As healthcare entities become larger they appear as formidable competitors in the marketplace.
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Physician Success Requires More Than Focus on Patient Care – Medical Group Minute
Don’t focus too intently on patient care and forget the rest.
Dogs and the Power of Observation – Medical Group Minute
“From a dog’s point of view his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.” – Mabel L. Robinson
Et Tu, Dr. Brute? – Medical Group Minute
You protect your patients every day. You need to spend some time protecting the integrity of your group, as well.
Transparency Within Medical Groups
However, keep in mind that the most successful groups, the Strategic Groups™, are not run as clubs. They are not completely transparent.
How Medical Groups Get Mired Fighting the Last War
It’s no longer business as usual. It is business as unusual. And that requires a new way of thinking.
100% Air Conditioned
Competitive advantages are developed, excluding competitors from the equation. But as soon as one’s competitors catch up, what was once an advantage becomes simply the price of admission.
Unifying Your Group
As hard as it is for me to say, it’s been 40 years since I had my summer job at McDonald’s. Yet after all this time, I remember some of the standards-enforcing mechanisms the franchise used, from written instructions on how each of the food items was to be prepared, to cards bearing sayings such…
TSA Screeners and the Myth of Medical Group Institutionalization of Business Relationships
A congressional study compared the performance of San Francisco International (SFO) Airport’s privately contracted screeners with those of LAX’s TSA staffed screeners. SFO’s staff screened 65% more passengers per screener than the government employed TSA personnel at LAX. To make the comparison even more striking, another study revealed that TSA personnel at LAX missed three…
Not a Smart Call
As a recent Wall Street Journal article recounts, Japanese manufacturers, once the world’s leaders in electronic goods and especially in cell phone technology, lost big in the switch to smartphones. The author attributed their fall to the manufacturers’ inward focus: They concentrated their major technological advancement on televisions and, as to the cell phone, simply…