Featured essayJuly 29, 20266 min readDemo content
Better requires measurement you are willing to be wrong about
Most improvement programs measure what is easy to defend. The useful metric is usually the one that could embarrass you.
A column by Corey Mack
What Better Requires
Ideas about leadership, technology, systems, and the people shaping what's next.
"We talk constantly about making things better. But what does better actually require? This series explores the leadership, systems, technology, culture, and human decisions behind meaningful progress—in ABA and beyond."
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Operations
Better requires measurement you are willing to be wrong about
Most improvement programs measure what is easy to defend. The useful metric is usually the one that could embarrass you.
July 29, 20266 min readDemo content
Operations
Better requires an owner, not a committee
Shared accountability is usually a polite way of saying no one is accountable. Naming an owner is the cheapest improvement available.
July 17, 20265 min readDemo content
Technology & AI
Better requires technology that respects the person using it
Software fails in this field for a specific reason: it is designed for the report, not for the clinician at 6:40pm finishing notes.
July 3, 20267 min readDemo content
Topic pages
Leadership
What decision-making, accountability, and standard-setting actually look like when the stakes are clinical.
2 essays
Technology
Tools, automation, and AI — judged by whether they make the work better, not faster to sell.
1 essay
Systems
The structures, workflows, and incentives that quietly decide the quality of care.
1 essay
Culture
How teams talk about mistakes, measurement, and progress when nobody is watching.
1 essay
People
Careers, supervision, and the human cost of models built on optimistic assumptions.
1 essay
ABA
Essays anchored specifically in the practice and profession of applied behavior analysis.
1 essay
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Conversations
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