You may have heard the phrase “If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.” Hopefully, as a leader, you don’t find yourself saying this very often. I’ve had leaders tell me that employees don’t really complete assignments. They will get an...
Burnout…whose issue is it? Some years back, I wrote a book with the help of George Ford, MD. The title is Healing Physician Burnout: Diagnosing, Preventing, and Treating. Dr. Ford was seeing a lot of burnout in doctors and healthcare in general and brought it to...
I suspect most of us are glad to see 2020 in our rearview mirror. It has been an incredibly tough year, with many losses and challenges. But hard times also have a way of bringing growth and new perspectives. Now it’s time to take the lessons we’ve learned and move...
Every new year, like clockwork, we all start thinking about going on a diet. But what if instead of focusing on what we put into our bodies we got intentional about what we put into our minds? What if an information diet became our fitness goal for 2021? Recently a...
This happens to be my last column of the calendar year. Originally, I was going to reflect on some of the top business lessons from 2020. But then my friend and colleague Dick Fulford passed away and I realized that, instead, I wanted to share some insights he taught...
I often write about having the discipline to pause. I am a work in progress on this. One of my favorite books, written over 50 years ago, shared that an unkind word can ruin a relationship for a day, a week, a year, or a lifetime. While it’s true that the ability to...
