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Tag: physician
Who’s Driving the Management Bus? – Success in Motion
Jim Collins wrote about putting the right people on the bus. Ride along with Mark as he talks about who’s driving it.
An Alternative Structure for Medical Group Compensation
Most medical groups have a two-level physician engagement/compensation structure: owners and non-owners. They also tend to have a ladder to ownership status along which physicians advance to the top rank. In some groups, all it takes is time; unless someone goes off the deep end, his or her partnership status is just a few years…
Do You Make This Mistake in English? – Podcast
It’s hard enough to watch what you say when you’re speaking, but at least you’ve got inflection on your side.
Are You Asking the Wrong Question About Your Future?
What underlies your profession or specialty? What underlies your desires? What’s your overriding professional function?
Hospitals No Longer Like to Make the Bed
As hospitals move toward “bedless” models, the real shift isn’t physical, it’s economic. Physician groups should be paying attention.
Breaking the Chains of the New Normal – Medical Group Minute
Many physicians, even physician group leaders, have trouble with the notion of transformational change because today’s payor and hospital centric status quo is their “normal.”
Is There a Failed NHS in YOUR Future?
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren seem to think that businesses don’t exist to make a profit. Grilling Aetna, as they plan to do this week, over the “real” reason it left the Obamacare exchanges won’t change the program’s failed economics.
It’s Human Nature: Incentivizing Performance – Medical Group Minute
In 1919, New York hotelier Raymond Orteig announced the Orteig Prize: $25,000 to the first aviation team to fly nonstop between New York and Paris.
It’s Human Nature: Incentivizing Performance – Podcast
In 1919, New York hotelier Raymond Orteig announced the Orteig Prize: $25,000 to the first aviation team to fly nonstop between New York and Paris.



