Be honest: Do you own your practice or does it own you? If your practice owns you, what you have is a job. You might as well go work for someone else. Less headache. Isn’t that the whole point of physician management companies and hospital employment? But if you want to become successful, and there…
Almost all physician groups are mired in mediocrity. Only 3 to 4 percent are in the category of top performers, of those who have seized their own futures. Those few are the groups that I call the strategic groups. There’s a choice, an intersection – the great intersection – and you’ve come to it today….
While on a website obviously aimed at the college student age group, I noticed an ad for a book by a well-known author. Below a picture of the book’s cover were the following words: “All of the words, printed on paper. Classic!” This is an interesting signpost of the impact of what Joseph Schumpeter called creative…
The common belief, and it may be quite true, is that change is the greatest cause of stress. But what if it can be used to your group’s advantage? In the mid 1980’s there was a well known West Coast billing service that told its clients that they had only follow three simple rules to…