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Renaissance for Leaders | Passionate Revolutionaries GROUP

[Feb 23, 2009] - We have set up a common interest facebook GROUP for people interested in inspiring others to create innovative products, services and business models that add meaning and purpose to peoples everyday lives.

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Healthcare Costs Prevented Nearly 40 Million Americans From Filling Their Prescriptions in 2008

[Dec 17, 2008] - Nearly 40 million U.S. adults decided not to fill a prescription medication from a doctor in the past year because of the cost, according to pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research's Cybercitizen Health(TM) v8.0 consumer study and strategic advisory service. The study found that women and patients with neurological and mental health conditions were the most likely to give up their medication due to cost.

- PRNewswire

Don't Like Your Boss?

[Nov 3, 2008] - According to a 2008 Yahoo survey, 43% of Americans don't like their bosses' management styles while 55% agree that "people don't leave companies, they leave managers".

- Fast Company

What Becomes

[Apr 1, 2008] - Your beliefs become your thoughts
Your thoughts become your words
Your words become your actions
Your actions become your habits
Your habits become your values
Your values become your destiny

- Mahatma Gandhi

Measuring Satisfaction

[Mar 3, 2008] - A new study shows that people in wealthier countries are more likely to be satisfied with their lives. Earlier research had suggested that satisfaction did not necessarily increase once basic needs were met.

- New York Times

Stop Managing and Start Leading

[Oct 2, 2007] - People don't want to be managed. They want to be led. Whoever heard of a world manager? World leader, yes. Educational leader. Political leader. Religious leader. Scout leader. Community leader. Labor leader. Business leader. They lead. They don't manage. The carrot always wins over the stick. Ask your horse. You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink. If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.

- As published in the Wall Street Journal by United Technologies Corporation

The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease

[Oct 1, 2007] - More than half of Americans suffer from one or more chronic diseases. Each year millions of people are diagnosed with chronic disease, and millions more die from their condition. By our calculations, the most common chronic diseases are costing the economy more than $1 trillion annually - and that figure threatens to reach $6 trillion by the middle of the century.

Yet much of this cost is avoidable. This failure to contain the containable is undermining prospects for extending health insurance coverage and for coping with the medical costs of an aging population. The rising rate of chronic disease is a crucial but frequently ignored contributor to growth in medical expenditures.

- An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease -courtesy of Milken Institute

Think for Yourself

[Sep 5, 2007] - When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen carefully and with respect - but do not believe him. Never put your trust in anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate, may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical - always think for yourself. There are, of course, exceptional circumstances: when you are taking an examination, it is smart to answer the questions not by saying what you think is right, but rather what you think the professor thinks is right.

- Linus Pauling (1901-1994), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954, Nobel Peace Prize 1962

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