Chapter 5 - Extra Readings

Two Football Coaches Have a Lot to Teach Screaming Managers

Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith are great motivators. Both understand what each motivates each of their players. I would think that they are both surround themselves with Theory Y people. I don’t think that they would be very successful coaching players that were Theory X people. As for coaches and CEO's and bosses that still think yelling at and belittling employees is the way to maintain control and show their own power over others, are dinosaurs. They are a dying breed, that have become a liability to company's, no matter how good they are at the other aspects of their job.

Get Healthy - Or Else

This is an interesting article to me because I currently working on alternatives for my companies health insurance. Over the last 5 years, annual increases of +20% have basically made supplying insurance for my 150 employee unaffordable for most of them to even pay the 25% pro rata share of the month premiums, and for the few people that do purchases it, the costs are increasing 51% this year. We are at a loss for what to do about it. We are exploring several options, but the fact of the matter is, its going to be so costly, that we expect several more employees to decline coverage this year.

As for Scott Miracle-Gro and their CEO Jim Hagedorn, there wellness program has a ton of holes in it. The intrusion and heavy handedness of the program is what would concern me. If I was to try to introduce this program into my company, I think I would base it on an exclusively award system, versus an punishment for not quitting smoking. In stead of insurance costing people 40 or 60 or even 100 more if you don’t participate in the wellness program, it should be that your insurance premium would be reduced by 40-100 for participating in the program.

Jesica's Story

I think the culture of Duke University Medical Center and the other hospitals an other organ harvester companies are more of time is of the up most importance in these time of operations, where they need to get the organs harvested, and then transported, and then placed in the transplant patient. Corners were being cut due to the implied urgency of the operates, and that falls on the surgeons and the management of the hospitals and harvesters. The liabilities on that this type of behavior promotes, is huge, and risk analysts, managers, and surgeons should of be more in touch with the dangers. I don’t think all the blame falls on the Jagger, but the whole system set up needs to be changed in order minor over sights turning into major problems.