Six Degrees of Warren Brodine

Warren Brodine is a friend and former colleague. We worked together at RSM McGladrey and he is now a client as the CEO of a community health center here in Chicago where I am on business. Conveniently, Warren was celebrating his 40th birthday tonight so I was invited and able to attend the bash.

One of the jokes in the office was always that Warren knows everyone. It was easier to play "Six Degrees of Warren" than "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon."

This proved true tonight. At Warren's party:

• I met Alan and Grant who just last week saw my in-laws in a documentary on LOGO;
• I met Doug who is a health law attorney in Kansas City and who works with an organization that I was recently brought in to speak with about a potential business opportunity;
• I saw Kelly who I had met previously through Warren and who holds a senior position with HIMSS (an organization that I am associated with professionally) and who has been an invaluable help;
• I re-met Dan. Dan did an Executive MPH at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and was a student in a class at which I guest lectured in 2006.

Talk about a small world!