September 13, 2011

Winners and losers… both lose.  You read that right… winners and losers both lose. The critical difference is the way winners handle losing! Harvard Business School professor, Rosabeth Moss Kanter addresses this critical issue in the April 2011 Harvard Business Review.  Kanter writes: “Even for the best companies and most-accomplished professionals, long track records of

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September 13, 2011

An article in the September 12, 2011 issue of Forbes Magazine caught my eye.  The article, titled Volatility Is Your Friend, states, “with a little sense and a lot of guts, you can protect yourself – and, yes, profit – from the stock market’s wild swings.  Really.” The exact same thing is true in your career

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September 7, 2011

Amy Cosper, Editor in Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, wrote the following in the June 2011 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine: “I remember Blockbuster.  Not the sad, dusty, blighted Blockbuster of recent years.  No, definitely not that one.  I remember the hustling, bustling, sparkling Blockbuster where everyone rushed on Friday nights to rent the most recent Jason

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September 2, 2011

The August 29, 2011 issue of Time Magazine includes a well-written article that is important, and highly relevant to every leader, and certainly every healthcare leader in America!   The article is entitled The New Greatest Generation.  Author Joe Klein writes, “a new kind of war meant a new set of skills.  Now veterans from

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August 25, 2011

The critically important, universal success principle advocated and modeled by Dewitt Johns, the award-winning world-class National Geographic photographer, was alive and well… and on display during the Healthcare Supplier/Provider Institute meeting held in chicago earlier this week.  Dewitt Jones is the highly acclaimed photographer whose images have been featured in scores of National Geographic expeditions

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August 23, 2011

When the people you lead come to any of your meetings, they have expectations.  They expect to leave each of your meetings with specific and relevant information, direction and inspiration regarding accomplishing the mission and goals of your team and their organization. And so it is with any presentation, email or other communication from their

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August 18, 2011

Each and every one of us have found ourselves in very difficult and very stressful personal, professional and organizational situations.  If you are alive and breathing, it is virtually 100% guaranteed that you will be challenged with more of the same in the future. As the saying goes… “That’s life!” Regardless of who you are,

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August 15, 2011

If you want to improve your leadership skills and your leadership impact… improve your teaching skills and your teaching impact! Excellent leaders are excellent teachers. The best leaders are superb, inspirational teachers. Max Anderson, the founder of Simple Truths, wrote about two teachers who profoundly impacted his life.  In a recent book titled Heart of

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