We’re at a very interesting tipping point in respect of healthcare technology. And, it’s not tipping in the hospitals’ direction.
What does your ideal future look like?
Years ago, one of my former partners had a case in which a stock broker built up a huge book of business, only to have his clients “reassigned” to a famous heavy-hitter at the firm that took over the brokerage.
Have you set yourself up by setting up your medical groups so that it doesn’t have cash reserves?
Questions are far more powerful than statements. We’re programmed to answer them.
I recently read an article about a woman bemoaning the fact that she had been “cheated,” as her investment in General Motors bonds was about to become worthless. The system had failed her, she cried.
Both Washington and Lincoln were exceptional. Thrust into lives that they wanted but didn’t want, from pasts of trial and error, and failure upon failure. Self-promoters whose careers didn’t follow a smooth arithmetic progression.
When everyone’s included in group governance, no one owns leadership.
Take a lesson from Anita Roddick. Her focus was on a bigger future with the aim of changing the status quo. Her office even had a sign that read “Welcome to the Department of the Future.”
On a January day in 1493 off the coast of the island of Dominica, Christopher Columbus reported seeing three “mermaids” — in reality manatees. Columbus commented that in real life, mermaids were “not half as beautiful as they are painted.”