After Olympian Sasha Cohen failed to qualify for the 2010 Olympics, she suddenly found herself “retired” from figure skating, and lost direction in her life. At the young age of 25, Cohen had to figure out what to do next. Having worked with people leaving jobs or changing careers, I think that she perfectly captures […]
The Entrepreneurial Spirt of Immigrants
I was fascinated by this article on why immigrants make such good entrepreneurs that I recently found in the Wall Street Journal. The energy and outsider’s perspective of immigrants, coupled with their resilience in dealing with the inevitable challenges of immigration, seem to be important characteristics for successful entrepreneurs. The author notes that “seeing with […]
Morven Education Committee Visits Johnson & Johnson Museum
I recently joined other members of the Historic Morven Education Committee for a tour of the Johnson & Johnson Museum in New Brunswick. Legendary CEO Robert Wood Johnson was a former resident of Morven and is said to have written Johnson & Johnson’s Credo while sitting in front of a fireplace at the historic house. […]
Navigating Office Politics
Even the best managers cannot always ensure that their organizations are meritocracies. According to a recent article by the Harvard Business Review, office politics can corrupt the search for high-potential employees. The article postulates that there are six factors that prevent organizations from putting the right people in leadership roles: the politics of intuition, self-interest, […]
Improving Rural Health Care
Allison Suttle of the Harvard Business Review recently wrote an article about how technology has been implemented to help improve rural health care. Suttle cites an integrated EMR platform that has been rolled out to 45 hospitals already as a major key in technologies help. The EMR platform is programmed to integrate uniform, evidence-based treatment […]
Looking to Immigrants for Geniuses
Frank Bruni of the New York Times recently wrote an interesting article on how we should welcome immigrant in order to find geniuses. For example according to the MacArthur Foundation, of the 965 “geniuses” or otherwise known as MacArthur fellows, 209 were born outside the United States. That’s approximately 22% while a 2010 census report showed […]