{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Leading Health | Building a Healthier Kansas","title":"Our Existing Assumptions Fail Us","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2259,"description":"What if the biggest barrier to better health in your community isn't a lack of resources, but a set of assumptions you didn't even know you were making?In this conversation, co-hosts Ed O'Malley and Susan Kang are joined by returning guest Kenny Wilk of the University of Kansas Health System. Together, they unpack how hidden assumptions — about who should be involved, what needs to be done, and how fast progress can happen — quietly shape how people in authority think and act. Wilk shares candid stories from his time in the Kansas Legislature and offers a fresh lens on exercising leadership. This conversation will challenge you to surface the assumptions driving your own work before they become \"premeditated resentments.\"HighlightsThe three most common assumptions the 30,000 make when tackling complex health challenges, and why each one can derail progress.The critical difference between adaptive and technical challenges. Kenny Wilk's hard-won insight from the Kansas Legislature: don't ask people to change their minds; give them new information so they can make a new decision.How sharing information to ‘slow things down’ can help a group go farther, together. The \"sidewalk story\" is a simple metaphor that reframes how we see ‘work’ being done. The danger of bringing people together only to present a baked solution, and what to do instead.Chapters0:47 —Leading Health Review, Preview and Big Picture. 3:02 — Chapter Eight insight: \"Closing the Health Gap Is a Leadership Challenge Because Our Existing Assumptions Fail Us\"4:55 — The three common assumptions the 30,000 make6:28 — The quick fix trap8:37 — Technical vs. adaptive: a broken bone example11:14 — Kenny Wilk joins the conversation12:18 — The water debate: a lesson from Kenny's first year in the legislature14:52 — Defining \"assumption\" — and why we're all starting from different places15:56 — You have to slow down to go far16:22 — Getting up on the balcony to examine assumptions17:52 — New decisions, not mind...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0hQBt6xYK5BoKvJpJLVCG8i_hk6fL1i15b_orl1BAYg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81ZjM5/YzE4OTE0N2UyMmUx/YzRjNjBiYzVkZGVh/ZjZhZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}