Len Zwelling

Make or Buy? By Leonard Zwelling          This was a common question that we faced as business school students in our classes on strategic planning and entrepreneurship. When a company needs a certain skill or functionality, should that be created as a permanent part of the company or bought as piece work? It could be […]

First: How about a video from KTRK in Houston on which I appear commenting about our pending trip to Israel: http://abc13.com/news/us-pushes-for-truce-as-gaza-battle-rages/214187/ Second: I have heard from Dr. Marc Lippman of the Lippman Rules who denies having authored Rule #4 and claims it is I who made that one up. Of course, I remember it differently,

But What Can I Do? By Leonard Zwelling          Whether local or international, the news is grim.          Members of the MD Anderson community have been repeatedly greeted with more and more bad news mostly surrounding the behavior of its leadership and now with the hard to grasp fact that MD Anderson is no longer

Bored of Directors By Leonard Zwelling          No, that is not a typo and yes, I know how to use Spellcheck. I am trying to make a point. I believe the oversight of MD Anderson could use some freshening up.          In the corporate world and even among the non-profits, there is usually assembled a

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Focus By Leonard Zwelling          In this morning’s Houston Chronicle (July 17), Todd Ackerman reports that the American Association of University Professors will launch an investigation into the tenure dispute surrounding two Anderson faculty members that has roiled the waters at Anderson for months.          Let’s hope everyone can keep his or her focus on

WE’RE NUMBER 2 L By Leonard Zwelling          The rumors had actually been circulating for over a year. MD Anderson was going to be dethroned as the King of the Cancer Centers. Of course, MD Anderson was never the number one cancer center because such a designation does not exist. What MD Anderson could claim

Yasser Arafat and Sitting Bull: Palestinians and Indians, Israelis and White Americans By Leonard Zwelling          No one can fail to be disturbed by the latest developments in the Middle East. As if the crises in Iraq and in Syria were not sufficiently upsetting, the kidnapping and killing of both Israeli and Palestinian young people

Bandon Dunes (Dedicated to Dr. Stu Levine, my brother from another mother who shared the adventure with Genie and me and to Dr. Marty Raber who should have been there and hopefully will be next time) By Leonard Zwelling          It has been said that this is as close to Scottish golf as you can

Failure (This is a longer one than usual. Sorry. Too much to say for brevity) By Leonard Zwelling       Success is more fun than failure, but it is also more transient. When I accomplish a goal that I established for myself, I am certainly pleased, but only for a minute. I am on to the