On one of those “this month in history” sites, I learned that January 2014 is the 221st anniversary of the execution of the French King Louis XVI. From exulted to executed in one or two, depending on whose version of history you choose, chops. A similar fate befalls many businesses. Consider, for example, the changes…
Tag: planning
A Medical Group in Motion
The same “law” that dictates motion contains a caveat: The object only says in that motion until it is acted upon by an unbalanced force.
Your Exclusive Contract Is About to Be Non-Exclusive
What good is an exclusive contract if the facility demands that it become non-exclusive?
The Chicken or the Egg?
Steve Jobs famously believed public demand wasn’t important in terms of identifying the market for new products. Instead, what Jobs envisioned the public would want wasn’t even on the public’s radar. On the other hand, the famous marketing expert Gary Halbert held, using a restaurant as an example, that the most important element in the…
The Fortune Teller
From down the street I could see the fortune teller’s shop. Did she know that I was coming? Go ahead, laugh. But if you’re a member of a 15 or more person medical group, do you have any clue, any clue at all, about your group’s future? I’m a fortune teller of sorts. I can…
Hedge or Hedgehog or ???
Those who are hedging view the world differently. Rather than simply building an insular hedge around their business, they expand outside of that hedge, taking on other business, in some ways both related and unrelated.
Girl Scout Cookies and Medical Group Success – Medical Group Minute
Sorry. None of your patients, referral sources, or the hospitals at which you practice cares about your success.
How Medical Groups Get Mired Fighting the Last War – Podcast
Many physician groups are fighting the last war, imagining that the threat to their existence is from, say, the hospital.
Girl Scout Cookies and Medical Group Success – Podcast
Sorry. None of your patients, referral sources, or the hospitals at which you practice cares about your success.
Does Your Medical Group Suffer From This Common Tragedy? – Medical Group Minute
In economic and ecological terms, the “tragedy of the commons” describes a situation in which those participating in a shared or common benefit abuse the privilege.