Mitch's Blog

I see the year 2009 as kind of a bellwether year in my personal and professional life, and therefore I figure I have to have goals that help me get to places I want to be eventually in both of my lives. Though I’m still working on coming to grips with it, I’ll be turning […]

I’m presently doing a consulting assignment at a hospital out of state, and last week, while there, the hospital had an internal crisis that became an external crisis that pretty much shut it down for the day. It’s interesting when hospitals shut down; they don’t really shut down. What happens is people start to mobilize […]

I have rarely been political in this blog, by intention because it’s supposed to be a business blog. However, since a part of my business is dealing with diversity issues, I’m about to take a political stance on something. Before I do, I feel the need to say this. Over the course of the years […]

Last week America was shocked when the governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, was arrested by federal authorities on a host of charges, the main one saying that he was planning on trying to sell President-Elect Barack Obama’s open Senate seat. Almost immediately, people across the United States started calling for the governor to resign, something […]

My friend Kelvin sent me a link to a neat little motivational movie called Finish Strong, from the Nightingale-Conant people. They always have some pretty good stuff, and I liked this one, and it’s relatively short, so I wanted to share it with you. There’s a quote that goes “It’s not how you start, but […]