By Nick Jacobs Recently, a very successful friend shared with me a list of quotes he had collected over the years from individuals who had influenced him during his career. These quotes came primarily from other successful leaders he had interacted with in the region where he worked. ...
By Nick Jacobs The headline, “Engineering a Comeback” by Deborah Weisberg in the Pittsburgh Quarterly, immediately caught my attention. At first, I thought it might have been a political article which was something that I had not expected from that publication. Who was it ...
By Nick Jacobs Dr. Travis Bradberry, author of the book, “Emotional Intelligence Habits,” wrote an article titled “Toxic Bosses” that hit me like a Taser. It reminded me of all my former toxic bosses. Until I got into health care administration, I’d only experienced one or two of ...
Discovering a son’s entrepreneurial spirit By Nick Jacobs He disappeared one warm spring morning, and about the same time we realized he wasn’t in the house, our phone rang. It was the preacher’s wife who lived next door. Her exact words were something like, “Nicky just sold us a used ...
By Nick Jacobs If you're lucky enough to have made it into your late seventies, it means you have been given some extra time to reflect, to look back, and hopefully to observe things that occurred in your life that you may be able to share with younger people. The idea is to try to help them ...
By Nick Jacobs Dan Buettner, a New York Times bestselling author, has spent two decades studying places in the world where longevity seems to be a given, and people simply forget to die. They live into their late 90s and early 100s as healthy, productive participants in their communities. The ...
