Almost three years, to the day, I was terminated from what I thought was the ‘Prince of my Career.’ The day before, I had trained two colleagues, and the day of, I was preparing to attend a Regional Meeting meant to be preparing us for...
Sales training for a medical device company is the cross between mini medical school and spring break, sans the wet t-shirt contest. Wet scrub contest just doesn’t have the same ring to it. And working over a cadaver, hung over, is never, and I mean,...
January 30, 2014 Off With Their Heads...
Buffett’s holding company Berkshire Hathaway, are drastically reducing exposure to stocks that depend on consumer purchasing habits. Berkshire sold roughly 19 million shares of Johnson & Johnson.* And stories like Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon/Gynecare destroying documents for the upcoming mesh trials seem to support Mr. Buffett's...
A study suggests that both Web- and telehealth-based treatments of insomnia show promise and are worthy of further development and study. http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/Health-News/insomnia-internet-web-sleep/2014/01/10/id/546485...
Ironic today’s post is about transparency in healthcare costs: January 30, 2014 "Penis pumps cost the U.S. government’s Medicare program $172 million between 2006 and 2011, about twice as much as the consumer would have paid at the retail level, according to a government watchdog’s report released...
Weird-there are never articles about people who need to talk more and listen less. I guess I should take notes from Jacquline Whitmore’s article from Entrepreneur (Janauary 13, 2014), 5 Ways to Be a Better Listener: 1. Open up your body language. Your body language reveals your interest or...
Friends that stick by you in hard times are worth their weight in gold; and, if those friends can make you laugh, well they’re worth their weight in platinum. My former company is having their National Sales Meeting in my town this week. It’s bettersweet. ...