When I started this blog, I had a goal to add an article a week. I had been toying with establishing a blog for a while and had lots of ideas already accumulated when I decided to do this. As I had ideas, I would dictate them into the notes app on my phone. Besides…
I recently listened to Sleigh Ride – my favorite song – performed in expert fashion by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Why do I love this song? In the spirit of the holidays, I applied my leadership brain as I listened and came up with The 10 Leadership Lessons of Sleigh Ride! It is an all inclusive…
I recently passed a “Store Closing” sign on a Sears department store. The bankruptcy of Sears had me thinking about my past experience with this former powerhouse retailer. Sears had, and wasted, the opportunity to be what Amazon has become. Sears, a company that sold everything and was the best in the catalog shopping space,…
By metaphoric definition, low hanging fruit means: that which can be obtained with little or no effort. Somehow, this phrase is lately being communicated as a positive business strategy. Yet, there are plenty of other “sayings” that warn of a negative outcome to the no-effort approach: If you find a path with no obstacles, it…
When I speak with teams about what they need to do to be successful in their job and exceptional at goal achievement in their organization, I frequently refer to the movie: “The Devil Wears Prada”. The question I will ask is “when did Andie become good at her job?” The answer is “when she wore…
In the Spirit of Halloween, let’s discuss a leadership lesson presented by surgery on the eyeball – in an example of how life imitates art! I had a vitrectomy a few years ago due to something called a macular hole in my right eye. It was a scary time and my vision was at risk. …
I had the privilege of working at a children’s hospital for two years. I can honestly say it was my favorite job ever! Who could not love a job where you would have little kids running into your legs as you were walking down the hall on your way to a meeting. One of the…
We have so much to learn from each other! In healthcare leadership, it is the constant exchange of ideas, working in teams with a diversity of expertise, and being open to trying different approaches that allows us to accomplish some of our greatest work. So I wanted to create a forum through which these ideas…