Stress Management

How to Diagnose Complacency

Mike Smith is a featured speaker at EMS World Expo 2013 , Sept. 8–12, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV. Complacency is both a sneaky and insidious process. It functions much like a bacteria, since there is no immediate indication that complacency has taken root and begun to spread. As such, one doesn’t even recognize that they have become infected because initially, like any disease process, there are no signs or symptoms. Unfortunately, once the observable changes begin to...
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