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Author(s): Stephen Deason
Publisher: Alder Creek Editions
Publisher Imprint: Alder Creek Editions
BISAC: Home Care
Every family thinks the crisis will look obvious when it comes. It rarely does.
The Weakest Link follows the Carter family through what looks, at first, like an ordinary health scare: a symptom nobody quite has words for, a call that doesn’t get an exam, a discharge that closes one chapter of care without connecting to the next. Nobody is careless. Nobody fails at their job. And somehow, by the time anyone notices, the gap between all those competent, reasonable decisions has already become the crisis itself.
That’s the pattern this book is built to make you feel before it tells you what it’s called.
Written in the tradition of Patrick Lencioni’s business fables, The Weakest Link is a story first: close enough to your own life, or someone’s you know, that the second half of the book won’t need to convince you of anything. It only needs to name what you’ve already recognized: the specific handoffs where care most often breaks down, the questions that catch what gets lost in each one, and the roles a family ends up filling that no single professional was ever assigned to fill.
This is Book One of the Operational Reliability Series, which continues in The Invisible Architecture.
Stephen Deason is the founder of OPA Home Care, where he has spent over a decade watching families navigate exactly this gap, competently, alone, and usually for the first time.
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