Fortune’s Path: the Blog
Our collection of ideas and tools for building great products and leading a life founded on love. Because the best way to get rich is to help others.
Overcoming The Challenges of Digital Health
I love meeting new people. Well, not always. I love meeting new people I find interesting, which is most people, but definitely not all people. Carm Huntress is the sort of person I love to meet, and he was a guest on the Fortune’s Path podcast this week. Carm is an entrepreneur, technology enthusiast, healthcare geek, audiophile, and father of young kids. He also understands the value of automating a manual process in healthcare, always one of my favorite business strategies.
Carm Huntress: Do We Really Have to Keep Faxing Medical Records?
CEO and start-up addict Carm Huntress talks about bringing healthcare out of the fax age and why strategy is misunderstood but so important. Carm talks about why he believes we'll all have digital access to our health records some day, but that it won't happen through direct to consumer approaches. You'll also hear Carm and Tom disagree about how to get the attention of healthcare executives.
How to Attract, Develop, and Keep Good People
Fortune’s Path Founder Tom Noser sat down with four other entrepreneurs for a conversation about hiring the right people and building a great company culture in the process.
Choosing Your Pack Mates
Whether you’re picking a mate, an adopted family, or a running buddy, deciding who you spend time with is the most important decision you can make. This applies as much to who you work with as it does who you live with.
The Perils of Headline Thinking
To discern the truth in a headline, think like Edward Tufte, founder of information design and hero to Fortune’s Path: look at the context.
Eric Carroll: Family first: building a career and a wonderful home life
Eric Carroll learned valuable lessons from his father’s career as an entrepreneur, and he’s applied them to his own work in non-traditional ways. Eric is a product leader with experience in education, consumer goods, and healthcare. Tom and Eric discuss deciding what kind of leader you want to be — Step 4 of the 12 Steps of Product Management. And Eric talks about managing your family as a product, complete with off-site meetings and goal-setting with your partner. Tom slips in a casual reference to reading Seneca.
Bill Horne: Discernment and listening in executive leadership
Bill Horne has always wanted to be a CEO but says it’s not a job for everybody. After a decade in sales for IBM, he began his journey as President/CEO or board member at eight different companies. Bill was recently the chief executive at Quovant, a legal spend management and data analytics business, and now heads 88 Keys, an executive coaching firm. Tom and Bill talk about improving the things you can control and accepting the things you can’t, step 2 of the 12 Steps of Product Management. And Bill explains how he brings customers into board meetings.
Competitive Intelligence: CipherHealth Does Its Market Homework
The function of competitive intelligence is to help organizations make critical decisions. But it’s often trapped in silos that keep it from being the reliable, actionable and timely resource it needs to be. Fortune’s Path breaks your CI out of silos so you can put it into action.
Quovant Finds its Revenue Mojo Again
Fortune’s Path brought its product marketing and product management skills to help Quovant achieve success at a pivotal moment in the company’s growth.
CloudCME Makes it Rain
CloudCME knew they had a great potential leader among their sales team, and Fortune’s Path created a successful leadership coaching program just for her. But FP didn’t stop there; it also provided CloudCME with two highly impactful sales enablement tools to propel sales momentum.