Seth’s report on Starbuck’s sugar problem today … offered a chance to suggest how simple brain based practices can add to health at work. Organizations make brain based practices a reality … by simply starting a workday with the brain in mind. How so?
Here are a few ways I saw it started in Seth Godin’s blog lately: 
Seth often speaks of foods that work well to fuel the mind … and he takes a few honest shots at places that pretend to be good for you … but are not. Much as I love Starbucks … Seth is right on about their sugar-packin’ drinks.
Ok, let’s add a brain based practice to Seth’s excellent commentary on today's Times report. Drink more water at work to hydrate your brain … It’s a simply as that. See a problem … such as fatting drinks … and add a brain based alternative … such as water’s role to fuel and energize the brain.
The implementation of brain based practices is especially important for firms that plan to sustain and improve their success rates, raise the collective IQ, and create growth for workers at every job level. Based on the premise that intelligence is not fixed … and on research that shows how the brain develops new skills well beyond the senior years … why not simply add one brain based tactic a week.
What do you think?
This one may actually ruin your day. Know those power bars we all buy?
Turns out the protein used comes from...guess, guess?
Wait for it...
Rendering plants. Out here in the midwest, scattered around farming country are rendering plants. These operations send out trucks, called "Dead Trucks" to pick up roadkill, dead farm animals, etc. These are taken to rendering plants, now sophisticated chemical operations, with centrifuges etc, designed to separate the "good" from the "bad."
Turns out the protein bars need actual protein, which only comes from BLOOD. It makes no difference from who, where, and when.
This is not an urban myth but a well kept secret. So when I see all the holier than thou folks eating them and looking down upon us Arby's eaters, I am tempted to tell the story to them.
Should I?
Posted by: gl hoffman | September 14, 2006 1:45 PM | Permalink to Comment