Tips to improve your life and business Employee turnover is the single most expensive cost for small to medium-sized businesses – at least it is in our business (and from the informal research I’ve conducted with other CEOs).

Bargains allow innovation and idea generation, and can foster teamwork and deeper communication. As business owners and management executives, this question frequently confronts us. Almost 10 years ago, when we opened our doors, we had no policies. It was “workday by winging it” and often…

Have corporate rules led to major public debacles? “We seek someone fundamentally nice. Life is too short to work with anyone else.” This is the most important line in our job postings. Even though we spell out who we are looking for, that elusive nice…

ARE YOU PROUD OF YOUR LIFE’S WORK? Last weekend I lost three people through three different circumstances – my uncle, a friend and my mother’s closest friend. In moments like this, all the important work is put on hold and the emotional work begins. It’s…

At the company my husband and I founded, American Vein & Vascular Institute, our vision is: “Expertise in vein and vascular health care delivered with gratitude and grace toward the patients we serve and the colleagues with whom we work.”

While most patients whom I treat are satisfied with the initial results of vein ablations, there are some patients who return with recurrent leg symptoms — sometimes months, but usually years after the initial treatment. I also have patients with recurrent symptoms previously treated by…

The early years of founding and growing our healthcare management company, network of multi-site specialty clinics, and an independent retail company within those clinics felt like a circus. I put up the tent, hired the help, and ran the three rings—along with my physician husband.…

I hate to admit it, but it feels good to get the laundry done. We joke that on Friday night, I open the Gibbs’s 24-hour “weekend laundromat” for business. It’s one of the only tasks in my week that is repeatable and expected. It has…

Vein Therapy News | October/November 2015 It was not until I was five years into my career as a nurse that I heard the word, “phlebology.” You mean phlebotomy? No. It is, indeed, phlebology. Now, with phlebology clinic management under my belt and almost a…