Word: brokenness
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...group set a common goal of getting in touch with their inner manager, a serious exercise in which strawberry roans, pintos and buckskins would be broken down into mere corporate tools. "I saw one of the founders of the Home Ranch work with a wild mustang a few years ago," recalled Mickey Connolly, co-founder and CEO of Conversant, whose clients include much of the FORTUNE 500. "The techniques he used to calm fear and replace it with trust and partnership struck me as crucially important to managers and executives. Horses and cattle are ideal to work with because they...
...there to get to here--all of us as a society. There's a framework under which this can be remediated and repaired. We don't need anyone's involvement other than the people who've been trespassed on. The tort system in this country is broken when in class actions, such as the silicone-breast-implant issue, a small number of trial lawyers can come in and claim 40% of the take in cases often based on bad science. The winners are the trial lawyers...
...health-care spending. That is, if they even offer health benefits. Thirty-nine percent of companies offer no medical benefits, up from 31% in 2000. About 60% of companies say they expect coverage to decrease. So it's not surprising that 80% of Americans polled say the system is broken. "Really all humanity has been stripped out," says Cathi Shaefer, a grocery clerk for the supermarket giant Safeway in Upland, Calif. "The care of people is getting a lot less attention than numbers...
...with a sardonic wink." In my book The Price of Privilege, I reported on disproportionately high rates of depression, anxiety and substance abuse among children of the wealthy, rates documented by leading social scientists and high enough to meet the Centers for Disease Control's definition of epidemic. A broken child is a broken child, no matter what the parents' financial resources...
...Patching the Safety Net A series of clinic visits by one patient made me realize just how broken the current health care system is ? and what can be done...