Len Zwelling

The Common Message of Duke Medical School and the Lubavitcher Rebbe: Don’t Be Common By Leonard Zwelling       I am being challenged yet again.       Throughout my tenure as a vice president at MD Anderson, I was confronted with hostility. This is the nature of administration and being a leader within it. The faculty hated […]

Can You Plan Your Way to a Cancer Cure? By Leonard Zwelling        For 20 years or more, since my graduation from business school, I have been involved in strategic planning. While there are many books written about planning, to me defining it is rather simple though doing it is not. Strategic planning is a

If Curt Flood Had Been a Doctor By Leonard Zwelling        Curt Flood is not a name known to many who are not serious baseball fans or less serious ones of a certain age (mine). Flood was a native Houstonian who was a stand-out center fielder mostly for the St. Louis Cardinals. He was a

Now I Am Really Confused: TV Ads for the Blind By Leonard Zwelling      For a while now, I have found it curious that the major pharmaceutical companies advertise their prescription drug products on television. It is not curious because television networks choose to broadcast the ads.  The leaders of TV have been well-compensated for

If Jill Had Been Jack, Would It Be On the Front Page? By Leonard Zwelling        On May 14 Jill Abramson was fired as the Executive Editor of the NY Times. She was the first woman to hold this position.        Editors come and go and in the coverage by the newspaper itself of the

The Association for the Seriously Stupid’s Annual Awards: The ASS Awards for Leading From Behind By Leonard Zwelling      Roll out the red carpet. It is once again time for the annual awards for Leading from Behind given by the Association for the Seriously Stupid. The so-called ASS awards for rear guard leadership have been

Who Needs Nazis? By Leonard Zwelling          As an American Jew, I have slowly come to appreciate that many of my fellow Jews don’t agree with me. Given that having two Jews in a room usually indicates the presence of at least three opinions, this may sound like a strange admission on my part. But,

With Cancer: The Kids Aren’t All Right, But They Are Better Off Than the Adults By Leonard Zwelling          In the previous blog post, I speculated that the latest fad in cancer research, ‘omic’ analysis of human tumors, is built on a concept something like intelligent design. I believe that because the basic hypothesis genomics

Cancer By Intelligent Design? By Leonard Zwelling        I was at a fund-raising dinner recently for a particular type of cancer. It doesn’t really matter which kind because these dinners are all the same. Only the color of the ribbons change. Survivors are lauded. Those who have died are remembered in various ways, mostly with

Scorpions Crossing Holcombe By Leonard Zwelling        The news is full of Donald Sterling. Mr. Sterling, the owner of the NBA’s LA Clippers, was caught on a recording device by his mistress making racial slurs. This has sent the entire blogosphere and all cable news outlets into a feeding frenzy of competitive opportunities to see