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Andrew Hill: Recovery began before the fire ended
On Aug. 5, I received a call from a child trying to help her mother. Their home had burned in the Old Trails fire. Her mother was waiting for resources. Her children and pets were staying in their car. She was not calling with a policy question. She was not calling to talk about emergency systems or recovery frameworks. She was trying to help her family figure out what to do next. That is where recovery actually begins. Not when the fire is fully contained. Not when the evacuation map changes.
Health costs of the UK-US trade deal on pharmaceuticals
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Commentary: Can anyone replicate Warren Buffett’s performance? Original
LONDON: If Warren Buffett is to be believed, his announcement after Saturday’s (May 3) annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway that he plans to step down as chief executive at the end of the year was news to all but a few close members of his family. Neither non-family directors, nor the tens of thousands of shareholders assembled at the annual “Woodstock for capitalists” in his native Omaha had an inkling about the precise timing. They probably should have done.
A fixation on ‘clean eating’ can be harmful - and perfectionists may be at greater risk of taking it too far Original
Clean eating diets have become increasingly popular over the past few years. This style of eating emphasises consuming whole foods and avoiding processed foods (even minimally processed foods) as much as possible. Given how important diet is for our health, we might assume that the better your diet is, the better your health will be. But as one clean eating influencer has revealed, being too restrictive with your diet can have the opposite effect on your health.
Enhanced recovery after surgery: an update for the generalist
General surgery has evolved almost beyond recognition over the past 50 years. While always a technical discipline, major advances in surgical technology have been made. Along with these technical advances there have been concomitant major changes in peri‐operative care. The art and science of peri‐operative care has almost become a specialty in itself, with surgeons, anaesthetists, medical specialists, and nurses and others working together to optimise this process.
Hazard Perception Skill and Driver Behavior in Patients With Functional Neurologic Disorders
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Hazard Perception Skill and Driver Behavior in Patients With Functional Neurologic Disorders
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Commentary: Reimagining offices as borders between work and play blur
Trending Topics Pakistan Ukraine invasion North Korea Indonesia football match stampede Malaysian elections GE15 climate change COVID-19 Malaysia CNA Explains Wellness Commentary COVID-19 changed our approach to the office but bold thinking is needed to secure its future, says Andrew Hill for the Financial Times.
Commentary: How to avoid conflict of interests when accepting corporate gifts and free meals
LONDON: Before her first ward-round as a junior doctor, Sunita Sah watched as the consultant leading the group stuffed his pockets with branded pens and notepads from a hospital cart piled with drug company freebies. Noting her astonishment, he remarked, “these are the only perks of the job”, and continued to stock up. “I couldn’t help but think: ‘What’s the end-effect of this?’” Sah told me.
Perfectionism can harm even the most talented student – but schools can make a difference
Perfectionism can have a significant impact on wellbeing. Dedicated lessons focusing on coping with all the aspects of perfectionism could greatly benefit students. There is a belief that intervention by teachers and schools could be pivotal in preventing difficulties with perfectionism before they arise, with the use of practical approaches. Depending on the circumstances, perfectionism can lead to better performance in school or at work. Or it can make performance worse.
Perfectionism can harm even the most talented student, but schools can make a difference
Credit: Prostock-studio/Shutterstock Depending on the circumstances, perfectionism can lead to better performance in school or at work. Or it can make performance worse. But any performance gains are likely to be outweighed by wellbeing issues. There are links between perfectionism and burnout and depression, for example. Evidence for these types of negative effects has been found in a range of settings, including among young people for whom perfectionism is a vulnerability factor for mental health.
Commentary: Why is it harder to focus at work and get things done these days?
Advertisement Commentary We perform at our best in a focused state of concentration — called "flow" — but it takes hard work to get there, says the Financial Times’ Andrew Hill. (Photo: iStock/Cecilie_Arcurs) 01 Nov 2021 05:46PM (Updated: 01 Nov 2021 05:46PM) LONDON: “The universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind. It is almost immeasurably huge, and most of it is hostilely empty and cold.” This is an unlikely prelude to a book about happiness.
