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“When Franklin Roosevelt died, I felt there must be a million men better qualified than I to take up the Presidential task. But the work was mine to do, and I had to do it. And I have tried to give it everything that was in me.” — Harry S. Truman, Farewell Address to the [...]
I was starting to get frustrated. “Thank you for explaining it again but, based on what you’re telling me, I still don’t know which option is best,” I told the very nice Verizon Wireless representative, who had been detailing the different data plans for our new managing editor’s iPhone. “What I would like to do [...]
For 10 years, I commuted between Northern New Jersey and Manhattan. Referring specially to the commute, those were 10 long and painful years. So painful, in fact, there is a definite kinship between those who have endured the same sentence for cosmic crimes unknown. Among the many reasons the commute was so arduous is that [...]
Andrew Carnegie may have made lots of money, and given away almost all he didn’t lavishly spend on himself, but I don’t think anyone would cite him as an exemplary leader or manager of men. While reaping huge profits, he refused to pay his workers one cent more than the prevailing market rate; and constantly [...]
As leaders, you make no more important business decisions than those around personnel. In most cases, you join a hospital or health system that has an IT team in place. Over time, you dismiss those who won’t buy into your system or adhere to your work ethic, promote those who do, and bring in new [...]
People are fond of spending a few moments at year’s end to take stock of their lives and commit to improvements in the form of “New Year’s resolutions.” Of course, these have largely become a cliché for that which is planned, but never brought to fruition. While most resolutions deal with physical fitness, almost always [...]
Much like the grinding of tectonic plates, the collision of two strategies can produce serious tremors. When it comes to the two I’m thinking of, you, the CIO, stand astride the fault line. On the one hand, we have the ever more prevalent strategy of organizations — with an eye toward an accountable care future [...]
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