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July 4, 2023
In January 1941, as Europe and Asia were engulfed in war, a war that within the year would draw in the United States, President Franklin D. […]
July 3, 2023
Like many people in a world where we grew up with loud music and headphones, I have tinnitus – ringing in the ears. Unlike some people […]
July 1, 2023
About 20 years ago I organized a Never Fear Never Quit conference. Two of our speakers were Alan Hobson and Jamie Clark. They’d written an inspirational […]
June 21, 2023
Because the first edition of this book was so well-received at the 2023 conference of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) earlier this year, I’m […]
June 8, 2023
I appreciate the responses to my recent post on how a Near Drowning Experience cemented my decision to block of the next seven months to take […]
June 6, 2023
Last week I had a Near Drowning Experience. On a family vacation we were on a boat in the gulf coast, anchored about 250 yards from […]
May 1, 2023
Giving the first copy of the new book to DAISY Cofounders Mark and Bonnie Barnes at the AONL 2023 Conference This week we are at the […]
April 8, 2023
Core Action Value 3 in my course on The Twelve Core Action Values is Awareness. When I’m teaching it, I’ll sometimes go around the room and […]
April 5, 2023
The Values Coach Growth-Impact Model™ I’m leading a team of graduate students from University of Iowa College of Public Health on a study of the influence […]
March 16, 2023
Can you imagine Winston Churchill having said this to the British people during the German Blitz of WW2? “Bank runs are especially dangerous because they feed […]
March 2, 2023
Over the past several weeks I’ve heard from three people who each, after 20-30 years of loyal service to their company or hospital, received a layoff […]
February 23, 2023
Mark and Bonnie Barnes, cofounders of the DAISY Foundation, have done so much to thank nurses. To date more than 2.5 million nurses around the world […]
February 20, 2023
In the movie We Bought a Zoo, Benjamin Mee (played by Matt Damon) tells his two children Dylan and Rosie how he had to muster up […]
February 16, 2023
Leadership Job #1 is to Spark and Fan Extravagant Hope This is my working definition of hope, from a slide I shared in my presentations at […]
February 6, 2023
You don’t have to hold someone’s feet to the fire when they are willing to walk across hot coals on their own Twenty years ago the […]
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 […]