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Great Kitchen - No Outlets! (So there WAS a reason for that blueprint)

posted on September 2, 2010

Many years ago my ex-husband and I were building a home.  It wasn’t anything fancy, but it was our first home, and we were excited.  I was in hospital risk management at that time and therefore worked many hours. Read more »

Author: Penny Crow

Communication is a Strategy

posted on September 1, 2010

I have never understood the phenomena of executive leadership that do not listen to their employees.  Frequently, I go to a client’s site to perform an operations assessment and discover that the leadership really has no clue as to what is happening in their companies.  I can only make this observation after meeting with the executives to get their ‘story’ of the business and the directives given to the staff.  I then interview s Read more »

Author: Penny Crow

The Power of Personal Development

posted on August 31, 2010

It is the time of year when executive leaders begin planning for the next year’s business and corporate growth.  Sometimes we do this through retreats, leadership workshops, or team building exercises.  As part of my personal planning process, I recently participated in a 21-day program conducted by Champions Edge.  I began the program with Read more »

Author: Penny Crow

Due Diligence

posted on August 30, 2010

As a business strategy consultant, I have seen many organizations violate the trust of their employees by not having documented procedures.  It isn’t enough to tell someone your expectations.  You must document them for permanent record, for training, and for communication.  It doesn’t matter if you have one employee or thousands; each employee expects and deserves to have an environment safe from injustice. Read more »

Author: Penny Crow

How To Use An Office Correctly

posted on August 24, 2010

If you spend a lot of your day in your office, you are probably not as effective as you think. Most home and business offices allow us to become easily distracted as soon as we sit down, especially if they are reserved for multiple purposes, business projects, meetings, administration, etc. Most managers, business owners and entrepreneurs aren't even aware of the distractions because they are so used to dealing with them, but dealing with them costs productivity and emotional cycles.Something to ponder: Read more »

Author: Dag Nybo

The Story of an Organization and Their Struggle to Achieve Operational Efficiency

posted on August 23, 2010

Last fall I arrived at a client hospital site and felt as though I had fallen into the land of Winnie the Pooh.  The manager of the department seemed to focus only on patient privacy issues, very similar to Pooh with his honey. Read more »

Author: Penny Crow

Executive Leadership Means Making Tough Decisions

posted on August 15, 2010

One of the hardest things for hospital personnel to deal with is a disaster that affects the whole town.  Often I still have flashbacks to a time when there was a chemical spill at a manufacturing plant in our community.  Several of the men were brought into the emergency room.  As risk manager who has performed numerous operations assessments, I had two primary responsibilities during a disaster – neither was pleasant.  The Read more »

Author: Penny Crow

Is there a need right now?

posted on August 11, 2010

When looking at technology products over the last decade you see many big name products from vendors that fit a major need at the right time. VMware is a great example of hitting the market with a product that fit a big need, consolidation and slowing down server sprawl, at the right time. They were not the first to have virtualization, which can be traced back decades. However they were in the right place and the right time. Read more »

Author: Clint Eschberger

Live, learn, grow!

posted on August 10, 2010

Author: Brad Closson

What Principles Guide Your Business?

posted on August 9, 2010

If you are a sports fan then you probably know that there were 7 incredible men inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame this weekend.  Each had moving speeches but the one that has caught the attention by most was made by Emmitt Smith...NFL's all time Rusher.  The success he had with the Dallas Cowboys will likely never be seen again.

Author: Coach Tammy G (Tammy Gentry)