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Leadership can be challenging. Responsibilities can take you away from your true north. Changes happen which can make you feel like a fish out of water. Failure happens and you have to determine what to do with that. Sometimes...

The fun part of business is that rarely do you find someone who comes to work with ill intent or a work process that was put in place to cause problems. The intention is almost always to do good, it’s just that sometimes the “how” isn’t the...

On my desk, at the corporate office for the health system I work for as well as in my office at home, I have a small scrap of paper taped down. All it says is ‘pride,’ with a circle around it and a line through it.  Like ghostbusters, I...

Gov. Eric Holcomb and U.S. Administration for Children and Families Assistant Secretary Lynn Johnson recently announced Indiana is the top state in the nation for increasing the number of children adopted from foster...

Sometimes it’s obvious. A figure stands in the doorway both sudden and timid, wanting a conversation, “Do you have a minute?” Something is wrong and they need to talk. It’s serious. They’re worried. Sometimes it’s more...

There’s a situation out there called golden handcuffs. It’s a problem some might argue they’d really, very much like to have.  Be careful what you wish for. Today I’m going to write about three people I know.  The first…...

Editor's note: Andrew Grimm is a contributing columnist at GreatNews.Life. I grew up in an underprivileged housing community with my divorced mother fighting to bring herself an education and lift us out of poverty (which she did).  No one paid...

A recent New York Times editorial — “How Health Insurers Can Be Heroes. Really.” — makes the case that health insurers have an opportunity to distinguish themselves during the COVID-19 crisis. We’re not sure if companies can be heroes, but...

Editor's note: Andrew Grimm is a contributing columnist at GreatNews.Life. John Wayne is still alive. I’ve seen him with my own eyes. He rode in one day, high on his saddle, and took out the bad guys one at a time with a six-shooter in each...

Editor's note: Andrew Grimm is a contributing columnist at GreatNews.Life. True north in leadership can be a fuzzy thing at times. You have the organization’s goals, the goals of your staff, your departments, other departments, and a lot of...