Better Late than Never - JAMA Article Advocates Banning Academic Medical Leaders from Serving on Many Health Care Corporate Boards

Will wonders never cease? Eight years after we started posting about this issue, it has made it into a large circulation medical journal, al...

Better Late than Never - JAMA Article Advocates Banning Academic Medical Leaders from Serving on Many Health Care Corporate Boards 2015-05-10T21:32:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

The Continuing Mystery of the Fugitive Founder and Missing Money - What it Says About the Opacity of Offshore Medical Schools

The next chapter in the bizarre tale of the fugitive founder of an off-shore (from the US and Canada) Caribbean medical school, and his now ...

The Continuing Mystery of the Fugitive Founder and Missing Money - What it Says About the Opacity of Offshore Medical Schools 2015-05-08T00:09:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Through a Glass Darkly - How Can So Many Health Care Executives Be Visionaries?

Visionary (noun) 1 :   one whose ideas or projects are impractical :   dreamer 2 :   one who sees visions :   seer 3 :   one...

Through a Glass Darkly - How Can So Many Health Care Executives Be Visionaries? 2015-05-06T23:45:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

What Does the Blumsohn - Procter and Gamble -Sheffield University Affair Say About the Fitness of the Latest VA Secretary Candidate?

Introduction - New Leadership for the US Department of Veterans Affairs After reports of problems with access, manipulation of data about ...

What Does the Blumsohn - Procter and Gamble -Sheffield University Affair Say About the Fitness of the Latest VA Secretary Candidate? 2015-05-06T23:33:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

A Sewage-Laden Cruise Ship, Burning Aircraft Batteries, Neo-Nazi Factory Security - Will Jaw Dropping Cases Prompt the Public to Demand Better Leadership?

The dysfunction of modern health care likely arises from larger trends within the economy and the society.  We frequently discuss how poor l...

A Sewage-Laden Cruise Ship, Burning Aircraft Batteries, Neo-Nazi Factory Security - Will Jaw Dropping Cases Prompt the Public to Demand Better Leadership? 2013-02-15T12:57:00-08:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Question for the New Year: Why is There Next to No Reaction to the Gilded Age of Health Care?

For the New Year, it is time to ponder- why is there still no organized outrage over the ongoing incompetent , uncaring , self-interested ,...

Question for the New Year: Why is There Next to No Reaction to the Gilded Age of Health Care? 2012-12-31T09:07:00-08:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Health Care Academics' Unrest and Bad Health Care Leadership?

Last month we discussed a recent, large scale study of physician burnout, and wondered whether it would finally inspire some discourse abou...

Health Care Academics' Unrest and Bad Health Care Leadership? 2012-10-03T12:34:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Traits that "Define a Great Hospital CFO" - Honesty, Integrity, Accountability not Included

A recent article in Becker's Hospital Review entitled, "6 Traits That Define a Great Hospital CFO" [Chief Financial Officer] ...

Traits that "Define a Great Hospital CFO" - Honesty, Integrity, Accountability not Included 2012-10-01T10:51:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

More "Visionary" Leadership That Turned Out to be "More Interested in Flash than Substance" - Continuing Troubles at the University of Miami

Over the last 20 years or so, health care organizational leaders somehow ceased to be mere mortals, and became visionaries.  The latest exam...

More "Visionary" Leadership That Turned Out to be "More Interested in Flash than Substance" - Continuing Troubles at the University of Miami 2012-08-01T09:14:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

The CEO as False Messiah

Why is the leadership of health care organizations so bad?  An important explanation of one part of the puzzle appears on InformationWeek...

The CEO as False Messiah 2012-05-13T20:34:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown