Mitch's Blog

I remember a time many years ago when I was working with a health care group out of state. They brought me in to do an assessment of their charge capture process throughout a 2-hospital system. I’d been working on the project for about two weeks, and things had been going fairly well. Come the […]

Leadership is easy; no it’s not. Leadership is hard; no it’s not. Even though I put together a book titled Leadership Is/Isn’t Easy, truth be told, the hardest parts of being a leader should be the easiest ways to deal with it. What really makes leadership hard is the pressure to perform and deal with […]

I often say that not all managers are leaders. They’re supposed to be, but they’re not. They either don’t have the skills to do it properly or don’t care as long as they think they can get what they want. I say it that way because sometimes they do… but it’s never sustaining. It’s not […]

Thirteen days ago, while I was at my mother’s house, we got a visit from a social worker. I had just recently got in touch with Visiting Nurses to obtain some services for my mother, whose mental health had been slipping over the course of months. It reached a point where I thought she needed […]

Me: “Man…” Her: “What?” Me: “That car in front of us is only going 30 and the speed limit is 45. It’s irking me.” Her: “What are you in a hurry to get to?” Me: “Wherever I can be sooner than where I am now.” Almost all of us hate when someone else is holding […]