What’s at the heart of your organization?
Love isn’t “the word” found in most organizations. Fear is more like it. Fear of criticism, fear of failure, fear of getting caught, or fear…
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Budget reaction
President Barack Obama’s fiscal budget plan for 2013 was met with a resounding thud in the healthcare sector. “Today’s budget is bad news for…
Boosting Emotional Intelligence
Like the debate on whether leaders are born or made, an early debate in the emerging Emotional Intelligence research was whether our EQ, like IQ,…
Will ACOs make health insurance obsolete?
Ezekiel Emanuel and Harvard professor Jeffrey Liebman make a bold prediction for healthcare in a blog for the New York Times: “By 2020, the American…
Health reform update
The following health reform updates were provided by the Health Industry Distributors Association. Visit www.hida.org for more. Organizations to form Pioneer ACOs Thirty-two healthcare…
Taming your technology
Electronic tools are incredible. They can enhance communications, build relationships, and increase time effectiveness. Electronic tools can also replace true communication with information overload, damage…
Technology tip: Smartphone cyber security
Perhaps not surprisingly, the National Cyber Security Alliance reports that smartphone users have a false sense of cyber security about their devices. Research by the…
Book Review: Good Company
Good Company ties together the lessons we’re still learning from The Great Recession, and explains what’s fueling the occupy movements, shows how social responsibility and…
The 85 Percent Solution
A recent article in Healthcare Executive Magazine entitled, The 85 Percent Solution, is worthy of revisiting and re-emphasizing. The author assumes you are responsible for…
The Juggling Act
January is the time Heather and I review the past year and refocus our vision on the years ahead. We look at family, house or…