In some very energetic people's lives you see something like wing flutter, where they alternate between doing great work and doing absolutely nothing. Externally this would look a lot like bipolar disorder.

Paul Graham may be a genius. Lisa Haneberg is the first person who told me to 'flap my wings' at a SIPA meeting, my first time visiting Silicon Valley, in 2006.

How right she was about being aflutter...

Related to the difficulties of delivering on time and on budget are other promises that should never be taken at face value:

"We want you to be a change agent and shake things up."

Bosses and boards often espouse change as a desirable goal but less often embrace its implications — e.g., firing old hands, closing or selling historically-core assets, or challenging organizational assumptions. Officials generally like things stirred but not shaken (unlike James Bond's martini). So if you are told that you've been hired or assigned to shake things up in the interests of change, don't believe it — even if it's clear that a turnaround is necessary.

This promise tastes dust the minute controversy surfaces. Controversy is embarrassing, time-consuming, and takes eyes off the situation needing change and onto the personality of the change agent.

From: "Promises You Should Never Believe (or Make) - Rosabeth Moss Kanter - HarvardBusiness.org."

Before you try to 'shake things up,' always consider, deeply, realistically, your motivations for doing so.

Maybe the only change agents who actually change things leave organizations where they've found 'stirring' ineffective and start their own gig?

Open to commentology...

If you still think YouTube is just for those durned kids, you're really missing out. We at FierceHealthcare have decided to present seven of our favorite healthcare videos, with topics ranging from the serious (a critique of U.S. public health efforts in controlling H1N1) to the purely silly (an anesthesiologist singing about his duty to "sit and listen to the beep.") 

For their creativity, educational value and pure passion, we hereby deem these videos Fierce! Have fun checking them out; we certainly did.

 
 Diagnosis Wenckebach

 

 
 Bringin' Safety Back

 

 
 UAB Emergency Department Rap

 

 
 Breathe

 

 
 The Anesthetist's Hymn

 

 
 H1N1 Rap

 

 
 H1N1 Influenza Update Briefing

Next: Diagnosis Wenckebach

From: "7 YouTube Healthcare Videos Worth Watching - FierceHealthcare."

PS - Chad Hurley, sorry again for not recognizing you right off at TEDMED. All the jumping around must have jostled my brain pan...

Conventional expression of the Central Dogma of Molecule Biology:
(DNA ==>2X DNA) ==> RNA ==> Protein ==> Phenotype

Read the article, and look up Shapiro's paper, especially if you're interested in genomics, RNA World theory, genoanth.

In the US, Coca Cola has done a deal with the American Academy of Family Physicians new corporate membership program, enabling it to help “educate consumers about the role their products can play in a healthy, active lifestyle”.

The AAFP today announced a corporate partnership with The Coca-Cola Co., in which the beverage giant will provide a grant for the Academy to develop consumer education content related to beverages and sweeteners for the AAFP's award-winning consumer health and wellness Web site, FamilyDoctor.org.

From: "Does public health want to be best friends with soft drinks industry? – Croakey"

Sounds a lot like pharma partnerships (or former partnerships) with hospitals, docs' offices, and medical schools, no?

Also Navigenics partnering with BIDMC for genetics education? Check out the Onion style review of the move by Gene Sherpa here: http://thegenesherpa.blogspot.com/2009/10/follow-up-to-yesterdays-wtf-harvard.html
Bet #1:
Get ready to see MANY more partnerships of this type.

Bet #2:
mHealth developers will be in on this action within months (branded mobile campaigns/applications for partnerships like this).

Via @laikas on Twitter (great Saturday reading from Oz + NL).