Leading As History Repeats

The role of a health system chief executive today will be markedly different within 10 years.   The oft-used phrase in healthcare, “We need to focus on our core business,” will take on a radical new meaning. Today the end game for healthcare leadership is the...

Your Exit Strategy

Entrepreneurs, and the investors who support them, will tell you that a key to success is to have an exit strategy.  It may be five, 10 or 20 years out but no one works or lives forever.  The exit plan is the strategy to capitalize on the hard work and success of the...

Tough Love: Change Or Get Out of the Way

If you haven’t heard, the job search market for executives is changing, and judging by the quality of the vast majority of resumes we receive, many candidates haven’t.   In healthcare, the perfect storm of structural, regulatory and reimbursement reforms are driving...

No Margin For Error

This is the first of a three-part blog theme with some ideas on how and why candidates must adapt to how market competition and the transformation of healthcare are rapidly changing the job market Seasoned healthcare executives entering the job market, either through...

Silent Trends: Healthcare Change Is On The Track

As we move inexorably to a series of regulatory and reimbursement changes irritated by congressional ineptitude, certain silent trends are emerging that will alter key aspects of the healthcare management infrastructure. These not-yet visible trends revolve around...