Author: edickert@parthenonmgmt.net

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle The above quote from Aristotle is on the wall in our office. Every day we see that...

A friend sent me an email recently asking for some information.  His request was simple.  It was the name and contact information for a vendor that he knows we use.  His email arrived in my inbox at 4:50 PM.  I replied to him...

Over the past ten years or so, issues around conflicts of interest between physicians and other medical researchers and pharmaceutical companies have occupied a lot of time and energy among the medical and scientific societies...

I recently learned about a new type of corporation, or at least for me it is new.  It is known as a “for-profit benefit corporation”, AKA a “public benefit corporation”.  It seems that the Tennessee State Legislature is...

I recently had a wonderful vacation in the Colorado Rockies. The weather was perfect. My wife and I did not over schedule and over commit ourselves. Instead we enjoyed some very welcome down time, hiking and exploring in some...