Helping Your Team to Embrace Change

Helping Your Team to Embrace Change

By: Susan Boydell | sboydell@barlowmccarthy.com “There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” –...
Want to Advance? Remember the Alamo

Want to Advance? Remember the Alamo

By: Jeff Cowart, MAH | jcowart@barlowmccarthy.com Growth is the driving force today in most conversations from the boardroom to the mirror. We desire better in everything from the bottom line to our personal circumstance. Why then does it seem so hard to get traction...
Positioning Against Active Inertia

Positioning Against Active Inertia

By: Jeff Cowart, MAH | jcowart@barlowmccarthy.com The inflexibility and even arrogance of holding current position when evidence of threat or opportunity is substantial is perhaps the most common characteristic of failure for companies, products, leaders, causes,...
About Those Resolutions

About Those Resolutions

By: Jeff Cowart, MAH | jcowart@barlowmccarthy.com The beginning of a new year, the launch of a new goal, a significant change in direction – all of these are opportunities for reflection on where we’ve been and where we’re going. Usually, this reflection is...

Stretching Your Skills – CliffsNotes Version!

By: Mike Harristhal, MBA | mharristhal@barlowmccarthy.com “The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.” – Harvey Mackay These are not original thoughts, but a reminder of three basic things that are foundational to success in our careers:...

Management and Leadership Relevance in Times of Change

By: Jeff Cowart, MAH | jcowart@barlowmccarthy.com “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”  – Bill Bradley We hear a great deal these days about the rapidly changing healthcare landscape and the call for managers and leaders to be great...