“Brother, who did that to your head?” That was a question I was asked back in the early 1990’s when I was working at a FQHC on contract locally. I was in a position at the time where I worked multiple projects. On this particular day I was working directly with patients, and it wasn’t […]

It’s been almost 6 years since I did my last book review. It’s been 8 1/2 years since I did my last book review where I knew the author. Finally, it’s been just over 10 years since I did my last interview on this blog; I’ve been slipping! Today, there’s a little of both, which […]

I sometimes wonder if people think that I’m hard on hospital leadership. I want to stress that there’s nothing further from the truth. The reason I talk about it from time to time as being somewhat different than almost anything else is because health care is a different animal than any other business. Whereas most […]

Are people allowed to congratulate themselves? Well, whether they are or not I’m going to give myself a brief congratulations. Today is the 20th anniversary of my business. I filed for business license on June 22, 2001, and I’ve only ever look back once, or maybe twice. Being self employed is scary, and it’s certainly […]

Sometimes the lessons leaders need to learn come from comedy. In this case I’m reminded of a skit that was on Saturday Night Live in the 80’s. leaders / Pixabay In this particular skit, the priest went to see the mother superior because he’d been troubled by the behavior of some of the nuns recently. […]