A few weeks ago I made a sales call of sorts; yes, I hate doing it, but I do call on occasion. I called a guy that I thought might have at least heard my name in the past since he was working at a hospital that was relatively close to one I’d worked at, […]
Back in August I wrote a post asking people what their ethics were. It didn’t get a lot of attention, but that’s okay; sometimes getting people to actually think about their ethics is a tough sell, almost like talking about diversity. An interesting conversation and then blog post by someone else has come up talking […]
A few weeks ago I decided to take someone up on an offer of helping me in figuring out how to market myself. During the second visit, we began a conversation that made me do some serious thinking on the back end. We were talking about things I could and couldn’t do, and I mentioned […]
Sunday night, after the Super Bowl, a show came on called Undercover Boss. I don’t usually watch these types of shows, but for some reason I was intrigued enough by the premise that I decided to check it out. Bindaas Madhavi via Compfight The President and COO of Waste Management, Lawrence O’Donnell, III, decided to […]
There were three big news stories in the last couple of days that are just depressing in the area of leadership. The first involves two Pennsylvania judges, who agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges accusing them of taking $2.6 million in kickbacks in return for placing juvenile offenders into certain detention facilities. One of […]