Comments for Consulting Skills : Flawless Consulting Training http://www.designedlearning.com Designed Learning : A Peter Block Company Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:22:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on The Wrong Conversation about Health Care by performgrp http://www.designedlearning.com/the-wrong-conversation-about-health-care/#comment-8 performgrp Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:22:20 +0000 http://www.designedlearning.com/blog/?p=248#comment-8 Yes, Peter, it is the wrong conversation. I've been meeting with nurses and doctors for about 10 months now on a consulting project (using all the skills you taught me), talking mostly about care and treatment of diseases; but I find that many, many healthcare professionals also are very concerned and ready to focus on wellness and preventative medicine. (Much of their attention is focused on not making people sicker while they are in treatment!) If ObamaCare moves forward, millions of previously uninsured people are going to be showing up at doctor's offices and clinics and hospitals. One physician likened this change to a tsunami of new patients. As you suggest, everyday citizens must meet together, with legislators, with doctors, with hospital administrators, health departments, schools, etc. to design the kind of national healthcare system that WE want and need -- not the one designed by insurance and pharmaceutical companies. I can assure that doctors and nurses are ready to take leadership in this wellness/prevention movement, along with improved quality and outcomes in treatment of disease, (but current reimbursement systems support treatment, not prevention). Eg: Our local community (Sarasota/Bradenton, FL) is moving in this direction with some great dialogue right now). Thanks for your thoughts and for this blog! Yes, Peter, it is the wrong conversation. I’ve been meeting with nurses and doctors for about 10 months now on a consulting project (using all the skills you taught me), talking mostly about care and treatment of diseases; but I find that many, many healthcare professionals also are very concerned and ready to focus on wellness and preventative medicine. (Much of their attention is focused on not making people sicker while they are in treatment!) If ObamaCare moves forward, millions of previously uninsured people are going to be showing up at doctor’s offices and clinics and hospitals. One physician likened this change to a tsunami of new patients. As you suggest, everyday citizens must meet together, with legislators, with doctors, with hospital administrators, health departments, schools, etc. to design the kind of national healthcare system that WE want and need — not the one designed by insurance and pharmaceutical companies. I can assure that doctors and nurses are ready to take leadership in this wellness/prevention movement, along with improved quality and outcomes in treatment of disease, (but current reimbursement systems support treatment, not prevention). Eg: Our local community (Sarasota/Bradenton, FL) is moving in this direction with some great dialogue right now). Thanks for your thoughts and for this blog!

]]> Comment on If you’re not fast you’re food. by judyotto http://www.designedlearning.com/if-you%e2%80%99re-not-fast-you%e2%80%99re-food/#comment-7 judyotto Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:13:25 +0000 http://www.designedlearning.com/blog/?p=241#comment-7 Peter, You used to say "You are what you eat." Here's my rant on a similar topic. We in the United States represent 5 percent of the world’s population yet use 30 percent of the world’s resources, according to the World Resources Institute. http://www.wickedlocal.com/belmont/archive/x655691134/Otto-Reconsidering-consumerism Peter, You used to say “You are what you eat.”

Here’s my rant on a similar topic.
We in the United States represent 5 percent of the world’s population yet use 30 percent of the world’s resources, according to the World Resources Institute.

http://www.wickedlocal.com/belmont/archive/x655691134/Otto-Reconsidering-consumerism

]]> Comment on The Future of Community by CharleyBowman http://www.designedlearning.com/the-future-of-community/#comment-6 CharleyBowman Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:33:54 +0000 http://www.designedlearning.com/blog/?p=191#comment-6 First, I consider Twitter to be nothing more that diarrhea of the thumbs... On a personal level, social networks like Facebook have facilitated reconnecting with old friends and high school classmates. These on-line connections have led to many lunches, dinners and other face-to-face get togethers. It has also enhanced support from others and to others experiencing personal difficulties. On a business side, sites like LinkedIn has facilitated the connection to other consulting firms to form strategic partnerships that also require connecting by phone and in person to make a greater connection. To me the internet and social media are just door openers. Face-to-face is the end goal. First, I consider Twitter to be nothing more that diarrhea of the thumbs…
On a personal level, social networks like Facebook have facilitated reconnecting with old friends and high school classmates. These on-line connections have led to many lunches, dinners and other face-to-face get togethers. It has also enhanced support from others and to others experiencing personal difficulties.
On a business side, sites like LinkedIn has facilitated the connection to other consulting firms to form strategic partnerships that also require connecting by phone and in person to make a greater connection.
To me the internet and social media are just door openers. Face-to-face is the end goal.

]]> Comment on The Upside of Doubt by kareanderson http://www.designedlearning.com/the-upside-of-doubt/#comment-5 kareanderson Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:21:37 +0000 http://www.designedlearning.com/blog/?p=157#comment-5 Bill Your concerns are echoed in two books, The Big Sort and Going to Extremes, as I describe here http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2009/08/24/the-extremely-downside-of-group-solidarity/ Bill
Your concerns are echoed in two books, The Big Sort and Going to Extremes, as I describe here
http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2009/08/24/the-extremely-downside-of-group-solidarity/

]]> Comment on New Measures of Better Off by judyotto http://www.designedlearning.com/new-measures-of-better-off/#comment-4 judyotto Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:25:09 +0000 http://www.designedlearning.com/blog/?p=102#comment-4 Speaking as an elder, the above is how I was brought up, except for the passports. We were taught to conserve, recycle, wear hand-me-downs, play outdoors, plant gardens, and take care of the earth. Somehow our culture lost all that in the "prosperity" following WW II. My granddaughter has been gardening with me since she could walk. This year we have a victory garden where we eat peas and tomatoes off the vine. When I dig to plant, she rescues the worms so that they can live to do their work below in the soil. Children need such experiences! I fully believe that what is called ADD and ADHD today is really nature deficit disorder. But there are new things for kids to learn, too, things we might not have, like acceptance of racial differences and sexual orientation. They don't necessarily need passports to learn those things. And, if it's not too late, they may be able to teach us such things. Speaking as an elder, the above is how I was brought up, except for the passports. We were taught to conserve, recycle, wear hand-me-downs, play outdoors, plant gardens, and take care of the earth. Somehow our culture lost all that in the “prosperity” following WW II.

My granddaughter has been gardening with me since she could walk. This year we have a victory garden where we eat peas and tomatoes off the vine. When I dig to plant, she rescues the worms so that they can live to do their work below in the soil.

Children need such experiences! I fully believe that what is called ADD and ADHD today is really nature deficit disorder.

But there are new things for kids to learn, too, things we might not have, like acceptance of racial differences and sexual orientation. They don’t necessarily need passports to learn those things.

And, if it’s not too late, they may be able to teach us such things.

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]]> Comment on Stay in Touch! by AnaElsa Aviles http://www.designedlearning.com/stay-in-touch/#comment-3 AnaElsa Aviles Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:38:59 +0000 http://www.designedlearning.com/blog/?p=57#comment-3 Excited to join this community! Excited to join this community!

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