Your medical group may have a superpower.
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When my kids were small, they used to talk about their super powers. They were convinced that they were real.
We tend to forget that our ability to engage in analogies while safely ensconced in our homes and offices is due in large part to those in the U.S. armed forces who gave their lives in real war, in real battle, in real struggle.
Driver-less cars are getting in more accidents than those driven by people because these autonomous vehicles don’t know when to take risk; when to swerve out of the way or accelerate to avoid an accident. Are you taking the necessary risks in your practice?
Bureaucratic sorts are drawn to numbers because numbers can be gathered and processed and manipulated, all with the goal of lifetime employment for those bean counters.
Today, many small to medium size medical groups are in an existential battle. They may not realize it, but that doesn’t change the facts.
That summer at Magic Mountain was a petri dish of customer service and other business education. Here are 4.5 of the lessons that I learned.
Apparently, anyone (or so I told myself) could put someone in a roller coaster car, but few could cook hamburgers and fries, and, thanks to my mom’s training, could also make tacos, burritos and pizza.
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 […]
My dog stood body frozen stiff yet ready to lunge. His eyes fixed on the only object in his world, the squirrel eating seeds off the ground 14 feet away. The squirrel matched the stare, glanced at the tree about four feet distant and then, continuing to eat the entire time, just turned his back […]
