#digital article

Weekend Bookmark

A round-up of Greenhouse’s digital reads.

Canada's artificial trans fats ban comes into effect — with a phase-out period | CBC

Earlier this week, 15 years after it was first voted on by a majority of MPs, artificial trans fats were officially banned from the Canadian food supply. The ban specifically targets partially hydrogenated oils. Usually used to extend the shelf-life of some packaged goods such as pastries, these oils raise levels of “bad" cholesterol while lowering the “good” cholesterol in our bloodstream when consumed. The decision is widely being welcomed by Canadian consumers and the health industry, but what impact we might expect to see in the coming years?

Five Food Preservation Tips For Your Fall Harvest | Modern Farmer

Whether you have a window box, a garden plot, or you just overdid it at the farmer’s market this week, this quick and easy guide from Modern Farmer offers up five food preservation techniques to help you make the most of the harvest season bounty. Ranging in difficulty, and each preserving your produce in unique ways, you’ll have access to home-grown goodies through fall and into the winter (if you have that kind of willpower). 

Hospital Food You Can Get Excited About | The New York Times

Nutrition is one of the pillars of good health. Why then, is hospital food so notoriously bad that it often features alongside prison and airplane offerings as a punchline to open mic stand-up routines? Nonprofit network Northwell Health is on a mission to change that across the 23 New York-area hospitals they work with. In this article from The New York Times, we follow Chef Bruno Tison, who works with Northwell, as he leads a cook-off between teams from Long Island hospital Glen Cove, with the aim of developing new recipes that not only meet restrictions for salt, calories, and budget but are, of course, delicious. Time for some new standup material we think.

How to Put Down Your Phone and Give Mindful Eating a Try | Healthyish

In this article from line cook turned eating psychology coach, we enter the world of mindful eating. By now, most of us know that mealtime means it’s also phones-down-time so that we might eat free of distractions, but this Healthyish article goes a little deeper. Mindful eating actually begins well before you pick up your knife and fork, sometimes even before you set foot in the kitchen. While it may take a little while to form new food-health habits, the simplicity of the five techniques shared here leaves you with no excuse not to integrate at least one into your routine when mealtime next rolls around.

How to Work with a Manipulative Person

Executive Summary Almost everyone who’s ever gone to work has had to deal with an office manipulator at some point. Unfortunately, many workplaces promote manipulators because they appear to be effective at getting things done. Three kinds of responses have proven to be consistently effective for confronting most garden-variety manipulators, even if you have less power than they do. First, be…

Good Strategy Execution Requires Balancing 4 Tensions

Executive Summary The primary obstacle to strategy execution is a failure to balance inherent tensions. In particular, there are four core tensions that leaders need to balance. First, setting an inspiring end state while also including specific and challenging mid-state targets; second, top-down control versus democratizing change; third, developing new capabilities while also pressuring workers…

Executive Summary Technical developments tend to grab the headlines in health care. Predictive analytics, telemedicine, electronic health records — technology is rightly seen as a transformative force in health delivery. But it’s not the only one. At Rotterdam Eye Hospital, hospital administrators have found that through their ongoing design-thinking program, lower-tech measures can improve…

When Faced with Conflict, Try an Introspective Approach

Executive Summary When faced with a conflict with a coworker, people often jump to blaming others. But instead of reducing their stress, having an accusatory mindset toward others only fuels the frustration. To defuse the situation and return to a place of peace, you must first examine your own contribution to the conflict — no matter how small. There are a few steps you can take to have a more…

The Best Companies Know How to Balance Strategy and Purpose

Executive Summary Most companies have articulated their purpose — the reason they exist. But very few companies excel at operationalizing their purpose, which organizes human effort at a deeper level. For your declared purpose to have authentic relevance and power, it must ring true not just on the surface but down to the marrow. For example, everyone at SpaceX knows their company exists to make…

How to Make the Right Connections When You Don’t Already Have an “In”

Executive Summary If you’re new to your field or you’ve changed locations, you may not know the right people to connect you to business opportunities. To grow your network, try these five strategies. 1) Embrace specificity: tell your existing contacts exactly who you want to meet, whether that’s employees at a certain company (“I’d love to consult for Google”) or in a particular role (“Do you…

Get the Actionable Feedback You Need to Get Promoted

Executive Summary When you advance through the executive ranks, one of the commodities in scarce supply is actionable feedback from those you report to. Useful feedback is hard to come by, because managers aren’t clear what feedback is actionable or think that, as an executive, you have the seniority to translate their high-level edict into behavioral changes. How do you make sure you get…