by Mary Pat Whaley | Sep 10, 2008 | Innovation
TED is Technology, Entertainment, Design and the TED Conference which began as a way to bring together thinkers from the three converging fields, will celebrate 25 years in 2009. My son told me about TED Talks a few months ago, and I loved the very first TED Talk I...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Sep 9, 2008 | Innovation, Memes
My practice spends about $9,000 a year going to the bank. That’s what it costs for the time it takes for one person to open the envelopes, separate the checks from the EOBs, add the check totals, stamp the backs of the checks, copy/scan the checks, write the...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Sep 8, 2008 | Day-to-Day Operations
Here’s my new Monday Special – a few links and tools that might be the answer you’ve been looking for. Have you ever come back from a meeting and hustled to the Internet to find out what a particular acronym means? Here’s a quick link to...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Sep 7, 2008 | Leadership
I’ve always advised my children that if they can use its and it’s appropriately, if they can balance their checkbooks and can fry an egg, then they can be wildly successful in the world. In other words, if they paid attention briefly in English, Math and...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Sep 5, 2008 | A Career in Practice Management
This is the curse of many working woman with children, and one that I struggled with until both kids moved out of the house (for the second and third times.) Here’s a heartfelt and interesting post and comments from Penelope Trunk’s blog Brazen Careerist. ...