I’ve been out of pocket for quite some time, dealing with issues surrounding my aging parents. Although I am a business strategist with 26 years of healthcare experience, I still encountered many roadblocks and detours in trying to maneuver through the healthcare system over these past few weeks. If I have had this much trouble, [...]
Budgets and metrics are two tools that can either be your friends or foes. As the executive leader of your organization, you determine in which category they fall for you and your company. I’ll leave the budget discussion to the finance guys; here I want to talk about metrics. Simply put, metrics are measures of [...]
Being an executive leader requires learning lessons from not just personal experiences but also from other sources. Sometimes life lessons are the most real! Here is a business lesson learned by observing a professional pilot – business lesson #1 learned from the cockpit! On January 15, 2009, passengers had just been given the routine emergency [...]
IT HAPPENED AGAIN TODAY! It is like fingers on a chalkboard to me. As a business strategy consultant, I get frustrated and annoyed at the overuse of the word ‘strategy’ in the business world. Sometimes I don’t think the person speaking actually understands what the word means! Strategy is an outcome, not an action-oriented task [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen! Your attention, please! Today’s bout is for the heavy weight title of America’s Successful Enterprise. In the near corner, wearing red trunks, is the Department of Labor, returning to activity as an enforcement agency after several years of non-participation. In the far corner, wearing green trunks, is Your Company, which has been [...]
