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Topic: Health and Fitness

  
PERSONAL GROWTH   |  1 comment

Lotus (Position) 1-2-3

BY Todd Balf
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:45 PM

A skeptic's search for a stress-busting workout regimen leads him to ... yoga.READ»

PHILANTHROPY   |  Comment

This " Killer App" Saves Money and Lives

BY Eric Ransdell
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:07 AM

Dr. Joe Prendergast is using the world's most powerful communications medium to address one of the world's most costly diseases -- diabetes. A case study in lifesaving digital innovation from DiabetesWell.READ»

PERSONAL GROWTH   |  2 comments

Only the Pronoid Survive

BY Harriet Rubin
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:08 AM

Forget Andy Grove's famous saying about the power of paranoia. Neo-Darwinist Helena Cronin says that competition today favors the generous.READ»

MANAGEMENT   |  Comment

Andy Grove to CDU: Why Are You Looking at Me?

BY Jill Rosenfeld
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:20 AM

Consultant Debunking UnitREAD»

EMPLOYEE RETENTION   |  Comment

Business Fights Back: Crisis and Confidence at Ground Zero

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:32 AM

Pamela Porter and her colleagues at Crisis Management International are the National Guard of therapists -- called to duty at a moment's notice to respond to disaster. Here's the remarkable story of their response to September 11.READ»

GENERATIONAL RELATIONS   |  Comment

Strategic Innovation: The Children's Hospital at Montefiore

BY Polly LaBarre
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:34 AM

Dr. Irwin Redlener has spent his career devising solutions to large-scale problems of health care for disenfranchised children. The latest expression of his single-minded agenda combines excellence in pediatric care with cutting-edge design, the latest technology, and the worldview of Carl Sagan.READ»

HEALTH CARE   |  1 comment

Miracle of Birth

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:37 AM

Looking for inspired leadership, passionate employees, unsurpassed productivity, and grateful customers? Forget the dispirited corridors of corporate America. Look instead to the bursting-with-life corridors of Parkland Memorial Hospital, a remarkable place that delivers more than 16,000 babies per year -- more babies than any other hospital in the country. That's more babies, in fact, than are born in 10 of America's states. There is still a way for giant organizations to do great work -- whatever "products" they deliver: the Parkland Way.READ»

GLOBALIZATION   |  Comment

One Man's Drive... One Company's Courage

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:40 AM

Anglo American is by far the dominant company in a proud country that is being ravaged by AIDS. Dr. Brian Brink made it his business to transform Anglo's approach to saving lives in South Africa -- even if it meant incurring the wrath of a government that prefers to look the other way. Meet the determined face of corporate citizenship.READ»

PHILANTHROPY   |  Comment

Pipe Dream?

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:45 AM

Rick Doblin has a prescription for fixing NIDA's ailing medical-marijuana program: establish an alternative.READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  2 comments

The Cannabis Conundrum

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:46 AM

As the founder of a British pharmaceutical company puts it, if it weren't called marijuana there would be an entire biotech business built around this plant. And that's just what's starting to happen (but not for the U.S. drug industry or the American patients these medicines might help).READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Fantastic Voyage

BY Scott Kirsner
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:47 AM

Cyberonics' medical implant is the size of a chocolate-chip cookie, and it could--could--be worth $2.8 billion someday. But as this dramatic tale of innovation and entrepreneurship shows, saving lives can be one tough business.READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  2 comments

The Thrill of Defeat

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:49 AM

Want to know how to motivate people to take on tough odds? Ask the folks in Pfizer's labs, where managing failure is a fine art and superhuman persistence an everyday habit.READ»

HEALTH CARE   |  Comment

Chatter

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:48 AM

Low-Carb Carnage.READ»

HEALTH CARE   |  1 comment

Sugar Shock

BY Melissa Korn
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:00 AM

It's 3 p.m. You're getting sleepy. Can the latest "super" snacks perk you up?READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  Comment

Miracle Microbes

BY Tonya Garcia
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:13 AM

Innovation: Synthetic malaria cure Available: 2009 In the labs of Amyris Biotechnologies, scientists are transferring genes from microbe to microbe. This molecular manipulation is the basis of synthetic biology, which ...READ»

GLOBALIZATION   |  4 comments

Mani Sivasubramanian: Spamming for Good

BY Josie Swindler
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:13 AM

Our distinctive typing patterns could prove the key to digital security.READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  Comment

Another Rubber Tree Plant

BY John Rosenthal
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:20 AM

In the Arizona desert, the start of something big--or anyway something that feels good on your hands.READ»

HEALTH CARE   |  Comment

Can CEOs Cure Cancer?

BY Tinker Ready
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:22 AM

Big Pharma execs may not know more about the disease than the rest of us, but a group of them are using their power to fight it.READ»

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Cease and De-Stress

BY Lauren Heist
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:32 AM

Studies suggest that lack of career control may cause more stress than long hours or work/life imbalanceREAD»

ONLINE BUSINESS   |  Comment

IV. Workplace Injuries in the Dotcom Environment

BY Gregory J. Pleshaw
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:33 AM

Serial typists and renegade programmers face some of the most grueling workplace health risks in the new economy. Sitting blurry-eyed and slump-backed in front of a computer screen all day is no longer the cushy gig reserved for ...READ»

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Is Your Boss Killing You?

BY Drew Armstrong
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:43 AM

New research suggests that employees who see their bosses as unfair may be at significantly greater risk for heart disease. Here's how to fight back.READ»

PERSONAL GROWTH   |  Comment

Cease and De-Stress

BY Lauren Heist
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:43 AM

Studies suggest that lack of career control may cause more stress than long hours or work/life imbalanceREAD»

HEALTHCARE   |  Comment

The State of Healthcare 2008

BY Matthew Kantz
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 11:23 AM

This is the first installment of the state of healthcare in the United States, which is a great time because with the primaries heating up, it's great to look at what our candidates are using as rhetoric for solving the health care ...READ»

HUMAN RESOURCES   |  2 comments

Stress Much?

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 9:28 AM

Doug Hall mentions an interesting DDB Needham Life Style Study that indicates that the number of people who feel that they are "under a great deal of pressure most of the time" has grown from 40% in 1975 to 72% in 1996. His advice ...READ»

CULTURE   |  10 comments

In Your Jeans

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Oct 4, 2004 at 12:47 PM

Workplace fashion update! This week Friday, October 8, is National Denim Day, a business-related opportunity to support the fight against breast cancer. For the last eight years, corporate employees across the country have been ...READ»

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