Your rivers of thinking either carry you toward your goals or away from them. The question is: Are you steering the boat, or just floating downstream?

America needs a respectable Brookdale, not just a money machine to enrich those who value money before people.

The magic isn’t just in doing this once — it’s in making “impact awareness” a regular part of how you lead.

It is the natural tendency of leaders to cling to power. But what if being a great leader meant letting go of power?

Do you have the ambition, energy, determination, and derring-do to lead change? Change will take capital, determination, resilience, and talent.

That’s the true measure of leadership success — not what you do, but who you develop. It’s the ripple effect you create through others.

Activist investors target senior living — are profits being prioritized over people at Brookdale and beyond?

Brookdale is in the people business, but they seem to think that all they need to know is how to make money. That’s vapid.

Have you ever come up with a great idea that you want, and need, your team to implement, and they all seem on board, but it goes nowhere?

It may be that I am not the right person to fix Brookdale, but the one tune that keeps running through my head is this …

Brookdale’s future will be determined by how effectively the board supports change and how effectively the new leadership realizes the opportunity.

Imagine instead your team members, even those on the front line, being part of the goal-setting process

Team members will never tell you that fear is a problem. It is worthwhile to be honest with yourself about this.

Think about how many times you have felt joy when one of these meetings was canceled or postponed.

If Brookdale can outgrow its lethargy, it has the potential to become a great American company.

For all my criticism, I have always believed, and I continue to believe, that Brookdale could be the industry leader in everything.

Have the scales of justice tipped too far? Can they be righted? Or does the game go to the strong, and the unwitting are victims of their own gullibility?

If we are truly interested in being better humans, better at our jobs, we need people who are willing to be our truth tellers.

The people who report to you are a little bit intimidated by you, even a little afraid. You can make it a lot better by doing this …

I came away from Senior Living 100 feeling very optimistic about senior living and the role it plays in making the world a better place to live

Leading well is really hard. Asking questions is one of the most important and difficult aspects of leading.

Are you so busy talking and selling the smaller vision that you fail to listen or heed the conversation about the larger opportunity?