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I am sitting with my ten year old son, fast asleep on my lap, on an overnight flight to Panama, where we will be enjoying a mid-winter, family vacation for the next few days. The darkened, white noised silence of the plane, coupled with the rise and fall of his heavy breathing, affords me a quiet moment to reflect on my day, and on a call that I had with a universally respected industry colleague, together with his brain trust, earlier in the whirlwind of my day that had me s

I recently caught up with a respected industry colleague. Over the years, I had met him a number of times both in person and on phone calls, but it had always been cursory, a typical professional relationship between wary market competitors. I had been alerted on LinkedIn of his announcing his departure from a long term employer and I reached out to offer my congratulations. We arranged to meet on Zoom and at the agreed upon time, we got to know each other and really met, for

Everywhere I turn these days, colleagues of mine who have held executive positions in the healthcare industry seem to have hung up their boots and started their own consulting shops, like I did when I left corporate employment in 2015. Why is this happening? Why now? Covid has provided experienced Executives with an opportunity to slow things down and gain fresh perspective. Many have come to realize that the frenetic and relentless pace of their former professional lives, wa

I just returned from NY where I was visiting the family of my dear great uncle who recently passed away at the ripe old age of 92. My uncle was a mountain of a man. Superhuman strength coupled with a zest for life that was palpable and infectious. An orphaned refugee at the tender age of 11, he escaped the ravages of war, famine and plague and assumed the mantle of family provider for his dear mother and siblings while establishing himself in the US as a successful businessma