I picked up my friend from hospital yesterday after she had some general anaesthetic they would not release her without an escort. The place was filed with people having all sorts of laser eye surgery and check ups. The staff were great, even though it's a production line, I still felt they cared a lot.

The waiting area was filled with half asleep patients. That's the recovery room so they come out of their anaesthetic and can make sense of the world before they go home. One nurse, she wasn't so friendly, she turned off the TV everyone was watching because she didn't like the show then handed my friend an envelope for customer satisfaction survey... The nurse didn't get the irony, but I did.
 
 
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When I was running my Air Pollution Control business and we were growing at an exponential rate, I couldn't keep up with the Human side of my leadership.
The signals for this were blatantly clear (in retrospect) - and they were:
  1. Always talking about "Looking forward to getting away to my Holiday House"
  2. Eating, drinking and sleeping too much
  3. Buying Corporate Models to help explain why people do what they do