Sun Life pulls plug on key U.S. businesses – The Globe and Mail.
The Boston Herald reports 800 will lose their jobs in MA.
Author: SupremeCmdr
Change This – The Promise of Entrepreneurship
We are made to believe that when it comes to business success, bigger is always better. In our super-sized, consumption-oriented culture, not even small business is exempt from the pressure to grow for growth’s sake. We fixate on top-line revenue growth and increasing numbers of employees and locations. We pepper entrepreneurs with questions such as, ‘What are your plans for expansion? What’s next? How many cities will you go to?’ instead of asking what their goals are or why they started their business in the first place. When talk about growth we focus on speed, not sustainability. When we talk about success we focus on size, not satisfaction.
via Change This – The Promise of Entrepreneurship.
From the Change This website:
Adelaide Lancaster is the co-founder of In Good Company, a community, business learning center and coworking space for women entrepreneurs in Manhattan. She is a small business expert and has advised thousands of women entrepreneurs on how to create businesses that meet their needs and keep them satisfied over time. She earned two graduate degrees in psychology from Columbia University and her undergraduate degree from Colgate University. ingoodcompany.com
GYL here – this manifesto really hit home for me. I am 5.5 years down the Path and I would have to say the effort and sacrifice is worth it. So if you’re on your Path or if you are not and considering getting on your own Path, you ought to read this. The link takes you to the Change This website. Once there you can download a PDF of the manifesto.
Facebook Is Making Us Miserable – Harvard Business Review
Facebook is negatively affecting what psychology Professor Jeffrey Parker refers to as “the closeness properties of friendship.”
via Facebook Is Making Us Miserable – Daniel Gulati – Harvard Business Review.
Please note I am not the author of the HBR blog article so please don’t shoot the messenger. I’m neither a huge fan nor harsh critic of what the pundits term as “the dominant communication platform of the future”. I simply don’t use Facebook a lot. I don’t have a smart phone. I have a dumb phone. I don’t use an iPad. I use an old-fashioned laptop if necessary.
If anyone wishes to communicate with me, email or phone works just fine thank you.
Or we could meet in person!
I Don’t Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore
I Don’t Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore – Dan Pallotta – Harvard Business Review.
This article would be funnier if it weren’t so true.
Read this blog article. Then remember a perfectly acceptable response is “I don’t have any idea what you just said to me.”
Declining GFR Linked to Mortality Risk After MI
Patients with chronic kidney disease had a significantly increased risk of death after myocardial infarction, and the risk increased as glomerular filtration rate (GFR) declined, a review of 103,000 myocardial infarction patients showed.
The excess mortality risk ranged from 17% to as much as 500% as the severity of chronic kidney disease (CKD) increased. CKD predicted heightened mortality regardless of the presence or absence of ST-segment elevation.
Watch that GFR.
Effect of Two Intensive Statin Regimens on Progression of Coronary Disease — NEJM
Acetaminophen OD More Deadly if Taken in Stages
Those who ingested more than 4,000 mg of acetaminophen in a single day spread out over more than one time point had a significantly higher mortality rate compared with those who overdosed at a single time point (37.3% versus 27.8%, P=0.025), according to Kenneth Simpson, MD, of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and colleagues.
The cohort analysis included 663 patients admitted with acetaminophen-induced severe liver injury from November 1992 through October 2008. About one-quarter (24.3%) overdosed in a staggered fashion, defined as taking at least two excessive doses separated by more than eight hours and adding up to more than 4,000 milligrams in one day. The rest of the patients ingested that much at a single time point.
Most of the patients who had a staggered overdose (58.2%) said that pain relief was the reason they repeatedly took an excessive dose. Another 34.3% said it was a suicide attempt.
Learn more at Acetaminophen Toxicity.
Personally I rarely take the stuff. It’s pure poison for the liver.
How to Underwrite Brain Damage
One of the more entertaining aspects of the web is the ability for the website’s manager/blogger to see the search strings people use to find his site.
Question/search engine string: “How to underwrite brain damage”.
Answer: Carefully.
Bob MacDonald on What’s So Hard about Doing the Right Thing?
In the abstract it is easy to say that doing the right thing is – at the very least – reporting the improper activity. But what if your report seems to be ignored? Are you off the hook and have no further responsibility? Even worse, if you do report it and your boss survives with nothing more than a reprimand, what might this do to your personal well-being and your future with the company? In theory, of course, you could quit your job and find another; but in this economy, is that possible? Is now the right time to put you and your family’s financial future at risk? You could go halfway and say nothing while you look for another job, but is that the right thing to do? This type of enigma is not an academic exercise. Anyone who has ever been in the business world, with ambitions to be successful and rise up the pyramid and support a family knows this type situation – and a wide variety of others – is more reality than theory. The real questions are: At what point are you willing to dilute or even trade in “doing the right thing,” to protect your career by “going along to get along”? At what point do you break and become willing to rationalize the elements of “doing the right thing?”
via What’s So Hard about Doing the Right Thing?.
Bob’s right. Read his entire blog post to understand why it is not easy to do the right thing. Thanks Bob and please keep writing and sharing.
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