The October 2011 Harvard Business Review includes a column titled To Fix Health Care, Ask the Right Questions. The column was written by Henry Mintzberg, Director of the International Masters for Health Leadership program at McGill University. Mintzberg writes, “Fixing U.S. health care was never going to be easy, but some persistent myths have made it …
Imagine the short and long-term powerful positive impact of helping, coaching and successfully leading your direct reports, and other members of your team to improve in the following critically important areas: Effectively think on their feet under pressure as they state opinions and answer questions Cut through the clutter and communicate issues clearly in ways …
All successful healthcare leaders know the critical importance and impact of their Personal Presence. Regardless of title, level within the organization, or length and extent of experience, Personal Presence is, to a large extent, directly responsible for a successful life and career. To be an effective and successful healthcare leader, you must: Persuade others as you state opinions …
Steve Ventura, author of The Leadership Solution, wrote a brief, high-impact article that contains three simple but very effective leadership suggestions. The Leadership Solution is published on-line by WalkTheTalk.com. The article is titled, “Get Happier, Healthier, & More Productive.” Ventura writes the following: “One of the most effective ways to attain personal and professional success is to …
Winners and losers… both lose. You read that right… winners and losers both lose. The critical difference is the way winners handle losing! Harvard Business School professor, Rosabeth Moss Kanter addresses this critical issue in the April 2011 Harvard Business Review. Kanter writes: “Even for the best companies and most-accomplished professionals, long track records of …
Amy Cosper, Editor in Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, wrote the following in the June 2011 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine: “I remember Blockbuster. Not the sad, dusty, blighted Blockbuster of recent years. No, definitely not that one. I remember the hustling, bustling, sparkling Blockbuster where everyone rushed on Friday nights to rent the most recent Jason …
The August 29, 2011 issue of Time Magazine includes a well-written article that is important, and highly relevant to every leader, and certainly every healthcare leader in America! The article is entitled The New Greatest Generation. Author Joe Klein writes, “a new kind of war meant a new set of skills. Now veterans from …
When the people you lead come to any of your meetings, they have expectations. They expect to leave each of your meetings with specific and relevant information, direction and inspiration regarding accomplishing the mission and goals of your team and their organization. And so it is with any presentation, email or other communication from their …
If you want to improve your leadership skills and your leadership impact… improve your teaching skills and your teaching impact! Excellent leaders are excellent teachers. The best leaders are superb, inspirational teachers. Max Anderson, the founder of Simple Truths, wrote about two teachers who profoundly impacted his life. In a recent book titled Heart of …
Here is some excellent leadership advice from a highly successful leader at world-renowned National Geographic. It is applicable to every healthcare leader in the world. Meet with each member of your team, both individually and collectively, and empower them by empahatically and sincerely stating: “You don’t have to prove yourself, not to me, or to the …
“Let’s eliminate all the ‘I’s. Just say what ‘we’ will do.” “Shorten sentences and words.” This excellent advice came from one of the most admired and respected American leaders of the past half century, maybe the entire century. A man who inspired his colleagues and fellow citizens. A man who communicated with style, eloquence and …
There is much truth and power in the following high-impact leadership principle: “When we do what we choose to do, we are committed. When we do what we have to do, we are compliant.” Millions, probably billions of employees, staff, and associates across America and around the world are compliant, but not committed. The same is true in …
In the excellent book The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea, The Chairman, a very wise and successful entrepreneur and business leader is coaching Joe, a new student and mentee. The Chairman leans toward Joe in order to assure being heard with absolute clarity. With all the emphasis he can muster, The …
I do not know who wrote this simple, absolutely priceless advice. I do know that this advice is more precious and priceless than trainloads of pure gold. This advice, this “way of living” is 100% guaranteed to dramatically improve and enhance your leadership and your life! Read it. More importantly, remember and live it! …
We are in a study of Marshall Goldsmith’s excellent book, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful. Goldsmith identifies four key beliefs that help us become successful. Because these key beliefs are so deeply ingrained in successful people, these beliefs can make it difficult to make necessary changes …
We are in a study of Marshall Goldsmith’s excellent book, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful. The book is relevant to all healthcare executives who desire even greater success in the future. Goldsmith identifies four key beliefs that helped us become successful. Each key belief can make …
In the excellent book The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea, The Chairman, a very wise and successful entrepreneur and business leader is coaching Joe, a new student and mentee. The Chairman leans forward toward Joe, and The Chairman’s voice gets softer for greater emphasis. With all the emphasis he can muster, …
We are in a study of Marshall Goldsmith’s excellent book, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful. The book is relevant to all healthcare executives who desire even greater success in the future. Goldsmith coaches highly successful senior executives from Fortune 100 companies to behave more effectively in …
I recently received some excellent leadership advice from WALKTHETALK.com. Absolutely excellent leadership advice for any situation, in any industry, now or in the future. Follow this simple advice (not so simple to apply and live!) and you will dramatically improve the positive impact and positive results from your leadership! “Dear Leader, Here are …
We are in a study of Marshall Goldsmith’s excellent book, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful. The book is relevant to all healthcare executives who desire even greater success in the future. Goldsmith has a Ph.D in organizational behavior from UCLA and over 30 years of experience …