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...What the Fancy Machines Can - And Can't - Do New medical technology can probe, scan and make sophisticated diagnoses. But it's up to the body to cure...
...Hers is actually a very common set of symptoms - you would think we had the cure. But we have little that really works well for spinal stenosis. Even the practical, surgical approach - "just get in there with some good steel tools and make those passages bigger" - doesn't always seem to make the pain go away...
...what's the real key? Although each of these experts proffers a different cure for a different ill, the substance of what they do overlaps. Generally, they agree that unfair or badly communicated management decisions create a workforce rife with anxiety, anger and rumormongering. "I would be very cautious about anyone viewing one factor as a key to what ails all organizations," warns Wharton management professor Sigal Barsade. "Life and organizational life are a complex network, very multicausal...
Those who work from the top down stand the greatest chance of effecting a systemic cure, experts agree. Nevertheless, Barsade observes, if a consultant addresses a small issue like gossip, it can make a difference. "It doesn't have to be systemwide to have an effect," she says, "or to change people's lives...
Sure. But promising a nice paint job isn't the same as claiming to cure cancer. In 1997, Utah-based Nu Skin paid $1.5 million to the Federal Trade Commission, which monitors advertising claims, for five products it said could reduce fat and build muscle. Before that, the company was accused of making unsubstantiated claims about a baldness treatment and a wrinkle lotion. Packaging for many Nu Skin products (and those from sister company Pharmanex) now carries an array of disclaimer asterisks...