5 Ways to Prepare for Healthcare Transformation

This article should serve as a clarion call for healthcare CEOs.        Medicare Cuts will Cost Nearly 500,000 Healthcare Jobs  09/25/2012 | by Hilary Lau | D Healthcare Magazine Mandatory spending cuts to Medicare in 2013 will result in large-scale job losses in...

Moment of Truth

“Check your ego at the front door,” is a phrase popular with some executive coaches and self-help gurus.  The underlying theme, at least in business, for this frequently used platitude is that leadership is not about the leader, but the success of the organization and...

Trust and Hope

A hopeful, confident, competent workforce that trusts its leaders has to be what every smart CEO in the United States covets. The key words here are hope and trust.  Hope and trust will produce a level of confidence that is an amazing and powerful force in the...

Empower or Implode

Employees are a treasure trove of energy, idealism, and devotion.  In healthcare, they are critical to our success.  They can make or break a healthcare provider.  Pure and simple. Yet, as Fierce Healthcare blogger Thomas Dahlberg wrote last Wednesday, far too many...

Look To Your Employees, Not At Them

The history of corporate portrait photography and the evolution of leadership makes for an interesting comparison. In the 19th and 20th centuries, corporate portraits, like the leadership styles of the subjects, were of stern-face corporate barons.  These titans of...