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Capital Projects in Health Care: Getting Started
Launching a major capital project is a challenging and rewarding undertaking, especially in health care, where your new facility will transform and save lives. Whether a new hospital, clinic or urgent care, it is critical that you have a strategic plan in place as you...
Are you the author of your life?
What would your honest answer be to this question: Are you the author of your life? I think we think are. Color me skeptical. I wasn't for 60+ years. I find most people aren't, truly. Cultural expectations hold the pen for most of us. Then we hit mid-life and wonder...
Planning for New Year’s Success…and SUCCESSION!
It’s January 2020. Do you know what that means? It means succession planning. If you do nothing else this month, start your succession planning. Succession planning is one of the most important parts of leadership development. Why? Because you are going to lose people...
Focus on Value The impact of price transparency and quality on patients’ care decisions
The federal government has introduced price transparency policies in hopes that consumers will be able to compare services and receive quality care that won’t break the bank. But not enough has been done to equip consumers to determine the overall value of the care...
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[Video] 2020 Resolution Strategies: How to improve personally and as a leader
EW Tibbs offers up personal strategies he uses to guide himself as a human being and also as a leader. He explores how using memories and relationships translate directly to: Improved work ethic; Commitment to learn; Having a deep compassion for others; and a...
Aristotle and Your “Curve of Happiness”
Someone once told me you can't go wrong invoking big names to bolster your content. So I'm invoking an old stand-by for this week's article: Aristotle. Aristotle - and the Greeks, in general - did a lot of what we don't seem to do much of - thinking about their...
2019 Franchise Buyers Review
Earlier this year, I wrote about the growing diversity in today’s franchise buyers. It’s fascinating and wonderful to work with such varied stages of life, needs, goals and interests all finding their “right fit” in franchising. There’s Millennials to later career...
WARNING! Retirement May Mess With Your Oligodencrocytes!
Oligo what? Hey, I didn’t know we had them, did you? Yet another something in the “cytes” category roaming around our bodies. I found out I had oligodencrocytes as I was slogging through my second reading of a challenging book entitled “Deep Work; Rules for Focused...
Decoding Executive Presence
Have you sat by the sidelines and observed someone walk into the room and their presence just fills the atmosphere? Have you been at a meeting where once someone starts speaking everyone in the room is drawn towards them in silence? Have you watched someone on video...
A Life Lesson Learned from a Thomasville Chair
2019 contained a lost summer for my wife and me. We decided to move from home-ownership to the rental world temporarily, in defiance of all conventional advice regarding balance sheet/net worth/equity/tax benefits, yada, yada, yada. For a couple of months, we battled...
Holiday time off – does your culture allow equitable distribution?
How are you taking care of your employees during the holidays? The holidays are considered a time of year when families gather the most. Consider this: are your newer employees able to enjoy this time with family? Is the time off policy equitable in your organization...
Charges are irrelevant to the patient’s bottom line
With increased calls for healthcare pricing transparency from consumers and government entities alike, hospitals’ chargemasters are moving from proprietary information to public knowledge. However, putting chargemasters under the microscope has not led to the clarity...
The White Coat Might Just Be The Cape That Hospital Leadership Is Looking For
I am often asked today if I am a doctor or an administrator, my response is both, always! You might ask, can a physician really be both? The answer is yes, BUT not every physician. If you take the group of all physicians, the first cut is those that are interested,...
Are You On a Two-tank Journey With a One-tank Mindset?
Stan is a C-level executive in his late fifties. He’s done well, thriving and progressing in the volatile, high-pressure world of healthcare. Also, like many at his level in this chaotically-evolving industry, his career was recently disrupted when he was laid off,...
The healthcare industry has much to be thankful for
"It’s not so much what we have in this life that matters. It’s what we do with what we have." -Fred Rogers In my years serving as CEO of healthcare systems, I always took special care around this time of year to express my thankfulness to our employees for their hard...