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Technology bettering our lives also enables disease spread.
Author and Harvard University Business School professor Clayton Christensen writes that meeting the pace of change requires taking stock of your organization’s resources, processes and values. This accounting determines whether your organization is up to the challenge.
Critical to these three is values. This typically has an ethical connotation, but it is more than this – It aligns with decision-making, prioritizing, and alignment with strategic direction.
The management of disease in a growing global economy and the visible and unknown impacts of disease outbreaks becomes a value-based decision….and one that can impact the survival of humans and animals directly equal to or perhaps greater than other decisions that our organizations and governments must make Read More »
Increasingly, events such as the H1N1 outbreak and a lack of resources expose governments’ inability to implement comprehensive safety in a global economy. As trade expands, other organizations and companies must be prepared to self-govern to avoid calamities that extend beyond the existing governance structure. Starting from the edges and flowing upward, bottom-up leadership is part of the Read More »
Increasingly, events such as the H1N1 outbreak and a lack of resources expose governments’ inability to implement comprehensive safety in a global economy. As trade expands, other organizations and companies must be prepared to self-govern to avoid calamities that extend beyond the existing governance structure.
"Swine flu" is nothing of the sort, says the World Animal Health body on Monday, April 27th.
As it contains bird and animal components and no pig has been found ill, a more logical name would be one that's geographically-based.
"North American influenza" would be more logical, based on geographic origin just like Spanish influenza.
Already, fears about 'infected pigs' and pork-products are having drastic economic effects on the pork industry.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention make the following recommendations to stay healthy during the outbreak of swine flu:
- Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
- Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hands cleaners are also effective.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way.
- Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
- Influenza is thought to spread mainly person-to-person through coughing or sneezing of infected people.
- If you get sick, CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.
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