https://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2016/07/15/5-ways-to-deal-with-jackholiness/
Give trusted allies permission to point out your jackholiness when they see it. (In the moment, not later.) When was the last time you heard something that really stung?
http://www.chcf.org/articles/2016/06/how-one-doctor-realized
http://www.chcf.org/projects/2009/chcf-health-care-leadership-program
Oh, the things they don’t teach you in medical school. . . .
Every practicing physician carries around a list of blunders, miscommunications, errors, and missed chances — a pile-up of regrets and lessons learned the hard way. These doctors carry on by doing the very thing that propelled them through med school and residency: toughing it out, pushing through the next obstacle to achieve their goal. It can sometimes feel like a Pyrrhic victory.
The road can get really rough in the middle of the journey. Frustrations mount, hopes darken — especially for physicians moving into leadership roles. The pressures from all sides can drain the satisfaction out of a career in medicine, leading to depression, lousy home life, self-defeating workaholism, and ultimately, professional burnout.
That’s what Geoffrey Leung, MD, was at risk of experiencing when he applied for the California Health Care Foundation’s leadership program two years ago. Now finishing up his second and final year in the fellowship, Leung wants other aspiring physician leaders in California to know there’s a path out of the swamp.
When close to 5,000 healthcare professionals get together to talk numbers, it’s worth paying attention. The Healthcare Finance Management Association Annual National Institute took place in Las Vegas this week. Given the seismic changes in motion relative to the business model of hospitals and healthcare delivery networks, this is likely (and perhaps surprisingly) one of the more important and interesting conferences that will take place in healthcare this year.
In the $3 trillion market which is healthcare, roughly $1 trillion flows directly through hospitals. But the story isn’t what you think it is, as average operating margins are only 2 percent and inpatient volumes have been declining at a rate of close to 2 percent annually for the last few years. With margins that small, volume declining, and this much at stake, clearly the game is going to change in a big way. The bottom line is there is a truly stunning shift in focus taking place in finance, and that was evident at the HMFA conference this year.
This is a landscape view of some of the hot topics, but I think the bottom line is there has never been a better time for new ideas and true collaboration relative to solving healthcare’s most fundamental puzzle — figuring out how to deliver the best and most cost effective care possible to everyone, every day, in every community.
There is a line in a song from the musical Hamilton that says “Look around, look around, how lucky we are to be alive right now.” I think that captures the mindset we need from every stakeholder at the table right now. This is a great time to be in healthcare, perhaps the best.
https://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2016/07/03/7-essential-beliefs-for-leadership-success/
#4. Treat everyone like a volunteer. Peter Drucker wisely said, “Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.” What happens to your attitude when you stop using pay checks as billy clubs?
Winning hearts is more powerful than coercing conformity.
Despite all the change health plans are facing today, there’s one key way of measuring leaders’ effectiveness that won’t change: Profitability.
Health plan executives will be evaluated based on the sustainability of their businesses during a time when profit margins are tight. They’ll also be measured based on their ability to retain employees and maintain current local relationships. Health plans will be investing in a lot of new talent. That means that leaders will be measured on their ability to grow their teams, while maintaining deep relationships in the communities where they’re doing business.
At its core, integrity is about honesty. If we purport to be taking an action to advance a noble cause yet really are mostly trying to increase our own wealth, then we may be guilty of low integrity?
HENRY KOTULA 