by Tom Peterson | Jan 28, 2016 | About Stakeholder Health, Stakeholder Health Reflection
By Tom Peterson Inspired in 2002 by frequent blackouts, Brazilian mechanic Alfredo Moser (pictured) thought up a simple technology that’s literally a brilliant idea. Just fill a clear plastic soda bottle with water (add bleach to prevent algae clouding), cut a hole...
by Tom Peterson | Jan 20, 2016 | Stakeholder Health Reflection
By Tom Peterson In 1973 Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber, two U.C., Berkeley professors, published a paper describing Wicked Problems. They said that the traditional scientific approach doesn’t work in solving social problems. Problem solving in the industrial age...
by Tom Peterson | Oct 19, 2015 | Stakeholder Health Reflection, Stakeholder Health Resources
What is happening next? So many people with an MPH, MBA, MHA, or Mdiv have their heads down working hard to do the next right things in regard to the Affordable Care Act. What do we do next? Sign up people in the exchanges? Expand Medicaid? Hire a...
by Tom Peterson | Sep 29, 2015 | Stakeholder Health Reflection
By Gary Gunderson While the Pope was doing his best to tend to America’s soul, the leadership of Stakeholder Health was working in Chicago, where the FaithHealth movement was born, reborn and reborn many times, with another FaithHealth infant in...
by Tom Peterson | Sep 10, 2015 | Stakeholder Health Reflection
By Gary Gunderson You can learn a lot crawling on the floor with a nine-month old about how we humans learn. Charlie (okay, grandson “Charles Isaac Gunderson Wolfe”) approaches everything with hands-on curiosity—full-body tactile learning. He...
by Tom Peterson | Jun 30, 2015 | Stakeholder Health Reflection, Stakeholder Health Resources
By Arvind Singhal On April 15-16, 2015, the practice of liberating structures (LS) came to the White House. The occasion: A two-day working meeting on the topic, Partners in Health: Aligning Clinical Systems, Faith and Community Assets. Some...