I got a (reasonable) inquiry from someone, so thought I would make it clear to everyone:
Neither I nor the central 60 Summits Project nor Webility Corporation has any economic relationship with the people and organizations I mentioned in my post about the orthopedist who likes the results being produced by the work disability paradigm.... but we ARE philosophically well aligned, which is why Jerry Fogel and OptaComp supported the Florida Summit so enthusiastically! And although, yes, the success Dr. Northrup describes is a success for OptaComp and Jerry (who is a consultant to OptaComp), it is more importantly a demonstration of the power of the work disability prevention model. So I wanted to share it with you -- and was happy to tell you who did it!
The purpose statement in our revised Partner Attraction Plan for The 60 Summits Project says that we are "creating a community of like-minded people" across North America. And, that within our community, we intend to "enable buyers and sellers of products and services that effectively prevent needless work disability to find each other so that they thrive and prosper".
We all gotta stop acting "too pure to be paid". If the people who adopt this new model can't do well by doing the right thing, how the heck will this paradigm ever get propagated and take hold?
The reality is that we all choose things to do because they benefit us in some way -- either they are fun or they make us feel like we are good people, or they help us advance our knowledge, mastery, reputations or careers, or they further our sales goals or they reduce our overhead. My personal intention is that all the people associated with The 60 Summits Project -- including me -- profit in some way from our participation in or support for it -- personally, professionally, financially -- and ideally in all three ways!
I've pasted our revised purpose statement below. You can find the entire Partner Attraction Plan on the 60 Summits Project's website.
Cordially,
Jennifer Christian, MD, MPH
What is the purpose of The 60 Summits Project?
The 60 Summits Project is a grassroots initiative that is creating a multi-stakeholder community of like-minded people who intend to:
· Prevent needless work disability by helping people stay employed;
· Upgrade the performance of workers' compensation and disability benefits systems by employing a multi-stakeholder collaborative approach to:
§ mitigate the impact of illness, injury or impairment on each individual’s ability to function at work, and
§ promote the economic vitality and productivity of workers, employers, and local economies;
· Use as our framework the new work disability prevention paradigm and 16 recommendations for improving the stay at work and return to work process laid out in a report entitled “Preventing Needless Work Disability by Helping People Stay Employed” from the American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine (ACOEM);
· Inspire and convince people to take action to make those improvements and cooperate under the new paradigm;
· Lead by example and support each other in actually doing these things ourselves;
· Within our community, enable buyers and sellers of products and services that effectively prevent needless work disability to find each other so that they thrive and prosper;
· Grow our community until people across
North America
are employing this new multi-stakeholder, collaborative, and problem-solving approach, and it eventually becomes the norm everywhere.
