New Year, Old Challenge

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide

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Loyal?

Loyal. What a fine word. It brings to mind legions of employees, lined up cheering when new memos are released via email blast, right? Oh,

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Cro-Magnon HR

Effective healthcare human resources leadership, and more recently, recruiting and employer branding are the center pieces of my career. As in, my entire career. It’s

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Piece of Your Action

Quick poll: how many of you have executives running around your organization getting into everyone else’s business? These same leaders are often focused on their

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Selves We Cannot Forgive

I don’t know about you, but I put a lot of pressure on myself. I’m not sharing that as some sort of martyr-type-play. I’m just

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Master of Puppets

“There are those whose primary ability is to spin wheels of manipulation. It is their second skin and without these spinning wheels, they simply do

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End of the Line

I talk about my work. I plan my work. I have an extensive and well organized Wunderlist. I document every meeting in Evernote. I need to get

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Salt the Wound (feat. You)

Approval.Influence.Pressure.Deceit.Impact.Competition.Winning.Decision-making.Power.ResponsibilityMaking big decisions is a requirement when you lead an organization. Sometimes those decisions stem from frustration at the poor performance of the team and

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