Companies with women board members are more profitable than those without, as I’ve written about before. Research from Credit Suisse Research Institute confirms this. Yet female board members are still a rarity, and this is directly connected in part to the under-representation of women in executive positions, because board candidates are usually drawn from people […]
Archives for July 2015
Understanding the Aging Marketplace
We routinely accept without examination much of what we read and hear about Baby Boomers and older adults, and build beliefs on the shaky factoids, snippets of information disembodied from their contexts that often lead to meaningless or often false beliefs. What most businesses know about marketing was learned when youth dominated the marketplace. The […]
Where Do We Go from Here? Part 2
This post is part 2 of Critical Thinking Strategies for Aging Experts – My quest for answers to the general public’s denial in aging began several months ago after reading several studies on long-term care. You can refer to the report Misconception on Aging. Also, please read part one to comprehend the following answer by […]
Shadows don’t Always Lead to Darkness
“I’d tell people it was like I was surfing in front of a very large wave and as long as I kept going forward as fast as I possibly could, the wave would never get me. But if I ever stopped, and took a moment to look back. . . . Whoosh, the wave would […]
Greatness isn’t Easily Offended
These historic first few weeks of July reminds us of just how much we have been through together, as a nation and as individuals, from the civil rights movement we honor because of Martin Luther King, Jr., to women’s rights, so much of which is embodied in Roe vs. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision made over […]
Critical Thinking Strategies for Aging Providers
In a recent interview with John Feather, Ph.D., CEO of Grantmakers in Aging, we discussed the long-term care expert’s views of the general public when dealing with growing older. Most believe that our society lives in a state of denial when dealing with aging. Dr. Feather’s organization, with the help of other leaders in aging […]
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