Ride along with Mark as he discusses a key concept from his book, The Medical Group Governance Matrix: The freedom that medical group leaders must have to decide, and to decide fast.
Tag: decision making
Don’t Do the Crime if You Can’t Do the Time as Hospital CEO
Over the years, I have dealt with many hospital CEOs that I thought were criminals. In fact, I have dealt with some who were indicted, and, in at least one case, a CEO who later became a long-term “guest” in the Gray Bar Hotel. But it still amazed me to read last week in a…
The Cancer of Consensus – Podcast
Leaders must lead. They cannot bog themselves down in the morass of consensus building.
How Not Letting Go Leads to Medical Group Management Messes
A few weeks ago on the blog, I wrote about The Medical Group Governance Matrix™. I have a good friend who says, in the context of a physical skill, that prehistoric humans initially developed the strong, instinctual dominant-hand grip to be able to grab onto tree limbs and quickly climb in order to escape predators…
The Medical Group Governance Matrix
We all hear, and most of us say, that the pace of change in healthcare is quickening. That means that the pace of required decision-making is increasing, too. Unless, that is, you want to take the “default” route. That’s the one is which you let someone else make the decisions that impact you; you’re just…
Mermaids and Medical Groups – Medical Group Minute
Are you basing business decisions on the world as you believe it to exist?
The Fast and the Dead – Podcast
Let’s listen in to a series of calls from a potential deal partner to the office of the Smith and Jones Medical Group.
Medical Group Management – Podcast
Properly done, medical group management is neither a collaborative nor a unanimous process. It is a leadership decision.
Bastiat, a Teenage Magician, and Medical Group Decision Making
A magic show is about misdirection: that which is seen and that which isn’t seen. Just like the title of the essay by Frédéric Bastiat, the early 19th Century French political economist, but in a slightly different direction. Bastiat’s point was that governments legislate to correct a problem (and then bask in the glory of…
Bastiat, Philosophy and Medical Group Decision Making – Success in Motion
Ride along as Mark Weiss and his special guest, Frederic Bastiat (well, just his philosophy), and learn about how to incorporate Bastiat’s principles of “that which is seen and that which is not seen” into medical group decision making.