Airplanes and hospitals
It's ingenous when you think about it. I was sucked in by the headline: "What Pilots Can Teach Hospitals About Patient Safety." It's a New York Times article from yesterday and it talks about how the same strategies that keep planes from slamming into each other as they land, take off, and taxi to and from gates can save lives in the similarly chaotic environment of a large hospital.
So what connections are you missing when you keep your nose buried in the profession or trade that your association serves? Conversely, what lessons from outside your core audience have you shared with your membership recently? I'd love to hear about it.
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Very good point--creativity often happens when two unlikely fields are paired. I once wrote an article for a business education association that focused on what teachers can learn from (sports) coaches. It was one of my favorite assignments, and it was also favorably received.
Posted by: Joanne Lozar Glenn | November 2, 2006 8:50 AM
Pairing fields is also how Nobel Prizes are won -- at least the science ones of the last few years. Your pairing, of coaches and teachers, brings back memories of my high school, where, ironically, coaches were the worst teachers. I always liked their classes because I was a classic underachiever then and could get a decent grade without doing any work.
I probably should have linked to it in the original post, but Associations Now had an article celebrating some multidisciplinary folks who have made an impact on business.
Posted by: Scott | November 2, 2006 9:18 AM