tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67137402423943694272011-07-28T09:14:57.470-07:00<a href="http://www.mlcandassociates.com/mlc/rss2html.php?XMLFILE=http://mlcfromtheheart.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default&TEMPLATE=nai_template.htm">http://www.mlcandassociates.com</a>Dr. Don Saraccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04342773310268325174noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713740242394369427.post-54335599470981149562009-08-18T13:48:00.000-07:002009-08-18T14:00:13.734-07:00

A Hospital is not a business, or is it?Everyone would agree that an average Hospital and an average widget factory are worlds apart, but are they? Some would think that I should be placed in an asylum for even asking this question.Most businesses know that to succeed a good vision, well thought out strategic plan and efficient business processes are needed to succeed. Many hospitals do have a

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A colleague of mine recently saw a bit of social research that reported people's perceptions of behaviors that deserve firing. One that stood out for me was that the respondents felt that managers who displayed emotions too strongly and displayed excessive histrionics (especially profanity) in the workplace should be fired. This gave me pause.I am a passionate person in many ways. One of the

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Meetings serve many different functions here at MLC, everything from weekly internal staff meetings to multi-million dollar contract negotiations. While our meetings cover a wide range, they are known by our clients and our team for being very good. This is because they are productive. I thought I'd take the time to share a couple of the characteristics of MLC meetings, which add up to a

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Relationships in business, like in our personal lives, requires a little give and take. All parties need to bring something of value to the table, or the relationship is off-balance. "Value" can be measured in a variety of ways; money, companionship, loyalty, trust . . . the list goes on. One of the most prevalent values in a business relationship is information. Salespeople give information

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In the end you can have planned all the right behavior and learned all the right principles and committed yourself to being good to yourself even when it hurts, but if you do nothing then nothing happens, nothing changes, and you cannot be good to yourself in any way that matters. The bottom line is that you must DO SOMETHING. In the very United States of America we value a bias toward action.

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The next piece of the personal goodness puzzle is the the most difficult for many people to adopt. It is embracing accountability. We are not a really good society for embracing accountability anymore. I think we were at one time. Perhaps in the world that Normal Rockwell drew. There is just so much sense of entitlement these days. Personally I blame the trial lawyers. Many of them make a

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Being Good to Yourself, Again Okay. If you show up and you pay attention, you are forty percent of the way there. But it gets harder. This is where you begin to make choices about how you will be a part of things that get done. This is where you choose the quality of your actions. I believe that the standard that we must apply is to choose those actions and only those actions that add value

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Even More on Being Good to Yourself Okay, if you show up and bring all you have when you do, is that enough to bring out the absolute best that you can be? Not by a long shot. There is much more. If there were not more to it, life would be fairly easy. The next piece as I see it is not about what you bring to the party but how you behave when you get there. Perhaps chief among the things

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More on Being Good to Yourself Well, I have once again learned something. By that I mean not only that I have learned another new thing, but that I have learned again something that I have previously known, but apparently not known well. A commenter on this blog asked if I were familiar with the work of Ken Wilber. The truthful answer was, “Not on my best day!” Of course I had to find out

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The other day I was at a business luncheon, and I had to listen to the owner of a chain of franchise restaurants complain how difficult it is to get employees (teenagers) to say “Thank You” to customers. This man was outraged that his minimum wage employees were more concerned about texting their friends than contributing to America’s obesity epidemic. The conversation was centered around

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“Good Health” can be measured in a variety of ways. Some choose to count calories, others count weight – both their own and that of the gym equipment they push, pull, lift, and pedal. By engaging in healthy behavior, the logic goes, one will be healthy. The other method of measurement is to be proactive in finding and eliminating the risk of “Bad Health,” in monitoring conditions that may

Jonathan DiBenedettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12418215854370129417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713740242394369427.post-88160541167019839002008-03-31T10:27:00.000-07:002008-03-31T10:39:36.767-07:00

It’s a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.--Writer W. Somerset MaughamOne of the most important tasks of a great leader is hiring and keeping the most talented people. As a business leader, I'm sure you've asked the question, "How do I hire the “right” people for my team and, in turn, for the company?" In today’s business world, each

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I don’t like the word “curvedness” very much even though it is correct. I wanted the word to be “curvyness” which I think is much more poetic and curvy in its own right. No matter, a rose by any other name and all that. The principle still applies and that is what I want to comment upon. Humans are curvy and I don’t only mean in the rather nice way that it is true for the female of the

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Many years ago I had the pleasure of working with a gentleman that I came to respect for his self-awareness and dedication to doing the right thing. He taught me a great deal even though most of the lessons did not really “hit home” until years later. Perhaps the greatest impact on me came from a simple daily admonition as we parted at the end of the day to “Be good to yourself.” First

Dr. Don Saraccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04342773310268325174noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6713740242394369427.post-33895911783351430442008-02-22T13:10:00.000-08:002008-02-22T13:14:41.758-08:00

If there is anything we have learned in my more than twenty years in business it is that most managers and executives really do care about the people in their team, department, or organization. Oh, they may talk tough and even steel themselves against the pain when they must take administrative steps to discipline, correct, or terminate, or "rightsize" but they feel the pain nonetheless. I have

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