“Every region needs its heroes. These folks take role modeling to an extreme; they have names like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Steve Case, Anita Roddick, and Oprah Winfrey. Kids need heroes, in that they can say, ‘When I grow up, I am going to be the next Steve Jobs.” Guy Kawasaki, Reality Check […]

A few years ago I went to a convention where the focus was on health care finance; more specifically, people whose jobs are geared towards medical billing and revenue cycle. As usual, the seminars were fairly interesting, but one keynote presentation really brought everything home. It was intriguing because of the major question we all […]

Last week one of my friends asked me this question on Twitter: “Do white supremacists and KKK members, current or former, deserve to have jobs?” My response was “If the employers are ready to handle the potential fallout from those connections, no problem.” Dan Mason via Compfight For me, that was a pretty easy question […]

Last week I wrote a post titled It’s Okay NOT To Be A Leader. In that post, I mentioned that even if you decide not to be a leader, it doesn’t mean that you do everything the leader tells you to do just because you’ve decided to be a follower. This is a follow up […]

A few weeks ago I made a sales call of sorts; yes, I hate doing it, but I do call on occasion. I called a guy that I thought might have at least heard my name in the past since he was working at a hospital that was relatively close to one I’d worked at, […]