HELPFUL RESOURCES
EDITOR’S PICKS
The Cost of Inaction: Delaying Finance Outsourcing
If your finance team is feeling the strain — or if you’re simply curious about how outsourcing could help — you don’t have to figure it out alone.
Who Should Be Innovating In Your Organization?
The most successful innovation leaders don’t say “follow me” — they say “I believe in your vision. How can I help make it happen?”
Richard Branson’s One-Sentence Business Revolution
In Branson’s world this means leaders need to genuinely care about people and they need to hire people who genuinely care about people.
TECHNOLOGY
What Senior Living Misses About Resident Tech
The underlying message is clear: older adults aren’t “behind.” They’re exploring — when the on-ramp is built for them.
Learning From Fiction
With the right sensitivity to full disclosure, these emerging AI tools can be very powerful. They also have the potential to mislead.
Innovation For Cognitive Decline
One of the more perplexing challenges of our increased longevity is the growing problem of people with impaired cognition.
DEVELOPMENT
Senior Housing “Is a Consumer Business”
In the long run, the prize will go to those who are able to follow people to give them what they want as they age.
Myopia and Happy Talk
Among the panelists and the LeadingAge facilitator, there was jollity, camaraderie, and commiseration.
The Life You’re Leading Today Is Exactly Where You’re Meant to Be
Imperfection is what defines the human condition and what creates the opportunity to be better, to be happier, to grow, to change the world.
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Stillness As Strategy: Slowing Down Can Improve Care
Stillness practices, including Tai Chi, come from a being mode. And the being mode is where teams recover.
The Leadership Trap You Are Missing
Here is the truth: you like some of the people you lead better than others. And conversely, you dislike some of your team members.
Workforce Challenge
What would it take to turn the industry from convention and follow-the-leader innovation toward the embrace of the American spirit of creative innovation?
LEADERSHIP
Is Your Team Sold Out to Your Vision?
There are many organizations that say things like “customers first,” but nearly every interaction with those organizations proves they don’t mean it.
The Mathematics of Hierarchy
We humans are at our best when disaster strikes. That’s when peers come together without corporate structure to help each other.
This Is Insane. Or Is It?
Companies are doing team building by building human towers. Actual human towers. Do these kinds of activities actually build teams?
LIFE ENRICHMENT
Forgotten Souls
Will the industry that will be there when you are older, be no better than the industry to which you have dedicated your career? Is change possible?
More Wondering: Why Not Collaborate?
By consigning residents to subordinate status, high achievement residents can contribute positive energy and proven experience.
Why Not Collaborate?
I expected that the relationship would be one of cooperation to improve the lives of older people. Why isn’t that the case?
SALES & MARKETING
A Welcome Spam Message
The visual is appealing, and the glimpse of fresh vegetables immediately catches one’s eye. Quick impressions are paramount when you are sending spam.
Cultural Change from Them to Us
Can we return to that earlier culture in which the customer was central, and the enterprise served that customer?
Affiliating With the Village Movement
Imagine benefiting from a rapidly growing movement to improve your occupancy and your reputation for resident empowerment.
FORESIGHT RADIO
S8 Episode 4 – Is Senior Living Ready for the Longevity Revolution?
In this episode, Steve Moran sits down with Colin Milner to explore one of the biggest questions facing the senior living industry.
FORESIGHT TV
Legacy, Leadership, and the Family-Run Culture
Scott and Alexandra Schuster of Wingate Living explore innovating while staying true to the company’s values.