I was recently “un-greeted” by a cashier at Home Depot. It was around 6:45 p.m. on a Sunday and this guy’s frown was a monotone rainbow of unhappiness. I once had surgery and the anesthesiologist was yelling at his divorce lawyer in preop. These sorts of people can suck the profit right out of your […]
The same “law” that dictates motion contains a caveat: The object only says in that motion until it is acted upon by an unbalanced force.
Medical group leaders must use the resources of its medical group’s members to advance the group’s strategy through everyday interactions with referral sources, hospital employees and patients.
What good is an exclusive contract if the facility demands that it become non-exclusive?
The market’s changing rapidly – government intervention, national and regional groups, hospital employment models.
I’ve been thinking today about Pareto-type distribution, you know the “80/20 rule,” and physician employment. By physician employment, I’m addressing that situation in which there is no opportunity for meaningful ownership by the affected physician. So, for example, becoming an employee in a physician owned group in which there is a track to equal ownership […]
Steve Jobs famously believed public demand wasn’t important in terms of identifying the market for new products. Instead, what Jobs envisioned the public would want wasn’t even on the public’s radar. On the other hand, the famous marketing expert Gary Halbert held, using a restaurant as an example, that the most important element in the […]
You can’t take part in planning your own surprise party. But you actually play a big part in the other type of surprise.
I see zombies every day. More physicians don’t question the promises of employment.
Want a great stock tip? No, I’m not offering one. Instead, this is a question that I hear from time to time from physician group leaders.