Many medical group leaders bemoan their group’s circumstances: caught in the hard place between increasing commoditization, what they believe to be the limitations of independent structure, and the pressure of national group competition.
Tag: strategy
Be honest: Do you own your practice or does it own you?
Your group’s only as strong as the foundation upon which it rests.
Independence, and its antipode, dependence, are constructs equally applicable to your business, and to yourself.
Your group has held the exclusive contract for your specialty services, for example anesthesiology or radiology, for decades, but now the hospital is holding an RFP.
Adopting a purely defensive position can never advance your or your medical group’s future.
You’ve heard that old expression to the effect that it’s better to do and then ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission in the first place.
We analogize business to war. Litigation to battle. Negotiation to struggle.
Train your medical group’s members for actions consistent with the group’s strategy.
Throughout most industries the middleman is disappearing.