How AI Is Revolutionizing Future Workplace Wellness

How AI Is Revolutionizing Future Workplace Wellness

Dr. Anita Gupta is a C-suite Healthcare Executive Leader, Board Member and Physician-PharmD. Working as a physician, I quickly learned how the realities of modern work can impact everyone, not just patients, but coworkers and care teams as well. As I witnessed colleagues struggle with burnout and stress-related declines in health, I began to understand how well-being is not a nice-to-have but a must-have. Today, professionals across industries are beginning to understand this fact, with growing expectations that their organizations will support their well-being. In light of this, artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a powerful way to deliver more targeted and effective wellness programs. Especially with the rapid pace […]

The Unbelievable Slowness of Thinking

The Unbelievable Slowness of Thinking

The brain is sometimes called the most complex machine in the known universe. But the thoughts that it outputs putter along at a trifling 10 bits per second, the pace of a conversation Source: Scientific American People tend to have the sense that their inner thoughts and feelings are much richer than what they are capable of expressing in real time. Elon Musk has spoken publicly about this “bandwidth problem,” as he described it to podcaster Joe Rogan. Musk is so bothered by this, in fact, that he has made it one of his long-term goals to create an interface that allows the human brain to communicate directly with a computer, unencumbered […]

5 Whys – Getting to the Root of a Problem Quickly

5 Whys – Getting to the Root of a Problem Quickly

Have you ever had a problem that refused to go away? No matter what you did, sooner or later it would return, perhaps in another form. Stubborn or recurrent problems are often symptoms of deeper issues. “Quick fixes” may seem convenient, but they often solve only the surface issues and waste resources that could otherwise be used to tackle the real cause. Source: Mind Tools Content Team In this article and in the video, below, we look at the 5 Whys technique (sometimes known as 5Y). This is a simple but powerful tool for cutting quickly through the outward symptoms of a problem to reveal its underlying causes – so that you […]