Share   I have always set goals.  When I was 12, I knew I wanted to play hockey at an Ivy League school. Either Cornell or Harvard. So I posted a picture of a Cornell hockey player (Joe Nieuwendyk) and a Harvard hockey player on my bathroom mirror.  Along the way, I had a lot of offers, [...]

Share There is a cool company in Vancouver called Lululemon. They create yoga wear, and have now expanded North American wide. They also have a cool culture, one built upon values, goals, a great manifesto, and I would add, inspiration. I have always admired how Chip Wilson, their founder (a good friend of  Nurse Next [...]

Share I used to think Core values were a bunch of airy fairy la la land words that Dilbert made fun of. And there were a few reasons for this: There are far too many bland, empty, toothless core value statements that adorn the walls of companies across North America There are far too few [...]

Share At Nurse Next Door, we LOVE our Core Values. We will only select franchise partners who LOVE them; we will only hire employees who LOVE them; and we will only work with suppliers who LOVE them. Yes, you could say that we are fanatical about our core values. Now that we have 40 franchise [...]

Share Meetings. Who likes them? Do you actually accomplish things in meetings? I just read a great post Schedule Another Meeting? You’ve Got to Be Kidding!  It reminded me of how much I think most of the meetings we do are a waste of time. And of money. One of my mentors, Cameron Herold, taught [...]

Share I am a big believer in the concept of “what gets measured gets managed.” So when I talk about measuring our core values, I am surprised at how often I am met with a blank stare. By figuring out how to measure them, you start to take your core values from being “airy fairy” [...]