Telemedicine + Urgent Care + Brain Map + Robot Humor + Automation

Telemedicine + urgent care use on the rise: STAT reports, a new white paper released today from the nonprofit FAIR Health looked at medical pricing and other health care trends from 2012 to 2017 and found that people in the US used more telehealth services and urgent care centers in 2017 than during the previous year. Here’s a closer look at the report’s findings:

Telehealth: Use of telemedicine services grew nationally by 53 percent between 2016 and 2017, with 55 percent growth in urban areas and 29 percent growth in rural areas. Oklahoma had the most telehealth usage, New Jersey the least.

Urgent care centers: The use of urgent care centers in urban areas increased by 15 percent in 2017 compared to 2016, while staying the same in rural areas. The average price per 30-minute visit was most expensive for urgent care centers, at $213, compared to $207 in a doctor’s office and $129 in a retail clinic.

Goals and rewards redraw the brain’s map of the world: Two new studies show that the brain’s navigation system changes how it represents physical space to reflect personal experience. http://bit.ly/2JW6EYq

A robot walks into a bar, doesn’t get the joke: struggling to teach humor to AI https://lat.ms/2JYRilK

Japan's big banks to slash hiring of new graduates in 2020 due to automation: Japan Times, major lender MUFG Bank plans to hire only 530 new graduates next April, down about 45 percent from this year, according to informed sources. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and Mizuho Financial Group Inc. also plan to slash their hiring of new graduates.

Thought leadership: Introverts wanted

Thought leadership: Introverts wanted

Here's the big idea = Going forward, thought leadership and idea amplification is the process to shape globalization, disruption, and politics.

From my experience, most people over-index on tactics and vanity metrics and fail on strategy and organization.

From my experience, not engaging, not sharing, and not playing doesn't make the difference.

If you want to start a business, win a campaign, or change a culture, you can't do it from the sidelines.

Like the lottery, you got to be in it to win it.

Just this week, rising Democrat star and potential national candidate Stacey Abrams on The View told the audience, "I am an introvert. I don't like public stuff."

Imagine that.

An introvert.

A leader who has served as Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, was her party's nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, and in February 2019, became the first African-American woman to deliver a response to the State of the Union address.

Imagine that.

An introvert.

Abrams went on to tell the audience she is self-aware, recognizes the fear, and take steps to "hack opportunity."

She closed powerfully by saying, "In politics, they will never elect you if they never hear from you. You can't secretly run for president, or governor, or school board."

A good reminder from even one of the most talented politicians amongst us.

You got to be in it to win it.

- Marc

Marc A. Ross is the founder of Brigadoon and specializes in thought leader strategy and idea amplification for executives and entrepreneurs working at the intersection of globalization, disruption, and politics.

Introvert, Fail, Legendary, Cool, Curiosity

Introvert, Fail, Legendary, Cool, Curiosity

Brigadoon Weekly
March 31, 2019
Curation and commentary from Marc A. Ross

Reporting from Alexandria, Virginia 

Brigadoon Weekly  = Global Emerging Issues

ROSS RANT

Thought leadership: Introverts wanted

Here's the big idea = Going forward, thought leadership and idea amplification is the process to shape globalization, disruption, and politics.

From my experience, most people over-index on tactics and vanity metrics and fail on strategy and organization.

From my experience, not engaging, not sharing, and not playing doesn't make the difference.

If you want to start a business, win a campaign, or change a culture, you can't do it from the sidelines.

Like the lottery, you got to be in it to win it.

Just this week, rising Democrat star and potential national candidate Stacey Abrams on The View told the audience, "I am an introvert. I don't like public stuff."

Imagine that.

An introvert.

A leader who has served as Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, was her party's nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, and in February 2019, became the first African-American woman to deliver a response to the State of the Union address.

Imagine that.

An introvert.

Abrams went on to tell the audience she is self-aware, recognizes the fear, and take steps to "hack opportunity."

She closed powerfully by saying, "In politics, they will never elect you if they never hear from you. You can't secretly run for president, or governor, or school board."

