MLC from the Heart
A Hospital is not a business, or is it?Everyone would agree that an average Hospital and an average widget factory are worlds apart, but are they? Some would think that I should be placed in an asylum for even asking this question.Most businesses know that to succeed a good vision, well thought out strategic plan and efficient business processes are needed to succeed. Many hospitals do have a
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A colleague of mine recently saw a bit of social research that reported people's perceptions of behaviors that deserve firing. One that stood out for me was that the respondents felt that managers who displayed emotions too strongly and displayed excessive histrionics (especially profanity) in the workplace should be fired. This gave me pause.I am a passionate person in many ways. One of the
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Meetings serve many different functions here at MLC, everything from weekly internal staff meetings to multi-million dollar contract negotiations. While our meetings cover a wide range, they are known by our clients and our team for being very good. This is because they are productive. I thought I'd take the time to share a couple of the characteristics of MLC meetings, which add up to a
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Relationships in business, like in our personal lives, requires a little give and take. All parties need to bring something of value to the table, or the relationship is off-balance. "Value" can be measured in a variety of ways; money, companionship, loyalty, trust . . . the list goes on. One of the most prevalent values in a business relationship is information. Salespeople give information
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The Bottom Line
Posted July 29th, 2008 at 10:46 AM
In the end you can have planned all the right behavior and learned all the right principles and committed yourself to being good to yourself even when it hurts, but if you do nothing then nothing happens, nothing changes, and you cannot be good to yourself in any way that matters. The bottom line is that you must DO SOMETHING. In the very United States of America we value a bias toward action.
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