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Do your days feel mostly like a constant fire drill? Far too many in leadership roles find themselves moving from crisis to crisis, expending all their energies dealing with the next urgent issue. Worse than this, some leaders actually seem to find this type of environment preferable. They have found their...
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Published in late 1998, few books in the self-help or business category have had such amazing success in my lifetime. Who Moved My Cheese? was a New York Times business bestseller for over 5 years and has sold over 26 million copies worldwide. The author, Dr. Spencer Johnson, who passed away from cancer in...
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I love writing. I love it the way you love golf. Or skiing. Or stamping. Or drinking a good bourbon. Something in the activity gets my neurons singing happy songs to one another. I can hear them now. Can you? I wouldn’t call it an addiction. I could stop if I wanted to. I don’t …...
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ometimes you stumble across a resource that has been so personally helpful and motivating that it would almost be sinful not to share it. I feel this way about a recent audio book that I purchased called The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone. Grant is not a pharmacist, and his book has nothing to do …...
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“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day” – Mark Twain That quote from Twain is what is behind the bestselling book by Brian Tracy entitled Eat That Frog. I just read the book. And although some of his ideas can certainly...
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I work for a hospital that is having a mid-year health plan enrollment that requires everyone to select from a new list of plan choices. Nothing unusual about that. But among the posters that they have hung to try and motivate employees to be sure to enroll on time is a big one that reads “Do...
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I‘m not a perfect pharmacist. I’m not a perfect pharmacy manager either. I still have a lot to learn. But I’ve been a pharmacist for more than 20 years, and a pharmacy manager for most of that time. I have had the privilege of managing pharmacies for 3 separate companies, and along...
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In 1989 Steven Covey published his now famous “7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” It quickly became a best seller and remains one of the all time most influential business and self-development titles on the market. I have read it myself and highly recommend it. As the title implies,...
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A Simple Plan to Get Things Done this Year I have heard plenty of arguments against the practice of making resolutions. For the most part I agree with them. The tradition tends be nothing more than wishful thinking encapsulated into pithy promises which we never really intend to keep anyway. They...
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For a long time I have wanted to write an analysis of a disease that has been underdiagnosed in the cyber world: I call it Blogger Burnout. Information on this disorder is sadly lacking. An in-depth search of the medical literature turned up nothing. PubMed, with its 23 million citations, gave...