Wie Sie Ihr Team durch stressige Phasen führen
Foto: Bob Krist / Getty Images Um erfolgreich zu sein – und es auch zu bleiben – stellen viele Unternehmen höchste Anforderungen an ihre Teams. So sind weltbekannte Investmentbanken, Anwaltskanzleien und Beratungsunternehmen dafür berüchtigt, ihren Mitarbeitern lange, zermürbende Arbeitstage zuzumuten. Softwareentwickler verwenden das Wort "Crunch", um die langen und stressigen Arbeitsstunden zu beschreiben, die oft in den letzten Wochen vor Produkteinführung anfallen.
Commentary: Workers only return to office for the friendships and fellowship
Commentary Commentary Persuading staff to return to the office, without sacrificing the inclusivity of Zoom and the advantages of working from home, is hard, says the Financial Times’ Andrew Hill. Office worker heading to work.
Potential approaches for the pricing of cancer medicines across Europe to enhance the sustainability of healthcare systems and the implications
Brian Godmana Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden;b Division of Pharmacoepidemiology, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK;c Division of Public Health Pharmacy and Management, School of Pharmacy, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria, South Africa;d School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang,...
Commentary: Donald Trump and how not to leave high office graciously
LONDON: For a powerful leader, there are few adjectives more deadening than “outgoing”. Not in the sense of being extrovert or party-loving, but meaning “soon to depart”, heading for the door — over, but not yet out. Advertisement Advertisement Donald Trump, outgoing US president, is feeling the chill already. Defeated or departing presidents have to endure an extended spell in purgatory — nearly 80 days in Mr Trump’s case — from Election Day to the inauguration of their successors.
Important Questions to Ask at the End of Interviews to Find the Right Job
Too often people come to the end of an interview and are asked “Do you have any questions for me?” and they give answers like “No, I think I am good.” While it may seem like an unimportant step on the surface, the candidate question portion is one of the most important parts of an interview which shouldn’t be skipped over. I can understand why people do though. It’s the end of the interview and you can get emotionally exhausted.
What we can all do to help identify and prevent burnout among nurses
As COVID-19 increases the pressures on nurses, we must look out for colleagues and ourselves The COVID-19 pandemic is placing unprecedented demands on nurses and nursing students. As they try to cope with the situation, the increased stress puts them at high risk of burnout. This is especially the case for newly qualified nurses or students who may be less familiar with the demands of the job.
Dr. Andrew Hill Archives | Bottom Line Inc
Andrew Hill ANDREW HILL, PHD is the founding director and lead neurotherapist at Peak Brain Institute in Culver City, California He holds a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from UCLA’s department of psychology and continues to do research on attention and cognition. He has been practicing neurofeedback since 2003.
Commentary: Christmas shopping has changed over the years - with more power to the shopper
LONDON: For years, if you were out doing your last-minute Christmas shopping, retailers and marketers treated you as a helpless speck they could drag inexorably into a sinister-sounding “purchasing funnel”. The analogy is attributed to an early marketing guru called Elias St Elmo Lewis.
How do you decide who gets the chop in a professional services firm?
Herbalife Says KPMG Resigns as Auditor Amid Trading Allegations…A pedestrian walks past the offices for the accounting firm KPMG LLP in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 9, 2013. KPMG LLP resigned as the auditor for two companies and fired the partner overseeing its Los Angeles audit practice amid allegations the person leaked confidential client information to a third party who used it to make stock trades. Photographer: Patrick T.
A Nobel for managers? Being bossy won't cut it
BL PREMIUM 20 October 2019 - 00:04 ANDREW HILL Alfred Nobel helped build an industrial empire. He amassed a fortune that funded the famous prizes. But management "wasn't one of his priority areas of interest", according to Ingrid Carlberg, author of a new biography of the man. While Nobel's bequest established prizes that commemorate his love of literature and science, it seems unlikely he would ever have considered rewarding managers in the same way.
A Nobel for managers? Being bossy won't cut it
20 October 2019 - 00:04 By ANDREW HILL Alfred Nobel helped build an industrial empire. He amassed a fortune that funded the famous prizes. But management "wasn't one of his priority areas of interest", according to Ingrid Carlberg, author of a new biography of the man. While Nobel's bequest established prizes that commemorate his love of literature and science, it seems unlikely he would ever have considered rewarding managers in the same way.
Commentary: Should you cry at work? Answers to some very personal work life questions
LONDON: “I often feel like an emotional washing machine,” said one manager I met recently. Here is one vital job leaders do, whether they like it or not: Take a tangled load of emotions from team members and run them through a cycle so staff can return, rinsed and refreshed, to the task in hand. Advertisement Advertisement MANAGERS WITH EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT Sometimes, though, managers still handle that job like a machine — and it is the staff who get hung out to dry.
