It is my honor to highly recommend a newly published book titled Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success. For those leaders who truly desire to improve their personal, professional and organizational leadership skills and results, and to truly make a huge difference by serving others, this book is pure gold! This excellent leadership …
If you were given the opportunity to “sit at the feet” and learn (or be reminded and reinforce) proven ‘tips, behaviors and attitudes for greater success’ from a highly successful, world-class achiever, would you take the time to do so? An achiever whose company received 90,043 resumes and hired 831 new employees in 2009! Calculate that application-to-hire …
This is the last in a series of articles examining a recent IBM study titled “Capitalizing on Complexity.” The study, conclusions and recommendation are based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1,500 CEOs worldwide. In the concluding section of the study the authors state the following: “For CEOs and their organizations, avoiding complexity is not an …
For the past two weeks, this column has examined a recent IBM study titled “Capitalizing on Complexity.” The study, conclusions and recommendation are based on face-to-face conversations with more than 1,500 CEOs worldwide. Another of the major findings is that CEOs of ‘standout organizations’ are capitalizing on complexity by “Building Operating Dexterity.” “To create a profile …
In his excellent book titled, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful, Marshall Goldsmith does an excellent job of explaining why virtually all successful people resist changes necessary to go from where they are (here), to where they want to go (there). Goldsmith calls this propensity ‘The Success Delusion.’ He writes, …
This is the fourth and last in a series of articles examining Leadership Lessons from the highly effective, world-renowned leader named Dwight D. Eisenhower, the thirty-fourth president of the United States. We have been examining the still, highly relevant leadership lessons contained in the book entitled: Dwight Eisenhower’s Leadership Lessons. The book is free to …
This is the third in a series of articles examining Leadership Lessons from the highly effective, world-renowned leader named Dwight D. Eisenhower, the thirty-fourth president of the United States. In the book entitled: Dwight Eisenhower’s Leadership Lessons, the editors write the following: “On D-day, Eisenhower launched the Normandy invasion with fiery, confident rhetoric. But as he waited …
This article is written from the perspective of 15 years as a hospital CEO and over 20 additional years in the healthcare education and networking business on a national basis. There is no question that most healthcare leaders fall into the dangerous trap of limiting too much of their formal and informal continuing education to …
This is the second in a series of articles examining Leadership Lessons from the highly effective – yet often underrated – world-renowned leader named Dwight D. Eisenhower, the thirty-fourth president of the United States. In the book entitled: Dwight Eisenhower’s Leadership Lessons, the editors write the following: “As commander of all the allied troops, Dwight …
Many successful healthcare leaders enroll in university-based executive education programs over the course of their career. These programs provide an excellent opportunity to refresh, stimulate a career, enhance leadership skills, and build important personal and professional networks within and outside of healthcare. In a recent post on his blog “Great Leadership,” Dan McCarthy wrote a brief …
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he [or she] wants to do it.” That definition of leadership came from the highly effective – yet often underrated – world-renowned leader named Dwight D. Eisenhower, the thirty-fourth president of the United States. I recently enjoyed rereading the book …
The incredible value and return of investment from open, honest, transparent communication and sharing was clearly on display Monday and Tuesday of this week. The setting was the Regional Purchasing Coalition (RPC) seminar, November 8-9, 2010 in Dallas, Texas. Participants included over 100 executives representing all facets of healthcare, including RPCs, manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, GPOs, …
Seemingly Simple Successful Leadership Habits In his newly published best-selling book, Networking Is A Contact Sport, Joe Sweeney suggests that you keep four themes in mind as you read, study and implement the concepts and suggestions that are most applicable to you: Ask. You have to learn how to ask good questions. Since relationships deepen through face-to-face …
My new friend Joe Sweeney has just published a really good read, with great content and fascinating real-life stories and examples entitled: Networking Is A Contact Sport; How Staying Connected and Serving Others will Help You Grow Your Business, Expand Your Influence – Or Even Land Your Next Job. And, if you are interested in sports, you …
Given my background, experience and passion for effective networking, I was eager to read Joe Sweeney’s recently published book entitled: Networking Is A Contact Sport; How Staying Connected and Serving Others Will Help You Grow Your Business, Expand Your Influence – Or Even Land Your Next Job. It has been my honor to serve as facilitator …
Empowered: Unleash Your Employees – Energize Your Customers – Transform Your Business. All healthcare leaders can benefit from reading and careful study of a new book titled Empowered: Unleash Your Employees… Energize Your Customers… Transform Your Business. The book was written by Josh Bernoff, Senior Vice President, Idea Development at Forrester Research and Ted Schadler, Vice President …
Commandment seven of the excellent book: The Ten Commandments for Business Failure addresses the mistake of putting all your faith in experts and outside consultants. The book and commandment seven is neither anti experts nor anti consultants. Experts and consultants certainly have their place and, given the right situations, can create great value for all concerned. …
It is absolutely amazing how little time most people spend thinking. Real, true, focused thinking! Meetings, meetings and more meetings… most of which, from the perspective of a few weeks or months later… are wasted time, wasted energy, wasted money and wasted opportunities to think deeply and create true, meaningful, lasting value. Billions of cell …
I am currently studying… note that I did not say just “reading”… a simple book entitled Simplicity is Genius. The short, very much to-the-point book was written by Criswell Freeman and published by Delaney Street Press. Overwhelming information, innovation and distractions are racing toward each of us every day, not unlike a huge tsunami. In fact, …
Do people trust you? Think about it… really stop and think about it. Do people trust you implicitly? Are you trusted to be forthright and honest with everyone… all the time? Do people trust that you will be fair… not some of the time, but all of the time? Do people believe and trust that …