Management/Leadership

In a recent article by the Harvard Business Review titled Why Great Leaders Are in Short Supply, their premise was that there’s a dearth of leaders in society that seem capable of getting the job done, whatever the job is, and that as great leaders disappear so also goes the wealth of new and great [...]

When I do my charge master reviews for hospitals, one of the areas that’s always of particular interest is supplies. Hospitals can literally have more than 5,000 supply items on their charge master; that’s hard for anyone to keep up with. Having items in their inventory control is one thing; having that many charges that [...]

Back in November I wrote a post titled 4 Steps To Being A Better Leader. In actuality I probably should have used the term “concepts” instead of “steps” because those are really ideals that one holds a good leader has, but they’re not really steps are learning how to be a better leader. Something that [...]

My book Embrace The Lead has been on the market for about 9 years now. I’ve made enough sales to have gotten my money back, but I wouldn’t be mad at having more sales. However, my belief is that the book has been out long enough to share my outline, if you will, of the [...]

“Brother, who did that to your head?” That was a question I was asked back in the early 1990′s when I was working at a FQHC on contract locally. I was in a position at the time where I was working directly with patients and it wasn’t such a bad gig. You never knew who [...]

Someone asked me recently why I’ve been on a rant lately in regards to independent consulting and small businesses. He wondered if it merged well with what the blog has been about for the past 7 years, which is talking about leadership, diversity, customer service, motivation, health care, et al. My response was that it [...]

Most managers feel as though the weight of the world is on their shoulders. It’s understandable because management, though it can be fun, can also be stressful. Most of the time it’s stressful because managers feel as though they’re supposed to know all the answers, and that they have to exude strength by being all [...]