I feel truly bad for the outgoing Stanford University President for what looks to me as extraordinary pressure to “move fast and break things.” Every CEO feels this and has to decide if short term oriented pressures or their and their firm’s reputations long term will guide their decisions. The…

Boards of Directors in all sectors are slashing innovation budgets in the current economic environment. If your company or industry needs innovation, or you are an innovator; What should you do? In healthcare, we MUST innovate to address exploding requirements in both cybersecurity and AI. The latter two hinge on…

A great article by this Harvard researcher explains her decade of research on what distinguishes successful people and organizations in the current and future environment. They are made evident through their collaboration capabilities. Though the article also doesn’t convey how hard and costly collaboration is. Collaborative work costs enormous resources…

Research helps to explain why the most complex work in the world is at the highest risk of creating toxic work environments. The purpose of this post is to connect the dots between fascinating research tying aggressive behavior to feelings of incompetence. Research shows that the complexity which threatens feelings…

With the Non-Traditional Path to Occasional University Lecturing I have grown tremendously from teaching cybersecurity to black and women board directors at the Silicon Valley Executive Center at Leavey School of Business at SCU. It has been synergistic with the book series we lead at Medigram to rapidly and efficiently…

Superbowl is here and people have or they may be ready to place proverbial bets on who’s winning. It got us wondering, how much are today’s winning football teams the same or different from yesterday’s football franchises? It turns out, a lot different shown in the table below. The funniest…

I’ve been asked dozens of times including by incredibly successful, powerful people for advice on remote work. Why would they ask me? I am CEO of Medigram, the Mobile Medicine company and we have always been a remote first team. We’re told by a recognized leadership expert that our groundbreaking…

Medical ethics is core to the success of medical technology as a business. Most successful medical technology companies exist in partnership with physicians. The latter, who are in leadership positions, hold medical ethics in the highest esteem of professional priorities. Operationalizing compatible and required values in a technology context can…

On MLK day, I want to talk about what the “woke-anti-woke” debate in SV gets wrong. Do you need gifted talent? How about young talent? If you require neither gifted innovative talent nor young talent, then you can ignore this article. Though if you do require innovation and innovative talent…