Our society often encourages us to suppress our emotions, so our vocabulary for describing our emotions is limited, leading to a lack of self-awareness and emotional intelligence. By ignoring our feelings, we risk burnout, poor relationships, and a diminished quality [...]

Understanding the Art of Connection When engaging in meaningful conversations, the concepts of the matching principle and mirroring are key to fostering understanding and connection, though they differ in approach. Understanding these two techniques, helps you enhance your ability to [...]

Have you ever walked away from a conversation feeling like something was missing, even though you thought it went well? Or struggled to break through someone's guard and establish a genuine connection? The secret to building stronger relationships lies in [...]

The Galapagos left a lingering impact on how I see the world since I visited several weeks ago. It is a reminder how, in William Wordsworth’s poem “Tintern Abbey", nature is a force we can leverage as “our nurse, [...]

I have observed both the pitfalls and successes spearheading mergers and acquisitions  in healthcare. Studies put the M&A failure rate somewhere between 70% and 90%, according to Harvard Business Review. This statistic remains unchanged and in our current complex [...]

I grew up in a large Irish family. I was one of five children. Our way to resolve conflict was to vocalize your feelings, raise your voice, argue and color it with some humor if the mood fit. Later [...]

A veil of silence fell as the clack of her footsteps reverberated on the polished wood floors. The air felt heavy with anticipation as she walked towards the stage at the school assembly. Although she rose just under five [...]

Imagine a future where it is difficult to see your physician, as a result, you must go to an overcrowded emergency room and then wait weeks, perhaps months, to get a specialty appointment. That future is Now. A significant [...]

Master Storytelling to build trust, spark creativity and incite action I grew up in Ireland listening to and observing storytellers bringing people to life with colorful language and expressions, often told with a bit of embellishment each time the [...]

Sobering statistics, worth repeating from Due Diligence: Strategy is Not Enough, up to 70 to 90 percent of mergers and acquisitions fail due to inadequate Due Diligence. One would think at this stage we have learned some best practices [...]

The failure rate for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) sits between 70 percent and 90 percent, according to collated research from a recent Harvard Business Review report. The reasons for such a high rate of failure include Inadequate Due Diligence. M&A [...]

Real strategy is hard and especially hard given the global pandemic where our assumptions have shifted quickly and unpredictably. How do you create an effective strategy given this dynamic changing environment?First let’s define what strategy is and is not. Strategy [...]