Communicating in Trying Times

Five Keys to Flourishing in Trying Times

in this article, i rely on two decades of empirical research on organizations that have faced difficult economic situations but achieved unexpected and exceptional levels of success. Carefully examining these organizations has helped uncover some unusual leadership strategies that can serve as guidelines to leaders facing tying times. these unusual strategies supplement the oft-prescribed leade...

Successfully maintaining program funding during trying times: lessons from tobacco control programs in five states.

Despite negative financial conditions in recent years, several states were able to successfully maintain funding for tobacco prevention and control, which provided an opportunity to understand the factors associated with success. One explanation may be the level of long-term program sustainability in some states. According to a model developed by Saint Louis University researchers, the five ele...

"Trying" times: Medicalization, intent, and ambiguity in the definition of infertility.

Researchers studying infertility from the perspective of anthropology and other the social sciences seldom examine the assumptions embedded in the biomedical definition of infertility. Implicit in the biomedical definition is the assumption that people can be divided straightforwardly into those who are trying to conceive and those who are not trying to conceive. If being infertile implies "int...

Predoctoral directors: who are they and what do they do in these trying times?

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family medicine faces declining student interest and funding. Predoctoral directors will help lead efforts to overcome these challenges. Academic success will be important for predoctoral directors to be effective leaders in academic health centers. We therefore sought to describe predoctoral directors and factors associated with their academic success. METHODS We ca...

Trying Times: The Courts, the Historian, and the Contentious Struggle to Define Disease.