Rent a sports car for the employee to use for a week. Give award merits that can be cashed in for gifts at the end of each quarter. Treat the employee to a professional house cleaning. Don't mention the rare transgression and occasional mistake of an otherwise outstanding employee who already recognizes it. Remember to celebrate the birthdays, anniversaries, and other occasions of all employees-not just those of outstanding individuals.
Flowers provide a big bang for the buck.
Please share them with our colleagues. If you always gross cases in ascending numerical order, and your histotechnologists always embed the blocks and cut them in descending numerical order, your answer may be determined by whether the foreign tissue came from a case that was before or after the one in question. Laboratory 'halforisms' I promised in the last column to share the eternal truths I've learned in almost 40 years in pathology. When choosing between two evils, most persons will choose the one she or he hasn't tried yet. No matter what result is anticipated, there will always be someone to fake it.