A difficult reality in American healthcare today is the steady decline of the private practice doctors office. According to the Physicians Foundation 2018 Physician Survey only 31.4% of physicians today identify as independent practice owners or partners. This is down from 48.5% reported in 2012. The reasons for this downward trend are many. For one, […]
Why All Top Performers Know They Need a Coach
Studying Excellence Michael Jordan. Tom Brady. Simone Biles. Shaun White. These are some of the biggest names in sports. The level of excellence each has demonstrated in their respective careers has elevated their status beyond the arena of competition, and catapulted them to international fame. While each of the star athletes listed above competed in […]
Management by Objectives: A Proven Leadership Formula
Management by objectives is a useful framework for aligning long term business strategy with the day-to-day tasks of your employees. This post gives a brief history of how management by objectives rose in popularity, modern critiques of its usefulness, and the five steps you can take to implement a version of MBO in your organization […]
A Lesson On Setting Goals from Warren Buffett
Intelligent and ambitious people are wired to do more. For us, the start of a new year is like a rush of adrenaline. New ideas for goals we want to pursue pulse through minds just as fast as we can write them down. Yet this dopamine-induced high for what opportunities lay ahead in the new […]
Why Goal Setting Fails: A Better Way to Achieve What We Want
When SMART is Dumb “Read 3 business books on my reading list, to help me be a better boss, by July 1st” is a SMART goal. It’s specific, measurable, attainable, results orientated, and time-limited. This is how many of us have been taught to structure our goals. Simply write them down using this framework and […]
Why Your Morning Huddle Isn’t Working
A quick Google search of “morning huddle” returns hundreds of articles that preach the benefits of meeting with your team first thing every day. It’s no secret that teams in every industry, from manufacturing to computer software to healthcare, are meeting together each morning because management experts have convinced us it’s worth it. And I […]