Archive for March, 2011

Whether you’re an executive coach, a life coach, a mentor or someone with authority over others, at some point you’re going to be interacting with other people, and some of these people are going to need your help in some fashion. Everyone I know has given advice of some kind in their life. Sometimes it’s [...]

Within the health care industry, lately there’s been more talk about quality. Most of the talk involves things such as clinical efficiency, getting people out of the hospital faster, and lowering the costs of care. Only on that last one do patients seem to agree. I’ve talked to a lot of them over the years, [...]

With unemployment still pretty high, there are many people with great qualifications out looking for work. I have a few friends who are in the same predicament as everyone else. No matter how much someone has to say about it, this isn’t the easiest environment to get a job, or a contract I have to [...]

Some time ago I received a call from someone who said they’d like to talk to me about maybe doing some work with them; I like calls like that. As we started discussing things, I started wondering if I was speaking to someone who actually knew what they were talking about. The way the questions [...]

When I was young, I had a pretty quick temper. It didn’t take much to get me mad to the point where I wanted to fight someone. Lucky for me, I had learned one major lesson from my dad; never hit anyone first. So I’d shake and I’d threaten but it rarely got physical unless [...]

…what remains, no matter how improbable, is the answer.” Sherlock Holmes Sometimes we all have to take a good look at something that’s not working the way we think it should and try to figure out what the issue might be. Sometimes it’s something really deep rooted that will take a long time to figure [...]

I tend to think that all of us have it within us to be extremely successful. Some people get there while others don’t. I can’t that I’m successful yet, though I have good times enough to keep me a relatively happy guy. What holds many of us back from absolutely succeeding. Usually it’s one of [...]