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WTF Wednesday. "What's the Focus?" Featuring: The Weight of Being the Truth-Teller Every team has one. The person who finally says the thing everyone else tiptoes around.   The one who names the elephant.   The one who calls the meeting what it   actually   is. The person who finally says the thing everyone else tiptoes around. The one who mutters, “This is a terrible idea,” while everyone else silently panics. The one who risks the side-eye, the silence, or the dreaded:   “C

Because sometimes leadership lessons come with balsamic dressing .   A few years back, I went on a sales call with a home health exec.   We were having lunch with one of the driest, most awkward physicians on the account list — the kind who blinks once every five minutes and never cracks a smile, and grunts as a means of communication.   Mid-lunch, I somehow managed to dump an entire container of salad dressing into my shoe. Not on my shoe.  In it.   The sales rep saw it happ

This Week's WTF Moment - "Why That's Funny" If you’re a healthcare leader, you already know: some weeks feel like you’re running a triage center for people’s emotions, egos, and expectations — and that’s before lunch.   Oh wait… we don’t eat lunch.   So let’s start with a story.   Remember that little pandemic we had? 😵‍💫   It was the height of COVID. Our leadership team wanted to show staff how much we appreciated them during the holidays. We brainstormed, debated, and fi