December 2018 Newsletter
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Don’t Lose Out on Points
The holiday season is here and with it comes the stress of traveling during this hectic time of year. But there is a silver lining! Properly taking advantage of frequent customer programs from your credit cards, hotels, rental cars, and airlines gives you ample opportunities for some truly amazing benefits. With a recent boom in [Read more...]
Book Review: 365 Days of Gratitude
As we know all too well, it’s rare that the world ever slows down. This has only become protracted by technology, enabling people to reach you in an instant and making it difficult to tune out from constant communication and tune in to ourselves. Around the holidays, though, there’s an [Read more...]
My Goals for 2019
There’s plenty of great content available that talks about actions you should take at the end of the year. The ideas tend to be very similar, but personally, I always re-read the content, as it puts me in a forward-focused mindset and reminds me why these tips have survived the [Read more...]
Celebrating My Wolf Pack
"For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack." The Law for the Wolves, Rudyard Kipling Last year, the Wolf Science Center at the University of Vienna released a study. In it, they compared dogs’ and wolves’ performances on a behavioral [Read more...]
CompassX Newsletter May – June 2018
On “The Great British Bake Off,” amateur bakers compete for the honor of creating the best baked goods. The bakers work quickly to assemble recipes and prepare them for evaluation, leaving us waiting anxiously until the end of each episode for the judges’ reactions. Often, the judges only deem a [Read more...]
Consumerism Trends Pushes Healthcare Interoperability Forward
Healthcare Interoperability has been chugging along since the late 90s but has not progressed quickly enough by many proponents’ standards. That is until now, with the rise of healthcare consumerism interoperability is being pushed forward at its’ highest speed in years. According to the Institute for Healthcare Consumerism (IHC), health [Read more...]
US Launches 10 Year Program to Track DNA in 1 Million People
President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) has set forth on its ambitious journey, mapping the DNA of one million volunteers. The potential upside is massive, unlocking key genetic information that could finally turn the battle against many health disorders with more effective, targeted treatments for diseases like cancer and diabetes. The [Read more...]
Barron’s Reveals Best Health CEOs: All Hail the Chiefs
Is your company lucky enough to employ one of the most respected CEOs in the world? Barron's Magazine released their 11th annual list of top corporate bosses; here I narrow the list to only leaders in the Health and Life Science industry. 1). Joseph Jimenez, Novartis CEO since 2010 Annualized [Read more...]
On Leadership – Are You Raising a Wolf or Dog Pack?
A new study presented at the Animal Behavior Society Conference categorizes wolves *not* dogs as the more tolerant, cooperative and independent thinking of the species. The theory and supporting data presented goes on to explain that we have bred and trained dogs into a hierarchal, obedient species. Our four-legged friends [Read more...]