Background:
Cystic fibrosis is the most common fatal genetic disorder in the Caucasian population. Scoring systems for assessment of Cystic fibrosis disease severity have been used for almost 50 years, without being adapted to the milder phenotype of the disease in the 21st century. The aim of this current project is to develop a new scoring [...]

Backgrounds:
In Iran medical students are selected from high school graduates via a very competitive national
university entrance exam. New proposals have been seriously considered for admitting students from those with bachelor degrees. We assessed the opinions of different stakeholders on the current situation of admission into medicine in Iran, and their views on positive [...]

Benjamin Boukpeti: Picked up the first medal for Togo bronze in the men’s slalom kayak event but the French-born sportsman has only been to Togo once as a child to visit his paternal grandmother! According to Reuters, Boukpeti “only decided to compete for Togo when it became clear he was too old to make it [...]

Young kids light up like Christmas trees when their parents visit their school.  They are so proud of the work they do, their cubby where they keep their stuff, and the teacher they have come to love.  Parents can encourage that excitement about school if they continue their involvement in the life their child lives [...]

In February I wrote about scapegoating at work after noticing that the issue was coming up more and more with my coaching clients. It struck me that scapegoating had become a widespread and growing problem which was posing significant career implications for the victim.
What I hadn’t realised was just how endemic the [...]

Have you ever watched as a work colleague has been blamed, exposed or dismissed for the mistakes of their boss or colleague? What have been the effects on the individual and their colleagues? How has it been handled?
In my work as a coach, I am coming across more and more cases of corporate scapegoating, which [...]

I am speaking today at the FastForward conference in Orlando. I’m talking about analytics and how they relate to search, but I came early and caught Andy McAfee’s talk last night about Enterprise 2.0. As usual, Andy was articulate and perspicacious. He justifiably shifted the focus in his talk from praising the glories of E2.0 [...]

This post is based on the new book, Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes For Better Democracy, by John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz, now available from Harvard Business Press.
Marketing is often dismissed. CEOs and CFOs claim it isn’t rigorous. Consumer advocates find it deceptive and intrusive. Sociologists contend it encourages self-centered materialism. [...]

Lean Six Sigma Black Belts are most often referred to as Change Agents and there is no doubt that the Black Belt role is a leadership position within an organization. Black Belts are full-time Lean Six Sigma project team leaders responsible for implementing process improvement projects DMAIC (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) or DFLSS (Design for Lean Six Sigma) [...]