Avoiding the Leadership Bubble

Edward Koch, the often brash and eclectic former Mayor of the City of New York was famous for asking residents (voters) “How’m I doin’?”  From construction workers and ordinary people of the street, to well-heeled financial supporters on the...

Leadership Jerk Alert

What does it say about a person’s leadership style – who they are as a man or woman – when they believe that yelling or screaming at employees in front of their colleagues or in private will actually improve sustainable operating results? #183748446 /...

Heart And Soul

Sports fans love the athlete who has heart.  They revere the woman or man who will sacrifice their bodies, who will push themselves to the very limits of their emotional and physical capacity to help their team, or to win it all outright. Employees love and admire the...

Sandy Lutz Death Announced

We mourn the loss of Sandy Lutz, a PriceWaterhouseCoopers Health Institute leader and former Dallas bureau chief of Modern Healthcare. She was an amazing reporter, author and, above all else, a great wife and mother.   She was also a friend to so many of us in...

It’s Not All Bad News

“Brothers and Sisters:  Before we open our hymnals and sing the many grim verses of ‘Now Comes the Hard Part’, the Post-Election Day quadrennial dirge, the congregation is kindly requested to engage in a brief interlude of soul replenishing joy.”  So began David...