Leadership Reverie

Life is all about metaphors and personal stories. I wanted a place to collect random thoughts, musings, and stories about leadership in general and more specifically on leadership and management in health care.

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Red light, yellow light, green light, GO!

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A few years ago, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at my former hospital came up with what I thought was a brilliant initiative focuse...
Monday, January 26, 2026

For nearly a quarter of a century, nursing is the most trusted profession!

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Gallup released the results of their annual Honesty and Ethics of Professions survey earlier this month, and once again nursing ranked as th...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Pure Magic and the Hardest Song in the World to Sing

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If you've ever been to a Chicago Blackhawks game, you would not have been so surprised to hear Jim Cornelison's singing of our natio...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

"But if you keep your nose down in life and keep working, anything is possible..."

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Congratulations to the Indiana University Hoosiers for winning their first EVER National Championship in college football last night!  They...
Monday, January 19, 2026

In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

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Today we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Day.  President Ronald Reagan signed a bill in 1983 marking the third Monday of every January ...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

"Don't send me a customer satisfaction survey in the middle of the night!!!"

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One of the real advantages (among many others, of course) of being a pediatric critical care physician is that I can literally fall asleep a...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Deaths by horse kick...

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A couple of years ago, I came across an editorial in the journal Anaesthesia that caught my attention - "Deaths by horsekick in the Pr...
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