What’s Triggering Constant Change In Healthcare Management?

The healthcare sector is going through mass-scale changes, which have not been well thought out or seriously debated at the federal level. Back in the 1990s, former President of the U.S., Bill Clinton, attempted to enforce a…

5 Ways To Improve Your Management Style

“The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.”

~Bill Williams

Is ‘Free’ a Good Marketing Approach?

There’s nothing wrong with offering the occasional sample freebie as long as you don’t undermine your brand’s value.

“Free,” some people say it’s the most powerful word in the English language. Others consider it as a magical marketing…

The Strategic Part Of HR Data

Forty years of staff meetings. What kind of emotion does that invoke? Panic attacks? Intense boredom? Subtle multitasking? All of the above?

Perhaps it can be said that staff meetings are a necessary evil. It is important for teams to communicate, and…

Planet Of The Expats: How I Survived My Leap Of Faith Into The Great Unknown

When my friend Sarita Felder of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) Executive Women’s Outreach Committee asked me to participate in a recent panel discussion in New York titled “Uproot…

Leadership: How To Succeed In An Emerging Market

Working in a developing market, or even a less-developed frontier market, is, to say the least, a challenge. Yes, the growth potential is there, but often an established rule of law isn’t. You have your goals set by headquarters far away, and a…

What Places Some Leaders At An Astounding Advantage?

We all know the importance of technical expertise, extensive experience, and cognitive aptitude. Most of us share the adage that leadership is ‘getting someone else to do something we want done because he wants to do it’. As leaders…

The Future Of Healthcare & Hospitals From A People Perspective (Part 3)

The Big Idea — CHOICE — Choice of Approaches and Choice of Delivery

Earn Your Stripes First! — Top Resolution Of A True Professional

You know the three jobs that have been continuously downgraded, bastardized and undermined in the millennial are easily — the Writer, the Professional Speaker and the Life Coach (the last being, a tad reprehensible…

Five Ways You May Be Killing Employee Morale

“Everything rises and falls on leadership”

~ John Maxwell

Addressing the topic of work many years ago, Indira Gandhi said, “My grandfather once told me that there are two…

Hindrances To Business Success

Over lunch with one of my clients, he asked an unusually deep question: “In your training, do you try to instill new skills, or do you find you are more effective by removing the hindrances people have to using the skills they already have?”

Why Your Startup Is Not Getting Enough Word Of Mouth

When was the last time you didn’t have second thoughts on buying a product? Aside from the fact that you have the money for it, was it because you saw an advertisement about it on TV? Or was it because your sister told you about the…

Lesson — How Not To Become A Prisoner To Credit Card Debt

It was just after the sun came up this morning as I was standing in front of my trusty wood cook stove waiting for the coffee to finish percolating. I put on my apron slipping on my tattered old shoes, I headed to the smoke house…

Why We Like, Comment, And Share On Facebook

When it comes to generating traffic from Facebook, I’ve seen firsthand that writing blog posts that are interesting, important, timely, and funny usually does…

Vital Tips For Starting And Running A Successful Business

As an entrepreneur, you may be aware of the unfortunately dismal success rate of small businesses. Many small businesses do not make it through their first few years, and the last thing you want is for your venture to become an…

Time For A New Look At Learning

Or What I Learned from Reading “Informal Learning at Work”

When economic or business circumstances cause companies to tighten their belts, the first item on the chopping block is often training and…

How Well Are You Serving Yourself?

I have seen a sign at a health club that says, “The greatest gift that you can give your family is your own health”. As a servant leader it is also the greatest gift that you can give your team as well.

Promoted Too Fast

We were under the gun to replace a manager who left suddenly. So, we promoted her assistant. That’s not working out as well as we had hoped. But we want to give her a chance before we look for someone else. What do you suggest?

Technology (Part III) — Smart Cities

What features make a city smart and what are the benefits for its citizens: a glimpse ….

Managing cities is a complicated business where each action or its absence affects the…