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First things, first, I want to acknowledge fellow-Coloradoan Chuck Blakeman for inspiring me to write this blog. His philosophies about business leadership resonate with me, and much of the content below is a direct reflection of his insights. For years, I’ve thought that my philosophies about corporate culture and beliefs were too unusual to practice openly, but […]
When I started teaching at Northwestern in 2005, it had been a quite a few years since I’d been in an academic setting for anything other than guest lectures. In the time that had expired towards 2005, the students all had laptops and the classrooms had WiFi. I thought the student were taking notes and […]
Most of this blog and much of the inspiration originally appeared in LifeHack, one of my favorite web sites, written by Sarah Hansen, one of my favorite writers. I made a few edits and added one more entry — passionate people have a sense of humor. There are a number of clinical studies in the field […]
Awards and recognition programs for teammates and employees are a critically important aspect of an organization’s culture. But it’s not difficult for them to have the opposite intended effect, by recognizing employees who don’t deserve it, failing to recognize those who do, or losing the sincerity of the recognition altogether — that is, going through […]
So what do we do in the near term? Is there anything we can do, realistically, to better track the progress of diseases like Ebola, given our existing ecosystem of information systems in healthcare? As you can see from the list below, we could do better than nothing and the existing state of affairs, but any current […]
