Leadership strategies

Engaging Physicians: Engaging Organizations -   Note: As healthcare reform becomes reality, success for hospitals will largely be driven by engaged physician leaders who partner with administrative leaders to drive the strategic...
Healthcare Leadership’s Most Pressing Agenda - This article provides a compelling outline of the new roles healthcare leaders must play. It involves using the existing stakeholders in new ways. Let us know your thoughts. http://www.hhnmag.com/hhnmag/HHNDaily/HHNDailyDisplay.dhtml?id=6210001028  
Managing Risk: Where are you on the curve - Based on the response to our first article, Becker’s Hospital and Health Review asked us to submit an article for healthcare leaders that helps them better manage the significant...
Healthcare reform: Leadership at the local level…a case study - The context The head of The family Medicine Department, University of Minnesota has a long history of developing physicians who have been influential in the field. He is committed to...
Accountable Care Organizations: Building the Capacity for Change - A discontinuous change often occurs with a new invention, an alliance with organizations with complementary skills, and, as is the case here, the stroke of a political pen. The new...
The CEO’s Greatest challenges: Managing Paradoxes for Sustained Competitive Advantage - Our interviews with CEOs indicate they feel confident in their ability to deal with problems, while paradoxes perplex them. Yet, research demonstrates that the ability to handle paradoxes...
The secret to improving healthcare: It’s obvious - Last week I was privileged to attend a special session of fifteen medical institutions that gathered for the purpose of formally understanding the nature of medical variability in healthcare...
Obama’s Magic: What Happened? - What propels a person to have the courage to move from relative obscurity to becoming President of the United States and hold what many believe the most powerful position on earth? Clearly...
Healthcare—what will happen and what we can do now. - I just returned from attending and presenting at the American Hospital Association Center for Healthcare Governance conference. The session was created for hospital CEO and Board members...
Our Most Urgent Leadership Question - Conservative, moderate, and aggressive estimates of the number of U.S. jobs that are potentially offshorable in the coming decades are roughly 22%, 26%, and 29%, respectively, according...