CARROT IS KNOWLEDGE NOT THE WHIP ... MEDIA WHIPS US INTO FALSE POSITIVES

CARROT IS KNOWLEDGE NOT THE WHIP ... MEDIA WHIPS US INTO FALSE POSITIVES. The power of knowledge is working on educating oneself.  The resources are immense.  With podcasts and blogs available along with news and print media education is at your fingertips.  Based on our personal motivation we can participate, even contribute.  When I started this podcast two years ago it seemed I was wasting my time without an audience.  But I have persevered.  It is the audience that decides whether my mind can contribute ideas and opinions that will assist others in dealing with their own Thoughts. I have decided to do own recording of the scripts more often. Some lend themselves to having it recorded in a professional voice but it lacks my passion and commitment to the solutions that I propose. Today I have attached two such recordings starting with the following format of the topics over the next few days, weeks and months. Problem: proposed solutions and outcome. Topics: always current problem events (such elections, environment, crime, drugs), Leadership, Corruption, Ghettos, Health Care, Monopsony, Monopoly, Globalization of trade, enterprise and peaceful coexistence, Capitalism, Socialism, Marriage of Investor Capital and Human Capital called humanism, Stakeholders and Shareholders, Third party swing vote platform, Quasi reorganization of America, Results of an American Offensive Plan(s), China Capitalism, Russian Capitalism, NBA, NFL, MLB, Soccer role in international trade, and peaceful coexistence (premise that an NBA team in China and North Korea may be a way to compete not fight). Today’s topic Carrot is knowledge not the whip (the story of Death Valley) making something horrible great. So, I am proposing an invention of a “new wheel” from real life  experiences. It is based on my first experience at managing a nursing  home. This home was portrayed as the Death Valley Nursing Center  (coined by the surveyors who wanted it closed) and was on the verge  of bankruptcy when I took it on. In addition to being decertified, it  did not have sufficient cash to pay the bills due to shrinking occupancy,  mismanagement of staffing, cash flow problems and operating losses. Sounds somewhat familiar, doesn’t it? In the first six months, things did not get much better. We had a  drowning in the whirlpool when an agency therapist left a patient alone  in the tub. Then the air-conditioning system went down in August of  1987 during a heat wave. During this time, the state Department of  Public Health openly indicated they wanted the facility closed.  Then in  November 1987, a snowstorm closed the access to the facility (a 206-bed  skilled nursing facility) for seventy-two straight hours. As a result, only  one-half of the staff reported to work. During that time, the delivery  of care was better and more efficient than with a full complement of  workers. Each time I tell this story, everyone nods and attributes the  phenomenon to adrenaline This reminds me of the story of  four people in the nursing home business. They were named Everybody,  Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be  done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody  would do it. Somebody got angry with that because it was Everybody’s  HEALTH CARE FOR ALL: SHIFT the paradigm from INCOME to OUTCOME for the greater good 204 job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that  Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody  when Nobody did what Anybody could have done. For example, not everyone  did baths. Only two did baths and others did their specific assigned  function, not a little bit of everything. From this formula the staff began to organize themselves into team objectives and outcomes