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
Innovation For Cognitive Decline
One of the more perplexing challenges of our increased longevity is the growing problem of people with impaired cognition.
A Chief Elder Officer’s Plan To Fix Home Care’s Broken Math
Neal shares a big, spicy idea for senior living: don’t just sell tech into communities — build a community that is tech-native from the start.
Are Staffing Ratios Intelligent?
Mandated staffing ratios ignore the potential of emerging technologies. Let’s instead improve the quality, convenience, and effectiveness of all we do.
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
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 Lessons From a Hot Dog Stand
If you run any kind of business where frontline workers are the engine — healthcare, hospitality, senior living — this should stop you cold.
LEADERSHIP
We Would Never Accept This From a Doctor. Why Do We Accept It From Leaders?
Real leadership development is ongoing, contextualized, and honest about where a leader actually is, not where they think they are.
“Great Conference!” (And Other Things We Say But Don’t Feel)
Ask anyone walking out of a conference how it went. Amazing. Wonderful. Best one yet. Maybe they all meant it. And maybe not!
Resident Leaders: Why Not Collaborate?
We can all benefit if we mobilize the talent in our midst as human beings. Let’s tell the industry leaders that we are better when we work together.
LIFE ENRICHMENT
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?
Why That “Funny” LinkedIn Post About Family Members Is Actually a Crisis
Every business in the world has people who complain. And the ones who can make you truly better are not the ones bringing cookies.
50 Ways to Stay Out of Senior Living – An Ode to Paul Simon
I found myself wondering if I could come up with a list of 50 ways to stay out of senior living (with a little help from AI of course).
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 03 — Steve Moran on Building Foresight, Senior Living Leadership, Content Creation, and Legacy
In this episode of Foresight Radio, Steve Moran sits down for a candid conversation about the journey behind Senior Living Foresight, how he went from a shy writer to one of the most recognized voices in senior living, and why storytelling, persistence, and community...
FORESIGHT TV
Leadership, Longevity, and the Future of Recruiting in Senior Living
Steve Moran is joined by Chris Heinz, of Westport One, to explore how leadership and recruitment in senior living are rapidly evolving.