Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2020

Who is going to take care of the very difficult job of marshaling enough respirators, masks, and personal protective equipment to keep health care providers safe and patients as medically secure as possible? Who is going to try to ensure there are enough testing kits available? The world needs more Dr. Charleses.

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leaderCommunicator

AUGUST 8, 2014

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. Each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays I pull some of the best together here on my blog. In fact, some may give their leadership skills even less. In fact, some may give their leadership skills even less.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

What followed next was a quick real-time distillation of long-held thoughts and observations on the nature of true leadership. As we look back on a year when we’ve seen the impact of both stellar and dismal leadership take center stage this feels like a good time to step back and set our bearings for 2021.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

He has expanded his research and applied his theories to other industries like health care, higher education and even governments and tax systems. I found two recent articles about Clayton Christensen that have increased my understanding about leadership: The first is published in the BYU Magazine’s Spring 2013 edition. (As

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Sidney kushner & vala afshar I’ve been giving my “How to Network” talk lately which refers to this story, so I’m reposting it from my Harvard Business Review article - it is timeless. Vala is now at Salesforce, Twitter is X, and Sidney is still changing lives - the power remains. It is a gift that grows simply by sharing it.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Just fyi, here is an an article I wrote entitled “ Creating a Life-Giving ‘Connection Culture’ in Health Care Organizations.” ” The article recently appeared in Becker’s Hospital Review. ).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In health care today, the conversation around transparency centers on the consumer. Health care providers must respond with as much information as possible to ensure appropriate care is delivered, quality and safety are top of mind, and patients and their care team can make thoughtful care decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2023

A survey of more than 400,000 employees, from physicians and nurses to security and maintenance workers, finds that organizational culture is key.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These numbers point to a clear need for better representation of female physicians in leadership. Before they can make progress, healthcare organizations need to see how well (or poorly) women are represented among their leadership. The Future of Health Care. Quantification. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

This is especially true in health care. As health care organizations are being pressured to cut costs, reduce medical errors, and adopt both standardized processes and new innovations, providers are being asked to give up established and comfortable ways of working. The Future of Health Care. Insight Center.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 12, 2010

I’ve previously written that connection is critical to health care and cited the examples of Dr. Herb Pardes at New York-Presbyterian and my own observations during my wife Katie’s battles with breast and advanced ovarian cancer. It’s about Dr. .&# Katie is cancer free today. why is everyone smiling?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The measures and data to perform this type of analysis are now becoming available for burnout, a problem that is growing in all sectors, but is particularly challenging in health care. This underscores how important it is for this group to feel tied to the mission of care, for their own well being. The Future of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In a recent article , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini detail the toll that growing bureaucracy is taking across industries. Many of those working in the consolidating health care industry will immediately validate several of the authors’ key findings, including: Bureaucracy is growing, not shrinking. ” I beg to differ.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. The Future of Health Care. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Caring for the health and well-being of our fellow humans has always been viewed as a combination of art and science. With all the recent advances in technology, there is no doubt the health care industry as a whole gets an “A” in science. Some dysfunction may always exist in our health care systems.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. The financial health of the organization was the most important metric for management and governance to follow.

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

hospitals and health care groups have experimented over the past decade with new management structures and alternative payment models to provide quality health care at lower cost. It may sound odd to suggest that the industry overlooked physicians as it set about reshaping the health care system.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Some health care leaders view with trepidation the new, disruptive health care alliance formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase. If this trio can disrupt the United States’ health care system into consistently delivering high-value care, we will all owe them our gratitude.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

At Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare , ensuring the alignment of all these things to provide extraordinary care requires a constant regimented focus across our 23 hospitals, 170 clinics, and 850,000-member health insurance plan. In reviewing trends, we have refined further the most vital metrics for executive leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The challenge that we face — making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people — is not unique to health care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

As we wrote in a recent New England Journal of Medicine article, “Imagine a medical-school dean addressing the incoming class with this demoralizing prediction: ‘Look at the woman to your left and then at the woman to your right. The Future of Health Care. Leadership. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In the United States and throughout the world, health care is undergoing a transformation. The clear solution is to increase the value of care: improving patient outcomes while containing, if not reducing, costs. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth and sign up to receive updates here.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

It is a joint project between the Royal College of Art and Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London where designers and engineers can work in close contact with clinicians to identify challenges and provide solutions. Health Care’s New Frontier. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum. Acknowledgements.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. We know this because in India innovators have found ways to deliver high-quality care to everyone — rich, poor, and virtually penniless — and make money doing it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

health care system spends almost a third of its resources — $750 billion annually — on unnecessary services and inefficient care. These tools are now being used across the continuum of care, from disease surveillance to chronic disease prevention to identifying patients who are at risk of deterioration.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine reported that American health care was decidedly dangerous for patients. The cause was not malfeasant individuals; it was inadequately designed and operated systems of care delivery. For most this is a profoundly different approach, which requires a new style of leadership.

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Health Care Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Politics 74

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2015

For all the hard work to improve coordination and collaboration in health care, most hospitals are still organized into silos based on clinical specialties — and communication among them is uneven at best. Few industries present more teaming opportunities — or have a greater need for it — than health care.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2017

health care system is begging for disruption. Hundreds of millions of Germans, French, English, Scandinavians, Dutch, Danish, Swiss, Canadians, New Zealanders, and Australians get comparable or better health services for half of what we pay. Seamless teamwork is critical to effective care of complex, high-cost patients.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Additionally, companies with high turnover of skilled employees, such as health care workers and hi-tech positions, may have to wait some time to fill that vacant spot. The highest turnover rates were in construction and hospitality. The lowest turnover rates were in government, manufacturing and education.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. Prove to Others That You’re Proving It to Yourself by Steve Farber (posted 11/22/10) Extreme Leadership is not a solo act; it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. More on that in an upcoming post).

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 19, 2013

Now companies from software and health-care providers to manufacturers are radically remaking that model, shifting from expensive field staffs to more cost-efficient employees who use phones and computers to reach customers. John Agno: Can't Get Enough Leadership. . . Related articles. John Agno: Ask the Coach.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents. The ramifications for traditional care providers typically dominated by hospitals is going to be big and may happen fast. Carol Yepes/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Calls for teamwork in health care are as persistent as they are hard to heed. For years, the basic model for managing coordination in health care delivery has relied on what organizational scholars called role-based coordination. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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