The Expertise Trap: When a Lot of Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing
Becoming a team leader or the CEO of a company requires tenacity, skill and knowledge. You either began as the company’s resident expert or quickly became that person — the [...]
Don’t Let a Fixed Income Put You in a Fix
There are various challenges to maintaining financial health in one’s later years, but one of the biggest is this: understanding the sheer scope of that challenge. In too many cases [...]
Why EQ Is Essential For A Leader
There is an interconnectedness to every organization, an undeniable link between each and every person that begins at the top of the food chain. A leader can define a company’s [...]
What a First-Time CEO Must Understand
The best advice I can offer a first-time CEO is this: Surround yourself with the right people. People who are enthusiastic and energetic. People who will buy in, but also [...]
Changing Times Call for Altered Business Approach
The challenges facing a business, whether in eldercare or any other field, are seemingly limitless in this day and age. As a result, the means of meeting those challenges ought [...]
Ideas Are a Dime a Dozen, But Execution is Richly Rewarded
Boardrooms are littered with good intentions. A company’s ideas are floated and fleshed out, dissected and even greenlighted, but in many cases, they never quite reach fruition. Sometimes it’s a [...]
What NOT To Do As A CEO: Leadership Approaches To Avoid, At All Costs
It is impossible to overstate the responsibilities shouldered by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a company or organization. Every decision made by someone bestowed that title could have far-reaching [...]
Not All Brain Exercises are Created Equal
Challenging the brain to understand new concepts and ideas can help seniors slow cognitive decline, but the challenge within the challenge is finding activities capable of forestalling such issues. Forbes [...]
What Are the Best Exercises for Seniors?
It’s no surprise that as we age, we lose strength, flexibility and balance. But there are a variety of ways to keep safely exercising in order to maintain the activities [...]
Bringing Comfort Those Afflicted Sundown Syndrome
A few years ago, writes Dr. David Scales, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, an elderly woman, already hospitalized, underwent a troubling transformation when day turned to night: [...]