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One Good Idea Can Change Your Life
One Good Idea Can Change Your LifeA brief story about Ernest Henderson Do what it takes to find good ideas. The reason? One good idea can change your life. And lots of good ideas can lead to undreamed of success! Let me explain why I say this by sharing a brief story...
Be the Person Others Want to Do Business With: Be fair
Be the Person Others Want to Do Business With: Be fairThe Beginnings of the Sheraton Hotel The international Sheraton Hotel Chain grew from an investment of just $1000. My father, his brother, and his college roommate received war bonuses after their military service...
Heart Disease In Women: It’s Different
Heart Disease In Women: It’s DifferentHEART DISEASE IS A WOMAN’S DISEASE In the 1950s, we all thought heart disease was a man’s disease. However, more women are dying of heart disease than men. Also, even though the mortality rates for both men and women are...
Prevent Nightmare House of Horrors: Family Business Quarrel, Part 2
Prevent Nightmare House of Horrors: Family Business Quarrel, Part 2 To prevent a Family Business Quarrel 1. Create a culture emphasizing that family members are part of something bigger than themselves. Being too self-centered is a danger in a family business....
Preventing Nightmare House of Horrors, a Family Quarrel, Part 1
Preventing Nightmare House of Horrors, a Family Quarrel, Part 1Since you’re here reading this, the subject probably hits close to home. If so, you have my entire sympathy. If ever there’s a high stakes situation, it’s the family quarrel in a family business. I’ve had...
Four Things Frank Perdue Did to Encourage Employee Engagement
Four Things Frank Perdue Did to Encourage Employee Engagement Employee engagement is one of the most important – possibly the most important factor in an organization’s success. When I look at how Frank Perdue (my late husband) built his chicken company from a...
Employee Engagement – Gallup Really Knows!
Employee Engagement - Gallup Really Knows!Visit Gallup, the People Who Really Know There are 1.3 billion full-time employees in the world. Give a guess: how many feel enthusiastic about and committed to their work? 1) 13% 2) 30% 3) 82% 4) How the heck could anybody...
Recurrent Vaginitis
Recurrent VaginitisMOST WOMEN WILL AT SOME TIME EXPERIENCE VAGINITIS At some point in their lives, most women will experience vaginitis. It’s one of the most common gynecologic condition encountered in the office. Typically, it comes about when the yeast or bacteria...
Take Action: Beating Your Competitors
Take Action: Beating Your Competitors Act Faster Than Your Competitors The super-successful people I’ve known have all had a huge propensity for action. They had tremendous agility in carrying out projects rapidly. I remember one night in late 1951, my father Ernest...
Transforming Cardiovascular Disease Prevention In Women
Transforming Cardiovascular Disease Prevention In WomenCARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CVD) IS USA’S LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH FOR WOMEN One in four women will die of CVD, and to put this in perspective, the annual CVD mortality for women is double that of all forms of cancer...
Obesity In Women: New Insights
Obesity In Women: New InsightsOBESITY HAS MORE IMPACT THAN ANY OTHER CHRONIC DISEASE Obesity has enormous impact, partly because it is so widespread and partly because it exacerbates so many other disease states. In the US, there are 93 million Americans with...
Fingernail Infections
Fingernail InfectionsFINGERNAIL INFECTIONS AFFECT WOMEN MORE THAN MEN In contrast to toenail infections, fingernail infections, especially those caused by candida, impact more women than men. This happens because often women’s jobs as housekeepers or dishwashers...
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