What makes a great leader? Is it skill? Expertise? Education? IQ? Actually, according to author Dan Goleman, all the greatest leaders do have one thing in common: emotional intelligence. The phrase, “emotional intelligence” first came to light in a research paper by psychology professors, John D. Mayer and Peter Salovey, in 1990. Dan Goleman then […]
The Case for Providing Dialysis in Nursing Homes
Kidney failure is a covert crisis in the United States. In 2018, 786,000 Americans were living with end-stage renal disease (ESRD for short), costing $49 billion in Medicare spending. The majority of that money went to providing dialysis to patients. While a functioning kidney transplant is the ideal cure for ESRD, only 30% of patients […]
Cyber Security for Prevention and Cyber Insurance for Recovery
Have you heard of the cyber insurance trend, and do you know why you need it? For small to midsize businesses, cyber insurance could possibly mean the difference between failing completely or getting back up after a successful ransomware attack. Cyber insurance doesn’t cover everything lost from a cyber attack, but it does give a […]
Protect Your Company Emails from Cyberattacks
Companies large and small rely on email messaging to communicate. However, most emails people receive aren’t meant to communicate at all. 85% of all emails are considered spam. While some spam is a mere inconvenience, spam can also include dangerous phishing attacks. Phishing emails are fraudulent messages meant to steal the recipient’s personal information. This […]
Repair or Replace: Extending the Life of Your Device
The phone repair revolution is happening around the world. During the past 5 years, the lifecycle of our phones has steadily increased. From 2016 to 2019, the average time Americans took to upgrade or replace their phones rose 10 months — from 23 to 33. The change can be attributed to a variety of factors: […]
Telehealth and the Future of Nursing Home Care
The needs of nursing home residents are changing. Medicare requires residents to see a physician within 30 days of admission, but this policy is a holdover from the days when patients were primarily long-term residents in need of custodial care. Currently, 20% of hospitalized patients are discharged to nursing homes for post-acute care. This means […]
How to Score 3-Pointers for Online Security
Finding the Hidden Threat How much time do you spend online? Four, Five, Six Hours? More? Many of us spend upwards of half of our days typing or texting away for either work or pleasure. Some even use the internet as stress relief. In doing so we share things with our online friends, some pictures […]
Do Phone Calls Have a Future?
In 2021, the average phone call is a spam message. America is the 8th most spammed country in the world, receiving nearly 46 billion robocalls every year. Spammers target the US because they know they can make roughly $375 per American in phone scams. Being inundated with such calls has caused 90% of people to […]
Modern Commercial Lending Methods for the Modern World
While residential real estate lending has been moving forward right along with technological advances, commercial real estate lending is seriously behind the times. It’s been decades since commercial lending has seen any updates. In fact, in 2019, 43% of US banks were still using COBOL, which is a programming language that was invented before the […]
eBay Recommerce Report
Ever since eBay’s launch in 1995, transactions between consumers (C2C transactions) have been a vital part of their business model. Often, the sellers in C2C transactions are selling a good they had previously used. This is a process known as recommerce, and it is so important and beneficial to a variety of stakeholders that eBay […]
