Here is something old and something new that should remind you of where we have come from to get where we are and who those in charge would like to take with us into the future. The UAE is the home of the Zayeds, the source of the money for the new building. Sounds consistent …
Month: June 2013
A guest blog for your Sunday afternoon or Monday morning pleasure. Thank you HPF! Great to Good By HPF In the book “Good to Great” Jim Collins and his team of economists developed methods to determine how institutions transition from mediocrity to greatness. According to their data there is one essential element for any great …
The Mourning After By Leonard Zwelling It’s beginning to feel like Armageddon for surely this must be the end of life as we know it at MD Anderson. The large salaries and furniture budgets in IACS clearly indicate that there is no longer one kind of MD Anderson employee and/or faculty member. There …
The Bullying Pulpit June 7, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling Kevin Grigsby’s presentation in Hickey at noon on June 6 was excellent. Dr. Grigsby, a social worker by training, works for the AAMC running Leadership Development and Talent Management. Some of us on the Faculty Senate’s Anti-Bullying Task Force had the pleasure of meeting …
A few Interesting News Items for you: The first needs no explanation: http://www.thestreet.mobi/story/11942355/1/aveo-fires-140-workers-as-punishment-for-ceos-incompetence.html?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO The second shows why one institution cannot take on genomic sequencing on its own: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/health/global-partners-agree-on-sharing-trove-of-genetic-data.html?ref=science&_r=0 Finally, thanks to all who have written or come up to me in person and offered your encouragement. It really, really matters! Len Z
Boston is Not America and it Definitely Isn’t Texas June 5, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling In the hit Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, the Mormon missionaries in Uganda sing a song called “I Am Africa’ describing how they have come to appreciate the place they were sent to spread the message of Jesus …
From Blue Collar Scholar in response to my last post: Thanks. LZ The reports in The Cancer Letter and Houston Chronicle are troubling on so many levels. What’s most bothersome to me is witnessing the MDA PR/propaganda machine at work. How many state employees are working full time on damage control for poor decisions made by Drs. …
Dynasty, Dallas and DIRTT June 3, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling Well, there they go again. The rich are definitely different from you and me (F. Scott Fotzgerald). In a manner that even the Hollywood President Reagan and his free-spending wife Nancy would have seen as unseemly, MD Anderson has spent a fair …