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 […]
Last Friday my mother passed away. I was sitting with her when it happened. She hadn’t been well since she came home a month ago, so I did the best I could to make her comfortable until the event happen. I’ll miss my mother greatly, but that doesn’t mean I’ll forget some of the lessons […]
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. […]
There was an ad for an anti-perspirant a couple of decades ago with the slogan “never let them see you sweat”. It promised to keep you dry during those tense moments, when you start sweating under your arms during stressful times, though it had a humorous bent to it. Bilal Kamoon via Compfight There’s nothing […]