A good reminder from even one of the most talented politicians amongst us.

You got to be in it to win it.

- Marc

Marc A. Ross is the founder of Brigadoon and specializes in thought leader strategy and idea amplification for executives and entrepreneurs working at the intersection of globalization, disruption, and politics.

FIVE TO READ

10 reasons why you fail http://bit.ly/2JM2Clp

Can Amazon reinvent the traditional supermarket? Amazon’s plans to launch physical grocery stores this year is just the latest affirmation that, ironically, bricks-and-mortar stores are crucial to the e-commerce giant’s future growth. Amazon may launch as many as 2,000 supermarkets in major U.S. cities, according to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal. It will be Amazon’s sixth physical retail format after Whole Foods, Amazon Books, Amazon Go, Amazon 4-Star and Amazon Pop-Up. https://whr.tn/2JNJPpU

Whatever retail store format Amazon uses, it “would be built upon this tremendous capacity they have to gather, analyze, understand and use what customers are saying to them every day,” said Mark Cohen, director of retail studies at Columbia University who had been CEO of Sears Canada. “Amazon is proof-positive of the value of big data and the way in which you collect it and the way in which you examine it and use it.”

30 legendary startup pitch decks and what you can learn from them http://bit.ly/2SMNA2C

Squaring up: How Insta-fashion is changing the way we shop: Instagram has become the window display for a new generation of savvy shoppers – and it’s changing the way we consume style, for good and bad. Leah Harper of The Guardian meets some of the pioneers at the forefront of Insta-fashion. http://bit.ly/2JQPpHX

Adam Grant: Why behavioral economics is cool, and I’m not.The boundaries between economics and psychology. http://bit.ly/2JU56hH 

BRIGADOON RADIO

Brigadoon Radio: Episode 5: The power of curiosity: Recorded at the Screening Room at Sundance Film Institute, Dr. Mark Stellingworth speaks with Catie Hargrove at Brigadoon Sundance 2019.

Catie is a 4x Brigadoon Sundance participant and for 2019 lead a whiteboard session on what she has learned in her nearly 20 years of management consulting and the need for more leaders to embrace curiosity as the tool to greatness. 

Catie is an executive coach, speaker, and author and you can find her on LinkedIn.

Brigadoon Radio: Episode 6: John Wick Republican: Recorded Pinehaven House at Sundance Mountain Resort, Dr. Mark Stellingworth speaks with Chad Munitz during Brigadoon Sundance 2019.

Chad is a 5x Brigadoon Sundance participant and has served as a Brigadoon Ambassador and co-host for Brigadoon Cincinnati 2019. Chad and Mark discussed the vision of Brigadoon, building a vinyl album collection, and comic books as art.

Chad is Vice President of Development at Towne Properties and you can find him on LinkedIn.

You can listen to both broadcasts - here.

Yes, Henry David Thoreau Was an Industrial Innovator

For years, nobody in America made pencils better, and young Henry deserves much of the credit. His story isn’t just emblematic of 19th-century Yankee know-how. It also offers important lessons for business leaders today. For example: Imports spurred American firms to improve their products, to the benefit of American consumers and entrepreneurs alike.

The importance of innovation is almost too obvious to mention. But here’s a lesson that may be less apparent: Liberal arts graduates can be great at business. Thoreau was no STEM major. He was steeped in Greek, Roman, and Asian philosophy, as well as later thinkers including Descartes, Locke, Emerson, Coleridge, and Darwin. Thoreau’s story is instructive, Henry Petroski tells us in The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance, “because it is a reminder that innovative and creative engineering was done by those who were interested in a wide variety of subjects beyond the technical. Whether or not they had college degrees, influential early-nineteenth-century engineers could be a literate lot, mixing freely with the most prominent contemporary writers, artists, scientists, and politicians. And this interaction hardened rather than softened the ability of the engineers to solve tough engineering problems.”

By Daniel Akst: Yes, Henry David Thoreau was an industrial innovator. Read the full post - here.