In our Vision document for Rising, I specifically created a section entitled: “Associate with Greatness.” We encourage our employees to find mentors and to continue to develop. We encourage our leaders to find outside peers to associate with and learn from. Why? We know associating with the best will drive us to be the best. This is the same
I have a saying I like to repeat over and over: “One and Done.” In our vision for Rising, the concept behind “One and Done” is described this way: We know that our quality and our ability to evolve and grow depends on constant improvement and doing things right. If we think we will need to do
It is very important that the US healthcare system become less conflictual and more “win/win” for the issues we have today to ever be resolved. I often hear how horrible the insurance companies are, and there may be many times when the stories are right. I can also say that spending a week or two reviewing
I just love this quote by George Bernard Shaw quote. I have nothing to add. “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world
Every group of people is really just a tribe. Some are larger or smaller than others. Companies, countries, sports teams. They all function as tribes. When the nuclear disaster struck in Japan, again it struck me how much better their society functioned during a time of crisis than we did during Katrina. CNN wrote a great
Most of us have looked at our medical bills with confusion. I did when I had medical bills piling up. It is a separate language and art form to understand healthcare billing in our society. It is critical that someone look at your billing. It is a sad fact that many medical providers are more
I was talking to someone the other day who conducts leadership training. Once a year, she goes out with a team to work on a training event at a large multi-national corporation. She was saying that it is always a struggle to get the company to budget a little time to get the training team members engaged and aligned