Commentary: Do you manage upwards well? Do you say no to your boss?
LONDON: When boats carrying thousands of seasick soldiers were sent back to port on June 5, 1944, many troops had good reason to curse the Allied generals who had delayed the D-Day landings by 24 hours because of bad weather. Those who survived the first assault must have griped about the decisions of their superiors, as they fought their way bloodily down the Normandy peninsula in the weeks that followed. Advertisement Advertisement At least their purpose was clear.
A Screening Programme for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm and Atrial Fibrillation in Māori: An Equity-Focused Initiative in Auckland
Embedding Aboriginal Ways of Being and Doing Into Health
Commentary: Shut up and get lost - advice for outgoing chief executives
LONDON: Alex Ferguson, former manager of Manchester United, once offered this universal truth about how to behave towards a successor: It is unfair ... to try and retain the authority you once possessed. You have to let go and let the new man and the new regime do what they think is best. Advertisement Sir Alex was being rather disingenuous. After David Moyes took over from him in 2013, the legendary coach stayed on as a club director.
Commentary: China's protest against long working hours is so old-fashioned
LONDON: My first reaction to Chinese technology workers’ protests about long working hours was: How quaint. My second: How old-fashioned. The “anti-996” campaign is blacklisting companies such as Alibaba and JD.com where, it claims, shifts of 9am to 9pm, six days a week, are common. Alibaba has not commented. JD.com said it did not oblige staff to work such hours but it encouraged everyone to “fully invest themselves”.
Commentary: The untold trade-off as a freelancer, when work is not work but 'opportunity'
LONDON: In 2008, Jess Varnish, then a 17-year-old cyclist, told the Birmingham Mail she was training six days a week, twice a day. It was “more than just a hobby”, she said. More than a hobby, but not quite work, according to an employment tribunal judgment last week. Advertisement Ms Varnish, who went on to compete at the highest level for the British team, had argued she was an employee or worker at the organisations that fund and run elite cycling.
Commentary: Favouritism an office vice that will never disappear
LONDON: In The Favourite, the award-winning film set in the reign of Queen Anne, the decisive shift in the British monarch’s patronage is summed up in one glorious line, spoken by Emma Stone’s Abigail Masham as she confirms the banishment of her rival, the Duchess of Marlborough: All I know is your carriage awaits and my maid is on her way up with something called a pineapple. Advertisement Rarely have office politics been so wittily and decoratively exposed.
Commentary: How the other shoe dropped, the collapse of one indoor slipper empire
LONDON: Among many marketing gambits, Mahabis, once-ubiquitous purveyor of upmarket slippers, linked up with publisher Penguin last year to pair its comfy footwear with a randomly selected Modern Classic paperback. Someone may, therefore, have received for Christmas some pricey new slip-ons and Samuel Beckett’s grim tale The End. Unlike the drawn-out fate of Beckett’s narrator, though, Mahabis’ nemesis came suddenly.
Commentary: Should you get to decide what you are paid?
LONDON: If you work for Makers, a small London-based software engineering boot camp founded in 2012, everyone will know what you are paid. Makers asks its employees to set their own salaries instead of entering the traditional — the company calls it “adversarial” — negotiation with their manager. Advertisement Staff are invited to think about what they are worth, researching the market and discussing their role and performance with close colleagues.
ADHD: Nature vs. Nurture...and Then What?
Andrew Hill ANDREW HILL, PHD is the founding director and lead neurotherapist at Peak Brain Institute in Culver City, California He holds a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from UCLA’s department of psychology and continues to do research on attention and cognition. He has been practicing neurofeedback since 2003.
Oral curcumin in elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: a multicentre randomized controlled trial
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Do we really need consultants when most of the world rarely use them?
There are other ways of gaining expertise than developing an addiction to consulting, says one author. LONDON: They say you are never more than six feet from a rat. Similarly, it often seems as though every other executive is a management consultant, an ex-consultant, or a consultancy client. The ubiquity of rattus norvegicus is almost certainly overstated. So with consultants: How familiar you are with the breed and its habits depends where you are standing. Consulting is remarkably concentrated.
Commentary: Prepare to tell long-serving bosses their time is up
There comes a time when almost every leader starts to become complacent, says one observer at the Financial Times. LONDON: You should be able to divide any list of chief executives into three categories - the indispensable, the interchangeable and the irredeemable. The past week has provided examples of all three.
