Cord Blood Gives the Gift of Life

I’m please to share this from a couple of former Wake Forest EMBA students of mine, Pamela and Tim Lietz:
To all:
Check out the link below to WFMY’s link to Pamela’s segment on this morning’s local CBS Good Morning news show.  She was on at 6:50 this morning talking about her Cord Blood Bank program.
http://www.digtriad.com/news/GMS/article.aspx?storyid=108191&catid=67
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Dennis Quaintance and Proximity Hotel: Clean and Green

If you look in your current issue of Forbes magazine (August 11, 2008), on page 34, it looks to us like a picture of the solar panels from the Proximity Hotel in Greensboro, North Carolina. We’ve sent a message to the author of the story asking for confirmation. In the Forbes story, they [...]

Meet our WFU ROCC Stars!

Dr. Bruce Rubin and Nurse Kay Ashburn work in the Brenner Children’s Hospital at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, but they do reserve a spot every so often for their oldest patient–Aneil.
Aneil met them after his “botched” sinus surgery and they have been working with him ever since to try to help him breathe [...]

New Networking Group on LinkedIn.Com

Friends:
We have just created a networking group on LinkedIn for everyone who has read our new book.  The initial purpose is to share ideas and insights about how to become more trustworthy leaders, as well as to network about professional opportunities and discuss career issues.  We will be integrating this networking group [...]

Meet our ROCC stars from Two Men and a Truck

This is a picture of Mary Ellen, Melanie, Brig and Jon–the family that founded and runs Two Men and a Truck, International. Their story is amazing and is prominently featured in our new book, “Trust is Everything: Become the Leader Others Will Follow.” Mary Ellen founded the company and trusted her kids to [...]

Hold onto Trust in Changing Times

The first thing to go when times get tough is trust–we tend to hoard information and resources and keep all of the decision making close at hand.  All of these actions reinforce distrust–people wonder why you aren’t sharing information and then they don’t share information either.  People wonder why you won’t share resources and then [...]

GM to Cut Spending Further, but No New Growth Plans Announced

This from today’s Wall Street Journal:
General Motors Corp., battered by a steep decline in U.S. sales, said Tuesday it will raise $15 billion in liquidity by 2009 through potential asset sales, cost cutting and other financing measures as the auto maker attempts to weather a tough downturn in the U.S. market.
Amid the bleak operating environment, [...]

Google Tries to Ignore Economics, Employees, and Public Opinion

Well, well, well.  It appears that Google is indeed like most other companies, and not an entity unto itself.  It thought I could ignore 1) the Law of Supply and Demand, 2) its own employees’ opinions, and 3) public opinion.  It definitely couldn’t ignore 1).  We’ll see how long it can ignore 2) and 3).
According [...]

Another ROCC Star, Dr. Kevin Lobdell

Aneil and Kevin are in Toledo, Ohio today, giving a talk entitled “Quality Improvement and Transformational Change:  The Role of the Trusted Leader” to physicians, staff, and health care managers at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center.
Kevin Lobdell, M.D. is Director of the Adult and Pediatric CV Critical Care, and is Associate Director of the Cardiothoracic [...]