Sublime

Les données ont été absolument cruciales. Comme elles le seront à l’avenir également, quand éclatera la prochaine épidémie. C’est pourquoi il est essentiel de protéger leur crédibilité, et la crédibilité de ceux qui les produisent. Les données doivent être utilisées pour dire la vérité, pas pour inciter à agir, aussi nobles soient les intentions.

We will never know exactly how many people the Spanish flu killed. But the best estimates are that about 50 million people died worldwide, almost 3 percent of the global population at the time. The equivalent figure today would be 220 million people.

The scientific literature estimates that at least 60 percent of premature deaths, for instance, are caused by nonmedical factors.3 Researchers have estimated that the health returns on education increase the value of educational investments by between 15 and 55 percent.

Some of my favorites were Good to Great and Built to Last, both by Jim Collins, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish, and a bunch of books by Patrick Lencioni: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business, Death by Meeting, and Five Dysfunctions of the Team: A Leadership Fable.

we cannot attain superior health results by continuing to outspend others on medical care.