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Motivations and Thinking Style
860 articles
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You Need to Understand Your Employees’ Caregiving Responsibilities
Employees regularly balance work with caregiving responsibilities, whether it is child care, eldercare, or caring for another family member. Yet many organizations lack visibility into who their caregivers are and wha...
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Your Transformation Doesn’t Need an Endpoint
In the August 31 edition of The Insider newsletter, managing editor Gretchen Gavett shares an argument for why organizational transformation should be a learning journey, a formula to gauge your geopolitical risk, and...
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Healing from the Inside Out: How Medicine Must Learn to Share Its Power
Dr. Rana Awdish shares her transformative journey from patient to physician leader, emphasizing the importance of vulnerability, communication, and collaborative healing in medicine.
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To Adopt AI at Scale, Employees Need to Trust Agents
Trust is a central obstacle to realizing the potential of AI agents at work. Employees are unlikely to give agents meaningful autonomy if they are uncertain about their reliability, intentions, or ability to act safely.
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Women In Healthcare Leadership
Women comprise most of healthcare’s workforce but remain underrepresented in senior leadership, CEO roles, professional societies, journal editorships, and influential healthcare rankings.
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Our Favorite Management Tips on Setting Strategy When the Path Is Unclear
In this article, we’ve compiled 10 of our favorite tips on setting strategy when the path is unclear, from how to find your organization’s strategic center to how to build your tolerance for uncertainty.
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Filling the Cracks with Gold
A physician leader reflects on an ICU nurse’s opioid use disorder, exploring trust, accountability, patient safety, and the power of compassionate systems that support recovery.
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Research: Why Some Junior Employees Work Well with AI—and Others Don’t
Organizations need to understand how individuals create value beyond the AI baseline in real organizational settings, particularly in higher-stakes professional work requiring judgment, domain expertise, and decision-...
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Resigned to Resignation: When Asked to Step Down as a Medical School Dean
Medical school deans face complex roles, balancing diverse relationships and short tenures averaging four years. Success requires strategic planning, viewing the role as a step in their academic journey.
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Harnessing the Power of Social Proof to Maximize Success: How Physician Leaders Can Avoid the Catastrophe of Failed Organizational Change Campaigns
This article provides an innovative and practical approach to the use of social proof theory to enhance the effectiveness of popular models for organizational change.
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From Clinician To C-Suite: When Expertise Isn’t Enough — Addressing Systemic Barriers to Physician Leader Success
This study explores systemic causes of physician leadership fatigue, highlighting vague roles, poor onboarding, and limited support. It recommends organizational reforms to boost retention, well-being, and care quality.
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Ethical Leadership in Healthcare: A Multilevel Framework for Physician Leaders
This article introduces a physician-specific ethical leadership framework to address challenges like AI, clinician burnout, and financial pressures. It highlights learnable behaviors to foster integrity in healthcare.
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A Physician, a Rare Disease, and the Art of Being Present with Dr. Lyndsay Hoy
Lyndsay Hoy, MD, shares her journey with rare lung disease LAM, balancing life as a physician and patient. She discusses her marriage, advocacy for rare disease awareness, and the power of empathy and resilience.
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Great Leaders Question Philosophical Assumptions
Business leaders increasingly face decisions that are not just technical or financial but deeply philosophical. Questions about what a company is for, what counts as reliable knowledge, and what responsibilities organ...
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Public Speaking: Creating Presentations that Are Awe Inspiring Not Yawn Producing
Improve your public speaking with practical tips tailored for physicians. Learn how to engage your audience, deliver value, and leave a lasting impression with every presentation.
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How the Best Leaders Respond to Rule Breaking
Misconduct at work is often treated as a simple problem, yet research shows it is anything but. Drawing on more than 250 studies, Michael J. Gill of the University of Oxford finds that employees break rules for a wide...
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Making the Leap from Corporate Leader to PE-Backed CEO
Unlike most corporations, PE firms demand immediate value creation, lean execution, and direct, high-candor engagement with investors and boards. Rigorous assessment of candidates’ ability to deliver those things—and ...
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Our Favorite Management Tips on Giving Feedback
In this article, we’ve compiled eight of our favorite tips on giving feedback, from how to use feedback to give employees a sense of purpose to how to choose the right coaching style for each of your employees.
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What the Doctors Said: The Qualitative Story Within Physician Leadership Development Research
The article analyzes physician narratives from a study on leadership development, revealing themes like trust, communication, and reflection. It highlights how safe environments foster growth and reduce burnout.
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What Physician Leaders Need to Know About Change Management for AI
Physician leaders must navigate change management as AI transforms clinical care, tackling challenges without a clear playbook to guide this pivotal shift.
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The CPE Credential as a Catalyst for Healthcare Transformation: A Personal and Organizational Perspective
The Certified Physician Executive (CPE) equips physicians with leadership skills to manage complex healthcare systems, enhancing individual and organizational performance.
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Improving Physician Organizational Attitudes and Leadership Self-Efficacy
A study on a 12-month chief medical officer leadership program found significant improvements in leader self-efficacy, shared vision, and organizational commitment, enhancing leadership confidence and alignment.
