Resistance to Change: Coaching Can Help

HOUSTON, Texas – Here are a couple of questions for Chief Executive Officers: Do you know who the change resistant executives are in your senior leadership team? Chances are there is at least one. Do your senior leaders know, in the ranks of managers that report to...

Tis The Season For Reflection

With the holiday season comes all manner of good feelings — for valued colleagues, customers, and stakeholders. We send greetings and best wishes for joy and happiness.   Many will take time away from their families later today and on Christmas Day to minister...

Execution Trumps People 

You are on the spot. You are one of the top candidates to be Chief Executive Officer of a highly regarded, financially stable community hospital. So far, you feel the interview with the recruiter is going well. Then, without warning, he shifts gears and asks one of...

Five Healthcare Trends: Huron CEO Forum

The Huron CEO forum frequently produces interesting insights regarding the year ahead and this year is no different with the possible exception that the CEOs seem to be zeroing in on the issues that will count the most. Gordon Mountford, executive vice president of...

INTERVIEWS: Don’t Wing It

This may surprise some in healthcare, but dozens upon dozens of health system and hospital CEOs and other senior executives have admitted to me in my more than 20+ years in executive search that they are not that good at conducting interviews. I have heard a version...