I had an opportunity to sit down for an extended interview with North Okaloosa Medical Center CEO David Sanders last week.

You can read the full interview in our “Crestview MD” medical directory special section in the July 25 edition of the Crestview News Bulletin.

To me, Sanders’ most noteworthy comments from the interview were these:

“a lot of the things we may have had opportunities in, we fixed those”

and

“So we have fixed a lot of our opportunities, and then we have done an effective job of communicating that. ”

At first glance, those comments probably make no sense.

However, substitute the word “problems” where Sanders says opportunities and see how it sounds.

Makes a lot more sense, doesn’t it?

I can tell you from the context of the conversation, Sanders was using the word “opportunities” to describe what most of us would call “problems.”

I hear a lot of people talk about turning problems into opportunities.

Sanders might well be the first person I’ve ever met who has truly made that philosophy a part of his everyday vocabulary.

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