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- 1From:Physician Executive (Vol. 36, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAutumn makes me think about seasons more than any other time of year. There is a parallel between the cycle of spring, summer, fall and winter and the cycles of our career: preparation, exploration, application and...
- 2From:Physician Executive (Vol. 36, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe room was abuzz with excited conversation as 35 mid-level managers brainstormed about needs in their organization. The goal of the exercise was to come up with a list of current needs that they might address during...
- 3From:Physician Executive (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFred Smith, founder and CEO of FEDEX, has a reputation for asking employees three important questions during his field visits: 1. Are you happy with what you are doing? 2. Are you happy with where you are going?...
- 4From:American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (Vol. 71, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedMost physicians are trained as individual contributors and it's only on the job that they are actively confronted with the realities of working with teams. As residents, and eventually as physicians in a given...
- 5From:Physician Executive (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMost physicians are trained as individual contributors and it's only on the job that they are actively confronted with the realities of working with teams. As residents, and eventually as physicians in a given...
- 6From:Physician Executive (Vol. 35, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen I first met Jerry he was VP of information technology at a prestigious hospital in a large metropolitan city. Reporting to the CIO he was responsible for all IT operations including the transition to a new software...
- 7From:Physician Executive (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWe hear a lot about performance today. We use many labels to describe top performers--high achievers, fast trackers and Type-A's. Whatever they are called, these are people who share several common characteristics: *...
- 8From:Physician Executive (Vol. 37, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedHow many times have you heard someone say, "It's not what they said. It's how they said it that really got to me." While this observation is often expressed in the context of an employee termination or performance...
- 9From:Physician Executive (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEveryone wants to be a success. From our earliest years we are conditioned to think about performance and how others react to what we do. However one defines and measures success, (which is something we all need to...
- 10From:Physician Executive (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"What's the bottom line," Ron asked me, "about being a successful manager? There are so many books and seminars about management; 1 don't know where to begin. Can you boil it down to the essentials?" Ron, CEO of a large...
- 11From:Physician Executive (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThomas Edison was a man with great potential who refused to let failure hold him back. He and his team are credited with over 1,000 U.S. patents and thousands of inventions from the phonograph to the incandescent light...
- 12From:Physician Executive (Vol. 35, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed"Dan, you are an acquired taste." Those words, spoken by the CEO of a large U.S. corporation to one of his senior leaders were an acknowledgement that Dan was indeed not only difficult to deal with but required that...
- 13From:Physician Executive (Vol. 37, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed"I don't micromanage my people. If they need me, my door is always open and they know I'm ready to help them. They're adults and need to be given autonomy to do their thing. I wouldn't have hired them if I didn't have...
- 14From:Physician Executive (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn my last column (The Physician Executive, Jan/Feb 2009) I wrote an article entitled "What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?" In it, I recommended that we not allow our careers to manage us--we must manage them....
- 15From:Physician Executive (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHow many times have you been asked, "Are you open to that?" Whatever "that" may be is not the issue. The point is that openness is the first step to engagement and is often the doorway that can lead to results. It all...
- 16From:Physician Executive (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAll of us have been asked "What do you want to be when you grow up?" at some point in our lives. As a child I was asked that question and my answer was always the same: "a fisherman." I loved to fish, so that's what I...
- 17From:Physician Executive (Vol. 35, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWe've all seen it before. A management position becomes available and an individual contributor is tapped to fill this important position even though they may have minimal or no previous management experience. This...