Leadership

A few days ago, my wife was in my office talking to me when all of a sudden she starts swatting at herself, jumps out of the chair, and starts stomping on the floor. I pretty much knew what had happened, but I had to ask anyway: “Was it a spider?” Of course she said […]

First, the latest issue of the T T Mitchell Consulting Healthcare Newsletter, CFO Issues, is available. Let me ask you a question. If you’re a leader in some capacity, how do you affect people you interact with? It’s a question many managers can’t answer, or may be fooling themselves by answering incorrectly. I would bet […]

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I’ve always believed that two of the most important qualities one wants to have in themselves and see in others is loyalty and trustworthiness; honesty is a close third. If you have these things in your friends, and they see them in you, then life will be great because you know there’s always someone who […]

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One of the things I often talk about is how staff needs to be trained well enough so that they know how to do their jobs well. However, there are times when I wonder if it’s not the training we’re doing as much as the people we’re trying to train. How many people have seen […]

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Do you watch Clean House? Basically, it’s a show about people who accumulate so much clutter in their lives, for a variety of reasons, that they have no idea where to start to get out of trouble. So, instead of even trying, they just continue doing the same thing over and over until the Clean […]

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