Notes #130: Stop Judging Decisions by Their Outcomes
Where has your organization mistaken a design problem for a resource problem? I’d like to hear about it.
Notes #129: Sometimes the Program Isn’t Broken. The Path to It Is.
Where has your organization mistaken a design problem for a resource problem? I’d like to hear about it.
The Cancer Treatments Hiding in Plain Sight
There is a strange injustice sitting on pharmacy shelves. Some of the drugs there, already approved, already cheap, may hold real power against cancer. Not after another decade of trials. Now. The evidence often already exists. What doesn’t exist is anyone with a financial reason to bring it forward.
My guest built her organization to close that gap. Dr. Laura Kleiman ran a data science center at Dana-Farber when her own mother was diagnosed with cancer there, and kept finding promising research on existing drugs that no company had any incentive to pursue.
Here is how she frames the problem:
It’s Dr. Laura Kleiman, Founder and CEO of Reboot Rx, on The Business of Giving.
Notes #128: The Money Comes Back. The System Doesn’t.
Has your organization ever lived through a funding freeze or pause? What actually came back, and what didn’t? I’d like to hear it.
Notes #127: The Cause Isn’t the Problem. The Missing Middle Step Is.
Think about a cause you believe in. Can you name, in one sentence, the actual thing it’s asking someone to do? Tell me what’s getting in the way if you can’t.