Archive for August, 2015

Last week there was a story in our local news about one of the hospitals in town. Seems they’re in a horrible financial position, where they showed a loss of almost $18 million in the first half of the year due to depreciation, supplies, interest and other costs. Wesley Hetrick via Compfight That’s always scary […]

Sometimes you’re going to get a surprise you’re just not expecting and it’s going to be wondrous. In my case I don’t remember the full beginning, but I somehow got connected to a young woman named Amy Morin on Twitter, and I saw that she’d written a book titled 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t […]

Last night I went to an event at the Everson Museum here in the Syracuse area. It was called Unique, and it’s a presentation of the words of talented disabled artists as well as a fundraiser for Arise Inc, on whose board I presently sit. Tom McKeown I’m not an artist in this sense. I […]

My wife and I both travel for our careers. We’re different in that I’m a consultant, whereas she’s an independent contractor who works on 13-week assignments. Fondazione Giannino Bassetti via Compfight Her present assignment will be ending in a couple of weeks and she’ll be coming home. She has spent the last couple of weeks […]

Sometimes I get the feeling that I’m in the wrong era when it comes to talking about good leadership principles. I know things change and that each generation brings something new to the table. However, based on a lot of what I’m seeing lately, I’m not sure it’s for the better. Norto Mandez via Compfight […]