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Finding Your Voice: A Physician Leader’s Guide to Public Speaking
Public speaking is vital for physician leaders but often causes anxiety. This article offers strategies like preparation, audience focus, and organized content to help healthcare professionals present effectively.
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The Pros and Cons of Continually Assessing Performance
As AI rapidly changes the division of labor between people and machines, organizations need ways of understanding employee capabilities that are more dynamic than just job titles, résumés, and periodic reviews. Contin...
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Don’t Underestimate the Value of Professional Friendships
Most people try to keep work and friendship in separate boxes, but that division is counterproductive. Professionals now spend more time with colleagues than with anyone else, and strong personal ties at work are dire...
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Are You Meeting the Needs of the People You Lead?
Organizations often assume leadership succeeds or fails because of a leader’s style. But research on follower psychology suggests the bigger issue is alignment: Employees judge leaders based on whether they provide wh...
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How to Build a Superteam That Keeps Getting Better
In periods of rapid change, the teams that outperform everyone else are not those with the best plans or the most talent but those that learn the fastest. Research across thousands of teams reveals a consistent patter...
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Creep or Coopetition: What Physician Leaders Must Decide About the Future of Medical Practice
Healthcare faces growing scope overlap among clinicians, shifting from competition to "coopetition." Physician leadership is vital to navigate this complex collaboration.
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Managing Difficult Directors
Boards often struggle not because of strategy or information gaps but because one director’s behavior disrupts how the group works. There are three main types of difficult directors: passive passengers (who remain sil...
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Negotiating When There Is No Plan B
How can negotiators find leverage even when they appear to have no viable alternatives? The absence of a clear BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement) doesn’t mean dealmakers are powerless; they can expand ...
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Dealing with Physicians Who Won’t Get with the Guidelines
Healthcare leaders must address noncompliance with guidelines through respectful dialogue, transparency, and teamwork to ensure patient safety, uphold standards, and drive positive change.
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Whom Physicians Become Under Pressure
Healthcare leadership faces structural pressure, with lives at stake and constrained resources. Burnout, trust erosion, and blame persist, highlighting the need for values-driven leadership under stress.
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Servant Leadership and the Chief Medical Officer: Ethos Made Operational
Servant leadership empowers physician executives to navigate clinical complexity and limited authority by fostering moral authority, psychological safety, and workforce engagement. It emphasizes structured listening, ...
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Landing the Job
The author shares her journey to becoming CMO, tackling negotiation, gender bias, and career growth, emphasizing preparation, strategy, and collaboration.
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An Unexpected Outcome: How Leadership Development May Reduce Physician Burnout
Physician burnout is a healthcare crisis often tackled with costly programs. A study found leadership development, focusing on character and collaboration, unexpectedly reduced burnout, offering new intervention insig...
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Responding to a HIPAA Violation
Healthcare professionals must strictly adhere to HIPAA regulations and ethical guidelines, prioritizing patient privacy and proper authorization over personal relationships or curiosity. Unauthorized access to patient...
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Will Your Investors Support Your Strategic Pivot?
Strategic pivots often fail—not because of poor ideas or execution but because companies misjudge how attached investors are to their existing strategy. Firms actively cultivate shareholders who are aligned with a par...
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The Butterfly Effect and the Medical Practice
Small changes can create big impacts, known as the butterfly effect. This article explores its relevance in healthcare and modern medical practices.
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How Senior Leaders Can Build Their Influence
You propose a strategic shift. The case is solid, the logic sound. But weeks later, nothing moves. You advocate for a technology investment and get polite nods, then silence. You’re in the upper ranks of your organiza...
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Strategic Management in Clinical Gastroenterology: From Purpose to Value Creation
Strategic management in gastroenterology empowers physician leaders to tackle healthcare challenges like complexity and workforce demands. By aligning structured strategies with clinical goals, it enhances efficiency,...
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Improving the Physician Experience to Attract, Retain, and Engage Top Physician Talent — Part 2: Refocusing the Physician Leader’s Role on Engaging the Team
This article explores physician leadership's evolving role and suggests strategies to enhance effectiveness, including role clarity, structured meetings, and self-leadership, to improve well-being and reduce burnout.
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Followership and Leadership: A Symbiotic Partnership for Success
Followership is a vital aspect of leadership, emphasizing active engagement, critical thinking, and shared vision. Strong leader-follower partnerships rely on trust, respect, communication, and adaptability.
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To Scale AI Agents Successfully, Think of Them Like Team Members
Generative AI agents can reason, plan, and take actions across enterprise systems, which means deploying them is not just a software installation but a change to how work gets done. When agents gain the ability to exe...
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What Kind of Micromanager Are You?
Micromanagement isn’t inherently bad; it can be strategic, sporadic, or chronic. Effective micromanagers balance transparency, timing, tone, and team trust.
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Maternal Health: A Strategic Imperative for Transforming U.S. Health Systems
Maternal mortality in the U.S. is rising, with Black women facing rates over three times higher than white women. This highlights systemic health failures and the need to prioritize maternal health as a core strategy....
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Culture and Communities of Practice in Changing Times
The article examines culture and community, highlighting “communities of practice” that foster growth through shared interests. It discusses how healthcare professionals can lead cultural shifts post-pandemic.
