Author Archives: Spyros Potiris

Aesop’s Fables

Whenever I travel back to my home country of Greece, I get to reconnect with artifacts and memories of my childhood. Last month, while I was visiting my parents for a few days, I came across a book in my … Continue reading

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Making the most of a meeting

Throughout my career at Dana-Farber, I have participated in many initiatives that aim to bring about change and implement improvements within the organization. These projects are usually meeting intensive, as they require extensive planning, thorough coordination, and informed decision making … Continue reading

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Best practices for designing business dashboards

For the past few months, a small team within Information Services (IS) that I am a member of has been working on developing a business dashboard for the department. The dashboard will provide its users, in this case IS leadership … Continue reading

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Hope through Innovation

For the past few months, news related to the coronavirus pandemic has flooded my social media accounts, become the focal point of my favorite podcasts, and taken over popular TV shows that I enjoy watching. It has been hard to … Continue reading

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A different kind of CV

Conversations with friends, colleagues, and classmates often revolve around missteps in our personal and professional lives. Most of us recognize that failing is part of life and, to a degree, we understand that it helps us grow. We read about … Continue reading

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Embracing the uncomfortable

Coming out of my Negotiations class on a rainy April afternoon, I was feeling quite disappointed. We had just completed an exercise on a multi-party negotiation for the development of a fictional new port on the East Coast, and I … Continue reading

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