Strategic advantage is gained by being able to process information and take action faster than one's opponent
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Category: The Business of Healthcare
Discussing the business side of all things healthcare.
Strategic advantage is gained by being able to process information and take action faster than one's opponent.
Let’s say you are the leader of a medical group. It could be a small group of a handful of physicians. Or, you could be the President and CEO of a 600 or 6,000 provider group. It does not make any difference.
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Catalog all of your agreements. Consider each new deal or arrangement in light of your existing ones as a matter of standard operating procedure.
A diamond and a rock, sitting side by side. Both discovered near the bottom of the Udachny diamond mine in the Sakha Republic region of Russia, one of the world’s ten deepest open-pit diamond mines.
Super Bowl commercials garner all sorts of buzz for being “creative,” but creativity isn’t selling.
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In reality, the "CEO" never really owned his business. He was simply its caretaker. He just realized it a bit too late.
today, employers reward for the value you create. The factory worker, whether in what is readily recognized as a factory or one which looks, to outsiders, like a medical clinic or hospital, who simply shows up on time, does what he or she is told (you know, follows protocols) and then clocks out at the end of the shift, creates no real value in comparison with the next worker.
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Don’t do what your competitors are doing just because they’re doing it or because you might get some award for it.
Today, there’s no longer even the “promise” of lifetime employment. “Retirement” as in replacement, replacement just like an old machine, is as far off as the next layoff or the next outsourcing.