Commentary: Why millennials are uncovering tattoos at work
Evidence seems to be growing that body art is not as much of a hurdle to employment as it was once thought to be, says one observer from the Financial Times. LONDON: My amateur tip to would-be entrepreneurs used to be this - invest in tattoo-removal parlours. In 2015, nearly half of US millennials owned up to a tattoo, as did 30 per cent of Britons of similar age.
Perfectionism Is Increasing, and That's Not Good News
According to the World Health Organization, a record number of young people worldwide are suffering from serious depression or anxiety disorders.
Physical Fitness Is the Foundation of High Performance.
Peak performance in business has often been presented as a matter of sheer brainpower, but we view performance as a pyramid. Physical well-being is its foundation. Above that rests emotional health, then mental acuity, and at the top, a sense of purpose. The Ideal Performance State—peak performance under pressure—is achieved when all levels are working together. Rituals that promote oscillation—the rhythmic expenditure and recovery of energy—link the levels of the pyramid.
Third-wave cognitive behaviour therapies for weight management: systematic review and network meta-analysis protocol
It is anticipated that many papers will not provide sufficient details on all variables of interest, and we will be reliant on communication with corresponding authors for additional information.
Commentary: Get rid of middle managers? Do so at your own peril.
Success rests on what employees know rather than where they sit in the hierarchy, says one observer at the Financial Times. LONDON: Elon Musk called it a “reorg” but otherwise the Tesla chief executive’s recent email promising a leadership shake-up was straight from the 1980s. “We are flattening the management structure to improve communication, combining functions where sensible and trimming activities that are not vital to the success of our mission,” the electric car entrepreneur told staff.
Commentary: Why groupthink never went away
Our capacity for flawed decision-making is unchanged, and possibly worsened by a reliance on data and customer surveys, says one observer from the Financial Times. LONDON: The psychologist who did most to publicise the theory of groupthink would have turned 100 this month.
Commentary: Facebook’s floundering response to scandal is part of the problem
As the Cambridge Analytica storm worsens, Mark Zuckerberg must lead from the front, says one observer from the Financial Times. SINGAPORE: One piece of received wisdom about Facebook is that the social media group knows precisely what it is doing with our personal data and its motives are dubious.
Perfectionism Is Increasing, and That’s Not Good News
According to the World Health Organization, a record number of young people worldwide are suffering from serious depression or anxiety disorders.
Commentary: Why you should promise to do less this year
People typically resolve to accomplish more goals at the start of each year but burying yourself in workaholism muddles your focus, says the Financial Times’ Andrew Hill. LONDON: Typically, people start a new year resolved to achieve more than the previous year. How, though? Some people make what I have always thought is a frankly strange commitment to “say yes to everything”. Others do the opposite, resolving to say no more frequently. In reality, either of those extremes could lead to bad outcomes.
Perfectionism has become a hidden epidemic among young people
In our roles as academics, young people knock on our doors almost every day. They are typically ambitious, bright and hard-working. They have a broad network of friends, and most come from supportive families. Yet no matter how well-adjusted they can appear, we are finding that our students are increasingly likely to seek our support for mental health issues, as well as academic ones. We are not alone in observing this trend. Student mental illness on UK campuses is at record highs.
The rise of perfectionism is negatively affecting young people
In our roles as academics, young people knock on our doors almost every day. They are typically ambitious, bright and hard-working. They have a broad network of friends, and most come from supportive families. Yet no matter how well-adjusted they can appear, we are finding that our students are increasingly likely to seek our support for mental health issues, as well as academic ones. We are not alone in observing this trend. Student mental illness on UK campuses is at record highs.
The hidden epidemic of perfectionism in millennials
Thomas Curran is assistant professor at University of Bath; Andrew Hill is head of taught postgraduate programmes at York St John University In our roles as academics, young people knock on our doors almost every day. They are typically ambitious, bright and hard-working. They have a broad network of friends, and most come from supportive families.
Pair socks from a pile efficiently?
I hope I can contribute something new to this problem. I noticed that all of the answers neglect the fact that there are two points where you can perform preprocessing, without slowing down your overall laundry performance. Also, we don't need to assume a large number of socks, even for large families. Socks are taken out of the drawer and are worn, and then are tossed in a place (maybe a bin) where they stay before being laundered.
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