Leadership in the Age of Personalization Docuseries

HAOP 2024 · No. 06

Personalization Must be Operationalized

Marcia Messer; Tim Alba

From the recording

One size fits one in personalization, and I will tell you, four decades in this industry, what got us here today will not take us into the future.

Marcia Messer

About this episode

I framed this session with Donna Hicks' elements of dignity and five questions every leader should ask, starting with who do you let in. Marcia Messer, whose staff ranges from 18 to 74, explained the reverse mentoring she offers every millennial she hires. Tim Alba argued that the informal organization always beats the formal one, and pictured standard practices as a Rubik's cube a nurse can turn for each patient.

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