What if your incentives are driving your employees to do things that are clearly detrimental to your business?
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Why the Lack of Power Corrupts Absolutely: Dealing With Petty Bureaucrats – Podcast
Listen to Mark as he discusses that a few months ago, while waiting at the gate for a flight, I couldn’t help but notice a gate agent making some woman unpack and repack and unpack and repack her expandable carry-on suitcase because it was too wide to fit into the measuring “box” for carry-on luggage..
Do You Know Your “One Weird Trick to Losing Belly Fat?” – Podcast
What are you doing to get attention for your practice or business?
Why You Must Control the Context to Influence the Outcome
It’s morning in a mall outside of a metro station in Washington, D.C. Josh, dressed in jeans, T-shirt and baseball hat, picks up his violin and begins to play. Classical music, some of the most complex and beautiful ever written for the instrument, floods the air. Over the next three quarters of an hour, over…
Why You Have to Build a Bigger Future
Life’s good and “efficient,” a common meme in healthcare. But, like a sponge, when conditions change, they can neither change with the times nor change location, at least not until it’s too late.
Do You Know Your “One Weird Trick to Losing Belly Fat?”
There is one weird trick and it can be yours and it has nothing to do with belly fat but everything to do with increasing your practice’s or business’s success. Clickbait. Although the term is often used as a pejorative, it describes an impactful statement that’s designed to grab your attention, pulling you in to…
The 4 “P’s” of Medical Group Success – Podcast
Marcus Lemonis of the TV show, The Profit, says that there are three “P’s” to business success.
About Brand Extension – Podcast
Extending a brand means to branch it out from one product or service line to another. Like Barbie dolls to Barbie bikes. Or, like Community Hospital to Community Hospital Medical Group.
Why the Hospital’s Idea of Physician Leader Means Follower
What those hospitals are really doing is training more physicians to become hospital-employed or hospital-controlled managers in order to monitor, cajole and threaten the members of the medical staff to follow mandated cost cutting measures.
Don’t Incentivize for What You Shouldn’t Get
What are you incentivizing your employees or independent contractors to do? And what if those incentives are driving them to not do other things that are far more essential for your business? Or, even worse, what if those incentives are driving them to do things that are clearly detrimental to your business?