James Pullman
I am a husband, father of three and a citizen. I am an entrepreneur and business leader who has ascended business and health care organizations to new levels of satisfaction, safety, quality, and financial performance. I have a history of overcoming obstacles and events both personal and professional.
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BS in Physical Therapy, Master of Health Administration, and Master s Certificates in Manual Therapy, Six Sigma, and Lean ThinkingInterests
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Leadership: What You Say May Be More Important Than What You ThinkThis narrative article discusses the importance of language, even when we are not paying attention.
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Leadership: Use Competition to Bring Out Your BestThis narrative article discusses the benefits of using competition to improve your service and product.
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Leadership: Talking About Branding with Brian Wilson at Crystal'sThis narrative article discusses the benefits of using a brand when marketing.
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Don't Get Petered by the Peter PrincipleThis article discusses the Peter Principle and how it may affect your promotional opportunities.
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Leadership: Sharing the Shared Experience of Change ManagementThis article discusses ways to transition your organization through change managment.
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Leadership: A Review of a Review, Three Things that May MatterThis article is a review of a review of Herman Cain's book.
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Has Affiliate Marketing Tainted My Leadership Side?This article discusses the deterioration of my leadership blog site as I try to earn a dollar on affiliate marketing.
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Private Equity: Things to Remember when Selling Your BusinessThis article describes things to keep in mind if you are trying to sell your business.
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Leadership: Customer Satisfaction and Wait TimesThis article reviews the association between wait times and customer satisfaction.
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Leadership: A First Meeting with a Customer is Basically a Job InterviewThis narrative article describes the importance of thinking of first customer meetings as job interviews.
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My Second Best Run EverThis article is a narrative that describes my second best run ever.
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Leadership: Why Project Teams FailThis narrative article discusses the reasons that project teams fail in business.
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Leadership: Meetings About Nothing Aren't ReallyThis article is a narrative that discusses the benefits of having casual conversation with your staff and team members.
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Private Equity Industry Segment TestsThis article is a narrative that discusses how to identify and test industries as a private equity.
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Researched: A Leadership AssessmentThis is a researched article that assesses leadership styles and roles.
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Why I Love My Fitness ClassThis article is a narrative that discusses why I love my fitness class.
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Leadership: When is it Too Soon to Put Out a Product?This is article is a narrative that discusses the importance of timing a product release.
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Private Equity: Tests of Value CreationThis article is a narrative that discusses ways to improve the value of a potential take over target.
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Leadership: How to Get Your Team, or You, Back on TrackThis narrative article discusses how to right your path once you have strayed.
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My Wake Up CallThis narrative article discusses what made me start to live healthy again.
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Leadership: The How's and Why's of Keeping Things CleanThis narrative article discusses the virtues of cleanliness and organization in business.
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My Marathon StoryThis narrative article discusses what motivated me to run a marathon.
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Leadership: Creating a Code of Conduct Will Help Focus Your TeamThis narrative article discusses the benefits of starting your business team off with a code of conduct
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Selling Yourself to a Private Equity FirmThis narrative article discusses how to sell yourself to a private equity firm.
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Leadership: Forgiving Yourself and Getting on with it is All a Part of ItThis narrative article discusses the necessity of forgiving yourself and moving on as a part of your career decisions.
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Health Care Supply IssuesThis researched article discusses the issues of supply and demand issues as it relates to health care.
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Private Equity: How to Improve the Value of an Acquired CompanyThis narrative article looks at ways to improve operations at acquired businesses as a private equity buyer.
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A Call to Action, Where Are All the Entrepreneurs?This narrative opinion piece encourages one to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities.
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Career Advice: To Be or Not to Be Promoted, that is Only One QuestionThis narrative article looks at the pluses and minuses of accepting a promotional course to your career.
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A Fun New Mobile Texting Application for Fun and ProfitArticle further reviews the benefits of a computer to mobile texting device application, Textingly.
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Are You the Right Person to Lead a Business in a Private Equity Take-Over?This article is a narrative that looks at how to determine whether or not you are the right person to lead a business that is the target of takeover.
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Leadership: Using Loss and Failure as Springboards to OpportunityLeadership, health care, oppoportunity
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Leadership: How to Select Your TeamThis narrative article describes the process of selecting a team.
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Affiliate Marketing: What I Have Learned that May Help the NewbieThis article describes some of the things you can do to be a successful, or in most cases, an unsuccessful affiliate marketer.
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How I Got Hollywood LeanThis article touts the benefits of a lean look and subscribes to the diet and exercise program to get there.
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What Type of Person Owns an Online Sports Gear Store?This article tries to make owning an online sports gear and apparel store seem glamorous. It fails miserably.
