There's nothing wrong with the notion of getting a little bit better each day, month or year. That is, if you discount the fact that improving the current structure of your group might keep you from getting where you really could be.
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Adopting a purely defensive position can never advance your or your medical group’s future.
There's nothing wrong with the notion of getting a little bit better each day, month or year. That is, if you discount the fact that improving the current structure of your group might keep you from getting where you really could be.
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Mark F. Weiss
Jim Collins wrote about putting the right people on the bus. Ride along with Mark as he talks about who’s driving it.
But from the moment I merged onto U.S. 101 heading south into Los Angeles to give a grand rounds presentation, there were other cars on the road. By 5:30 a.m., as I approached the major arteries of the L.A. freeway system, the road was crowded.
I began to play the imagination game: Where was everyone going?
Many, I suppose, were headed to factory jobs that started at 6:00 or even 7:00. The same drive in, day after day. The same start, middle and end of work. The same drive home.
That morning, as I gave my lecture, I commented on the experience to the audience, medical residents and attending staff. I questioned them as as a group, as I question you now:
It could be that you provide emergency medicine, or anesthesiology, or pathology, or radiology services, or that you are an office practice physician in a group. But how many of you are going to a factory, too, just a factory of a different kind? How may of you have the same factory worker mentality? The mentality of “I’ll work for what they give me” — sure the “reward” is quantitatively different but the situation is qualitatively the same. The mentality of the same old same old, of plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
To break free requires a change in mentality. As they say, a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
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Mark F. Weiss
Adopting a purely defensive position can never advance your or your medical group’s future.
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