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Daniel Sinnott, CEO of his eponymous executive search firm, wrote a thoroughly excellent piece on how healthcare CEO searches should adapt to find more appropriate candidates. Leadership is a struggle in these difficult industry times for healthcare, and the head of an organization influences much of the hard-to-change but needs-to-change aspects of the care giving business. […]
June 10, 2014
There’s an old saw in business to the effect that you can’t trust the customer to know what they want. In other words, a customer cannot envision a solution that does not yet exist. Therefore, it is a professional’s job to invent that solution, rather than wait for the client to describe it, and then try to […]
February 12, 2014
“I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.” Walter Sobchak to The Dude in The Big Lebowski I think busy professionals, especially experienced ones, feel like new business ideas are trendy (look at the business best seller list), and if you somehow fall for the […]
February 3, 2014
The final 2013 issue of Medical Construction + Design offered some “predictions” by healthcare leaders on “thoughts on the facility of tomorrow”. Although these are more wish list items than true predictions, there are some truisms and good ideas buried in here: Better air flow to prevent spreading infectious diseases It is surprising how few […]
January 31, 2014
2014 will be remembered throughout most of the U.S. as an especially harsh winter, and we are barely halfway through. Earlier this week, I read or heard first person accounts, particularly in the South where traditional winter weather is a rare occurrence, of 20 minute commutes taking six hours, kids spending the night at their […]
June 20, 2014
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