It happens time after time. You’re in the midst of negotiations for this deal or that.
You know that you should push for the points that are crucial. But then, you pull yourself back like a dog on a leash.
It happens time after time. You’re in the midst of negotiations for this deal or that.
You know that you should push for the points that are crucial. But then, you pull yourself back like a dog on a leash.
How many times and for how long do you think a Broadway actor prepares for his first performance, or even for subsequent performances? How many months are they in rehearsal? Actors and athletes, certainly professional athletes, use a similar practice-to-performance model. For example, in baseball, there’s spring training, but there’s also practice, practice, and more […]
Remember yearning for the affection, for even a glance, from that cheerleader or football star, the one that “everyone” adored?The attractiveness of a deal multiplies by the number of “buyers.”
Earlier this year, a federal trial court in Idaho struck down, and ordered unwound, a hospital’s acquisition of a medical group on grounds that it violated antitrust law. The case is now on appeal.
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.
Words lack context. You can frame a discussion, whether it’s going on inside your own head or with someone else.
What’s the first thing that you’re telling the people that you deal with? Not just patients but colleagues and potential deal partners?
It’s hard enough to watch what you say when you’re speaking, but at least you’ve got inflection on your side
The market’s changing rapidly – government intervention, national and regional groups, hospital employment models.
I fail all the time. You should, too. If you want to get ahead. Failure forces you to change your thinking.
 
Mark F. Weiss represents large physician groups, highly entrepreneurial physicians, and physicians and others in the development of surgery centers, imaging facilities and other healthcare ventures. The object is success.
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