I wish I could remember where I read it. But I can’t. His comment still sticks in my craw. The so-called expert said something like, “In the new economy, physicians need to lower their income expectations.” Why? To enable hospitals to hire you for less and increase their profit? So that payors can refuse to […]
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Does your group have a contractual right to enforce standards of behavior?
Tom Peters popularized the style of business management in which the manager cruises the workplace observing and interacting. He referred to it as “management by wandering around.” The same observational style applied to instances within and, equally or even more so, outside of your specific practice specialty, or business, or industry, provides a tremendous amount […]
Lowering your goals just to tell yourself that you’ve hit them is a crime against your potential.
Does your group have a contractual right to enforce standards of behavior?
Lowering your goals just to tell yourself that you’ve hit them is a crime against your potential.
What happens when one of the members of your group who is assigned to work at different sites, acts out on his or her bias against working at a particular location, perhaps by showing up late, or by making untoward comments to the staff, or by engaging in some other type of disruptive behavior?
It goes without saying as to any hospital-based medical group that top notch clinical skills are required. But, they merely are the “price of admission;” they get you into the position of holding a hospital contract, not actually holding it, or, in far too many cases, keeping it. Obviously, I can’t comment on the actual […]
I don’t know about you, but when I eat at a sushi bar, I expect the sushi chef to take my order. After all, for me, that’s the expected, traditional experience. And, it’s what makes it fun. You order based on what looks fresh, on what the chef suggests, and depending on your appetite – […]