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Today marks 20 years of McGrathNicol. Discover how we came to be, the projects and events that shaped us and the values that have driven our success: https://lnkd.in/gQVUYXHC

Wallace State Community College’s Center for Career and Workforce Development recently welcomed REHAU Automotive to its Powerful Partnerships program. The initiative brings together the college and area businesses to drive workforce development and economic growth. https://lnkd.in/eWqUuAKa

Congratulations #MachineGames, #Bethesda, and #Xbox! I'm very happy to see Indiana Jones and the Great Circle come out. It has been a long journey for Indy. Machine Games is getting better and better with each release. And they look to be the perfect developer for Indy. I hope this is the first of several Indiana Jones adventures from Machine Games. Remember, the MachineGames folks who came from StarBreeze worked on the fantastic Chronicles of Riddick and The Darkness games back in the day. There is a fantastic lineage of experience and play from The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (2004), The Darkness (2007), and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (2009) to Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014), The Old Blood (2015), The New Colossus (2017), and Young Blood (2019) to the just released Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (2024). There is both individual and studio learning across two decades of First Person Adventures that gets us to from Chronicles of Riddick to The Darkness to Wolfenstein to Indiana Jones. This is game history in motion. Back in 2009 I almost went to LucasArts for the last Indiana Jones that LucasArts almost made. This was before Disney bought the six Lucas companies in 2012 for $4 billion. When that Indy was canceled in 2009, I instead went to id Software. At id Software I saw the care and attention that Machine Games had for Wolfenstein, while we worked on Rage & Doom. I also released Wolfenstein on Mobile and back onto consoles. Meanwhile MachineGames labored on Wolfenstein for over a decade putting out fantastic new Wolfenstein games to complement the classic. So yeah, if I can't make Indy, I'm happy that MachineGames is. I've seen and played MachineGames' work, directly and indirectly, for a long time. MachineGames is a fantastic steward for Indiana Jones in First Person Adventures. I hope that Indy and MachineGames have a rich and entangled future for a decade to come. I want to play the games they'll make. I have loved Indiana Jones since I was a kid. So I'm happy to inhabit Indy through a First Person window via the development wizardry, expertise, love, care, and craft from MachineGames. ps. As a former Looking Glass and id Software game designer I am so happy that Indiana Jones is a first person adventure. pps. Make good games to build good developers to make great studios to make great games. #indianajones #microsoft #xbox #gamepass #bethesda #machinegames

Happy 1st MBO anniversary to River Capital equity portfolio business Barons Contract Furniture - can’t believe it’s been a year already!! It's been great to work with all the team at Baron's, including Managing Director Garry Smith and Chair Gary Lasham. As outlined in the post below, there’s been a massive amount achieved in what is a relatively short period, and the future looks equally exciting as the business continues to deliver on its growth opportunities. And you? Are you like Garry, an MD in a North West based SME business you wish to acquire? Or do you own an SME and are considering your exit plans which may potentially include passing the business on to your management team? Always happy to talk and see if we can help .... #fuellingambition #MBO #investment #growth #equity

This month, Glen Smith, CEO and CIO of GDS Wealth Management, marks two decades in the financial services industry. Glen's insights have been featured in top publications like Reuters, Barron’s, and WSJ. Recognized as one of Forbes' Best-in-State Wealth Advisors for 6 years straight, Glen's dedication to clients and the community shines through his celebrated career. Cheers to servant leadership and many more successful years ahead! 🌟    Watch the video below to get to know Glen and his journey to founding GDS Wealth Management. #20years #Anniversary #financialplanning #financialadvisors #financialplanner #wealthmanagement #fiduciary

If you are at From Day One today in Dallas hear from industry experts including our CEO and Founder Michal Alter on ways that companies can support belonging and purpose throughout the entire life cycle of the employee.

Otherwise, "good people" can find themselves stuck in bad systems. Social psychology teaches us that under "stress," "coercion," the influence of "perverse incentives," and various other factors, a kind of normalization of deviance, Stockholm syndrome, or "motivated reasoning" can warp people. UnitedHealthcare’s operations exemplify how bureaucratic isolation allows harm to persist while insulating workers from accountability. Employees are siloed into specialized roles, such as claims processing, prior authorizations, or provider negotiations, which focus narrowly on discrete tasks. This compartmentalization prevents workers from seeing how their actions contribute to broader outcomes, such as delays in patient care, denied treatments, or provider dissatisfaction. Policies framed as routine compliance normalize harmful practices, while strict adherence to cost-cutting protocols emphasizes profitability over patient well-being. The fragmentation of roles and information ensures that workers rarely witness the cumulative effects of their decisions, diffusing accountability and minimizing ethical reflection. This structure leads to real-world consequences like worsened patient health outcomes, administrative burdens for providers, and systemic prioritization of profit over care. Employees, often rewarded for meeting performance metrics rather than questioning ethical implications, cannot address or challenge these harms effectively. To mitigate these issues, UnitedHealthcare needs to foster transparency, empower workers to understand their role in the system and shift its focus from procedural compliance to patient-centered care. Such reforms could bridge the disconnect between workers’ actions and the company’s broader impacts, reducing harm and improving outcomes. The media focus on Brian Thompson's manner of death, while necessary, distracts from what other lessons could be learned from his life.

If we built a new healthcare system in the US from scratch, what would it look like? There's enough Agile and other process efficiency expertise on LinkedIn surely together we can get the bear-bones of a plan together which would address some of the many complaints about the current system (noted in the thread attached). Lets lead the country in taking collective accountability for the country's health outcomes and brainstorm together for a better system to rise "like a phoenix from the flames". Some action items, feel free to address in the comments: - Define healthcare in the context of patients receiving treatments, etc related to their health. - Process map of current healthcare system, inclusive of the variety of common and edge-case patients who utilize it, and the roles insurance, patients and doctors play in interacting with or facilitating the process at different stages - End-state goal. What should the system serve to provide in terms of deliverables and quality of life for the end user? What is the optimal outcome for the patient? - Value stream map of current healthcare process - How does a public program such as Medicare impact the current system? - How does employer-sponsored coverage impact the current system? - What would the inclusion of preventative care in general healthcare do to the overall health of the population over time? - Are there other areas of the industry than patient-facing where it could be made more efficient and lead to improved outcomes? - What studies currently exist which may help to determine better practices for a future-state system? - What are some aspects of the systems other countries use which could be explored to improve the current process in the US? - Listen to the Omnia and the Blizzard remix of Phoenix From the Flames and bask in the glory that is Justine Suissa's vocals on this legendary trance track.

The post is very manipulative or narrow minded. As it was pointed in a comment here, this is of course murder. And my post doesn't intend to justify the crime but tries to add explanations to a complex situation. 1. It implies that the murder was committed for no reason at all, everything was just fine. 2. It is possible that the victim was guilty of inhumane company policies and this is why the crime happened. 3. It is possible that the victim didn't make the policies instead they were imposed on him. But then who made them and who should actually be punished for them ? 4. It is possible that the company policies were intented for the common good. But even if this is the case, the post mentions no such thing. I wonder, because they were not ? 5. The post may have been paid for, it is hard to believe that such an ignorant post ( to say the least ) can have such an agreement among real people.