Healthcare is big business and getting even bigger. I’m interested, since as a “boomer,” I will likely be up for lots of healthcare costs in the future. Luckily, I’m healthy at the moment and dealing with only minor health issues (knees hurt, cholesterol is problematic and such). Yet, despite reasonable planning, I know that a catastrophic medical problem for either me or my spouse could easily prove financially disastrous.
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Healthcare, Leadership, Management
According to some brief research, I’ve discovered that employer provided healthcare is really an accident. Apparently, the combination of advances in medical technology, hospitals in the early 20th century needing to make sure their beds were filled and people wanting to pay a fixed amount for hospital care resulted in the formation of the precursor to Blue Cross.
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Healthcare, Leadership, Management
Unlike some, I am not one to advocate punishing the “upper class.” There are calls for punishing those who consume conspicuously, take home many hundreds of times more than the average worker and insulate themselves from those who “do the work.”
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Ethical Corporation, Leadership, Management
A friend volunteers a the local public library where he sorts and prices the donated books for the used bookstore portion of the library. He knows I speak on Business Ethics and so he called the other day to announce that he had a “really old book” titled “Ethics in Practice.”
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Governance, Leadership, Management, Shaping the Corporate Culture
I admit to being curious about most things. It doesn’t take much to get my mind wondering: “How does that do that?” “Why did they program it that way?” “I wonder what would happen if I . . . ”
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Growing Edges, Leadership, Management, Shaping the Corporate Culture
If you’ve been following the posts on this blog, you will recognize the similarity between the comments I have made about the art of networking with the comments made on the sales process. The sales skill ladder has four rungs: Product Base Selling, Solution Based Selling, Consultative Selling and finally Trust Based Selling. As I’ve mentioned with respect to sales, the first three rungs are salesperson oriented. The fourth rung is truly, genuinely, authentically client focused. We have the clients best interest at heart. It’s the same for networking!
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Communication, Growing Edges, Networking, Sales
Yesterday, I got on my soapbox concerning networking etiquette and what I believe networking really is all about. And that is building trust and long term relationships. I mentioned that it is a long and difficult process. It is also highly rewarding.
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Communication, Growing Edges, Networking, Sales
I’ve managed, somehow, to develop a network of colleagues who will often refer folks to me for many different reasons; potential clients, business owners, and increasingly executives in transition. This economy has become very challenging for everyone.
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Communication, Networking, Sales
In a previous post, we looked at the work done by Ram Nidumolu and M.R. Rangaswami in which they stated that there is no alternative to sustainable development. And they identified the five stage process on the road to sustainability. In this, the final post on this article, I summarize “A Few Simple Rules” on the road to sustainability.
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Ecology, Ethics, Leadership, Management, Sustainability
In a previous post, we looked at the work done by Ram Nidumolu and M.R. Rangaswami in which they stated that there is no alternative to sustainable development. And they identified the five stage process on the road to sustainability. This post discusses Stage 5 of 5.
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Ecology, Ethics, Leadership, Management, Sustainability
