I’m ready to break out of the winter doldrums. Unfortunately, in central New York, old man winter seems to be pushing around Miss Spring and not really wanting to let go. Even on a day like yesterday, when the temperatures finally broke through for some warmth and sun in the late afternoon, the winds were […]

Later today I’ll be doing a webinar on the overall subject of health care pricing. It’s a presentation geared for one company specifically, although it’s a presentation I could give to almost any health care group if they were interested in it. Something I do as a professional is to rehearse whatever presentations I happen […]

This morning I was at a meeting for consultants. We were talking about another organization, called the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). This is an organization I used to belong to, that I’m thinking about possibly rejoining at some point in the future, but just haven’t been enthused lately. The conversation got around […]

If there’s anything I can’t stand hearing about, it’s stories about management level people who don’t know how to treat employees like adults. These are the types who ask employees to do something and then when they do it and find out that those above them don’t like it they act like the employees did […]

Something you often hear motivational types talking about is the concept that, for almost everyone, whatever problem you have someone has it worse, and that if you could see things in those terms you’d realize that at least you have a chance to make things better for yourself and push forward. In some respects that’s […]