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Leadership: The Value of Mission, Vision, and ValuesThis article discusses the virtues of mission, vision, and values in developing a team as a leader.
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Private Equity NegotiationThis article is a narrative that covers some of the basics of cold calling as a venture capitalist.
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Remember the Titans is a Good Movie for Leadership ExamplesThis article describes the examples that the movie, Remember the Titans, has for leadership.
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So You're a Private Equity Advisor, Now What?This article is a narrative describing the process of developing yourself into a private equity advisor.
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Leadership of Team Building: The Phases of Evolution of a TeamThis narrative article describes the phases of evolution of team building.
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Leadership: How a Janitor Saved My LifeThis narrative article helps a leader put what is important into perspective. This article illustrates value in everybody.
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Writing as a Business: Is Quantity More Important Than QuantityThis narrative article looks at a competiton with my Dad on what is important when writing as a business.
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Want to Be a Venture Capitalist? What Business Segments Should You Look At?This narrative article takes a look at how to identify business segments to buy as a venture capitalist
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Venture Capital: Ways to Fund an Entrepreneurial OpportunityThis researched article looks at some ways to fund a startup opportunity.
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Leadership Development Skills: A Case StudyThis article is a narrative that looks at how to develop as a leader using Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony as an example.
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Leadership: What I Would Do If I Were CEO of the Business of Tiger WoodsThis narrative article looks at how to manage your business through a crisis. In this case, the business is Tiger Woods.
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Health Care EconomicsThis researched article looks at the economics of health care in America.
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Leadership: How to Determine Which Employees to Spend Your Time and Energy OnThis article is a narrative that illustrates how to spend your time and energy as a manager to get maximal improvement.
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Leadership: The Seven Deadly Sins of ManagementThis article is a narrative story discussing Deming's seven sins of management.
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Leadership: Showing Weakness and Vulnerability Can Help You Gain InfluenceThis article is a narrative story that displays how weakness can be used as a strength.
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Leadership Case Study of the Steward as a Leader in Health CareThis is a researched article looking at the steward as a leader in health care.
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Leadership: Guiding the Head, Heart, and HandsThis is a narrative story on how to lead your entire staff.
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The Components of a Good TeamThis is a narrative story that describes the parts of a good team.
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A Health Care Campaign to Address Obesity in a Mississippi CommunityThis is a researched article that looks at a way to decrease obesity in Mississippi
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Leadership: How to Have a Motivated StaffThis article is a narrative that explains the two ways to have a motivated staff.
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Team Building: The Six Parts of a Good CharterThis article identifies and describes the components to a good team charter
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Some Thoughts on Health Care TrendsThis researched article looks at the direction of health care and where we could be headed.
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How to Structure Your Next Business VentureThis researched article looks at ways of setting up and establishing a new business venture.
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The Hows and Whys of Strategic ManagementStrategic Management is a defined and organized means of directing your business. This researched article gives you the ABCs.
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Leadership: Start with IntegrityThis is a narrative story that touts the benefits of leading with integrity.
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Affiliate Marketing: Passive Income Marketing Machine, Are You for RealEveryone seems to be making money online these days. This story is about another person who has hit it big.
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Leading with Integrity is RightLeadership is essential for successful operation and performance of any organization. This article illustrates this via narrative form.
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Leadership: Don't Compromise Your Integrity for Anyone, Even If the Person is Jennifer AnnistonIntegrity should not be compromised for anyone. See how Jennifer tests me in this fantastical account.
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Imagine How Good to Kill a Mocking Bird Would Have Been with PicturesI have a fictional discussion with Harper Lee and inform her how she could have improved upon her classic.
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My Best Run EverIf you are a veteran runner, you can recall any number of runs you had for a variety of reasons. Read below if you want a funny running story about my best run ever.
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Ain't Room Enough Out Here for the Two of UsThe West is Wild. This short fiction illustrates another reason why.
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My Memories of ChristmasI have one repeated memory of Christmas. It is a conversation between me and my sister. It always ends the same way...
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Step-by-Step Process to EntrepreneurismThis article is a researched look at how to be an entrepreneur.
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The Art of a DealHow I Became a Private Equity Advisor
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Christmas Time ColorsAn attempt at a Suessian poem goes South. I guess Christmas is not all happiness.
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Winter MemoriesA haiku written of winter.
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A 30 Day Challenge 31 Days LaterA writing contest intrigues my father and me. Ultimately, I challenge him to a writing competition. The fun doesn't begin until the contest is over...
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Appreciated MediocrityA Villanelle exploring the issue of mediocrity.
