"Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong." -Joe Barton
"Defeat is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality. To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to greater effort to achieve my goal. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth." -Bruce Lee
"I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good." -Oprah Winfrey
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