
Healing Leader Burnout: A Few Quick Tips
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

Are you asking yourself the right questions? Twelve questions to help guide you through 2021.
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

Why An “Information Diet” is a Great Resolution for 2021.
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

A Great Mentor Has Passed. Here’s What I Learned From Him.
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

Don’t Accept Generalities. Instead, Push for Clarification.
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

Words and Phrases That Have Found a Home in 2020
If one were to think about the words that have been heard most often this year, words like Covid-19, coronavirus, quarantine, masks, voting, election, and so forth would surely be at the top of the list.

What We Can Learn from an Employee Engagement Survey
I am a huge fan of employee engagement surveys. Years ago, while working at Holy Cross Hospital in Chicago, I discovered firsthand the link between employee engagement (back then we

Going from Thanksgiving to Thanksliving: Making Gratitude a Year-Long Habit
With the holiday season up, gratitude is likely on all of our minds. Yet gratitude doesn’t have to be something we think about only once a year at Thanksgiving. It

Healing Leader Burnout: A Few Quick Tips
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

Are you asking yourself the right questions? Twelve questions to help guide you through 2021.
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

Why An “Information Diet” is a Great Resolution for 2021.
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

A Great Mentor Has Passed. Here’s What I Learned From Him.
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

Don’t Accept Generalities. Instead, Push for Clarification.
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

Words and Phrases That Have Found a Home in 2020
If one were to think about the words that have been heard most often this year, words like Covid-19, coronavirus, quarantine, masks, voting, election, and so forth would surely be at the top of the list.

What We Can Learn from an Employee Engagement Survey
I am a huge fan of employee engagement surveys. Years ago, while working at Holy Cross Hospital in Chicago, I discovered firsthand the link between employee engagement (back then we

Going from Thanksgiving to Thanksliving: Making Gratitude a Year-Long Habit
With the holiday season up, gratitude is likely on all of our minds. Yet gratitude doesn’t have to be something we think about only once a year at Thanksgiving. It