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February 26, 2021
Advance registration for my webinar on Courageous Leadership in an Age of Anxiety has been so strong that the AMN Healthcare technical team has had to […]
February 25, 2021
Our world, and the environment in which your organization operates, has changed profoundly over the past year. Now more than ever your colleagues need Courage, Perseverance, […]
January 30, 2021
Anyone who has looked up over the past year has seen something only seen once in the previous 70 years or so: a sky completely devoid […]
January 26, 2021
Order The Florence Prescription Now to Assure May 2021 Delivery Nurses Week and Hospital Week are around the corner! This is a year where showing appreciation has never been […]
January 25, 2021
From President Biden’s first inaugural address Other than the brilliant poem by Amanda Gorman, this comment from Joe Biden’s inaugural address was the highlight for me. The only way […]
January 25, 2021
We all hope and pray to see a better 2021 up ahead through the windshield than the one we are leaving behind in the rearview mirror. […]
January 24, 2021
As part of the “Taking Care of Our Own” resiliency series conducted by MedEvac Foundation International, I recently gave a 50-minute webinar on Everyday Courage for Extraordinary Times (including […]
January 24, 2021
For those of us who had hoped 2021 would magically make things better than they were in 2020, the events of January 6 should be a […]
January 24, 2021
The Crimean War was memorialized in two famous poems. The Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson recounted the attack “into the valley of death” by […]
January 24, 2021
When I get a note from someone who has lost a job (which has happened more often lately), I will send them this quote by Napoleon […]
January 24, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed many healthcare workers to the edge of human endurance. While vaccines, and hopefully President Biden’s encouragement that people be more responsible […]
December 21, 2020
The first movement of Mozart’s 25th Symphony is all fire and fury. Its ominous opening bars set the stage for the 1985 movie Amadeus, which won 8 […]
December 15, 2020
What greater tragedy could befall a man whose entire life, and livelihood, revolves around music than losing the ability to hear sounds? Ludwig von Beethoven began […]
December 13, 2020
Imagine spending 24 hours in a frigid meat locker with 26 other people. Now imagine having to do that for 634 consecutive days during which the […]
December 8, 2020
And Why We Need You to Stay Strong For Us The first time Muhammad Ali fought Ken Norton it was supposed to be an easy tune-up […]
May 14, 2016
Negative self-talk is telling yourself lies and then believing those lies. As you embrace the untruth, it becomes your reality. One of the most seductive and […]
May 16, 2016
Jim Collins is one of the most widely-read authors on business leadership today, and deservedly so. His books, including Built to Last and From Good to […]
May 25, 2016
The year was 1866. Caleb Abel stood on a bluff not far from the Cedar River and brushed the dirt from his hands, thankful for the […]
June 13, 2016
Tonia Wallace is Director Women’s and Children’s Services at Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, Texas. When we began the Culture of Ownership Initiative in early 2014, […]
June 16, 2016
I recently sent a letter to a poet whose work I greatly admire (he’d made a very nice comment about my book The Healing Tree). He responded […]