A Field of Dreams for Healthcare Innovation
A Field of Dreams for Healthcare Innovation Recently, I have learned about a new community that is being constructed in Nevada called Union Village. It is more than a plan, but soon to become a model for innovation in community-based healthcare delivery. It is an inspiration of what is possible when thought leaders representing all corners of the healthcare market space and care continuum, land/community development, architecture, politics and unions come together with all their respective paints and techniques to create a new picture...
read moreHow Companies Reach High Performance
The DNA of High Performing Companies It has been several years since I had the pleasure of working with colleagues to produce the High Performance Measurement Model. Since that time I have applied this framework in my consulting, and while doing so have continued to add to it. During this past year I found myself doing more in the area of leadership assessment and development and have renamed and updated the original measurement model to reflect particular focus on 10 attributes of leaders who cast positive and lasting shadows across their...
read moreWhy Leaders Do Dumb Things?
I’ve worked with numerous leaders over the years and continue to be amazed at how derailed some can become. The most effective are self aware individuals who know and don’t know and are never afraid to ask for help and learn. These are great people and wonderful clients. Then there are others that are really not fun to support. Yes, on a few occasions I have connected them with other consulting or advisory resources as these are the leaders that, in spite of reality, just do not have the capacity to change. Here are Dave’s Top 10...
read moreAction Learning: Back to the Future
Over the last three decades, the resources and energy devoted to leadership development in corporations has continued to rise. While the investment has grown, the ROI has actually decreased. Executives continue to fund leadership development programs while they pay little attention to alternatives to traditional “training” that have proven to make a difference—solving business problems through learning! “Action Learning” (learning by doing) is something we have all experienced, but don’t always consider as a foundation to...
read moreMy Best Clients
Over the years I have been fortunate to provide advisory, consulting and coaching support to a number of great leaders. Stated another way, I have been lucky and selective about accepting projects with leaders who sincerely want to get something done while declining projects for leaders who are not ready, willing and/or able to make a difference. Today, I read a blog post by Josh Linkner in Fast Company where he reflects on “Life Lessons Learned from Steve Jobs”. While Steve continues to be a monumental force in driving innovation that...
read moreTruths About Executive Development Coaching
Truths about Executive Development Coaching Boards of Directors are increasingly holding CEOs accountable to serve as development coaches to their successors. It is no longer acceptable for the CEO to hire an outsider to do her/his work. Chances are that if the CEO does not have the motivation and skill to coach potential successors, they either have, or will have, limited credibility with their Boards. And their executive teams will not perform to their potential. This issue is placing CEOs at risk if they do not step up. Executive...
read moreHow To Create a Culture of Collaboration
In the recent Harvard Business Review, an outstanding “spotlight on collaboration” is offered. As I reflect on the perspectives offered, I am reminded about how much the spirit of collaboration has been part of my life and how I have experienced this dynamic with colleagues and clients. To summarize what I have experienced in some great organizations, building a culture of collaboration is not for the ego-centric or impatient. It is about setting a business grounded rationale that aligns strategy, leadership, culture, value and brand. As...
read moreCreativity and Innovation: Get Out Of Our Own Way!
I thank Derek Sivers, http://sivers.org/obvious, for this pearl of wisdom. In my work as an consultant to Executives, my role is to help. Often times I help people to unlearn what they have learn over years of experience. Derek reminds me of some so important: While humility is foundational to great leaders, leaders themselves can be the barriers to innovation as they allow premature judgement in the form of self-criticism to stifle creative ideas….. “Obvious to you. Amazing to others. Any creator of anything knows this feeling:...
read moreHurry, Let’s Acquire That Physician Group Before Someone Else Does.
There is as much energy in the market to buy doctors as there is to purchase an IPad 2. Hospitals, private equity firms and 2.0 practice management companies are all in the hunt. The later two possessing much better access to capital and possibly more longer-term orientation. From the hospital perspective, it starts with the making the numbers work. There are typically assumptions about the P&L that illustrate how the acquisition will result in additional volume from physician referrals, as well as expense reductions through the...
read moreAccountable Care Organizations Need Solid Leadership DNA
So what will make a difference—-this time? Many of you can remember the days of utilization review, capitation, and all the strong arm techniques that failed. The failure was not only driven by poor design and bad information. Additionally, a lack of clinical expertise at the helm, combined with some of the most ineffective organizational and individual leadership most of us have ever experienced certainly caused failures. Those with dark blue suits and with white coats did not engage positively in a new model or with one another. As a...
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