We have posted about why Great Leaders Need to Be Effective Managers. We’ve said finding an honest, hard-working, fair individual for a leadership position is of the utmost importance. An individual lacking any of these core features cannot effectively lead your team for the long term. To the contrary, an individual without those traits is likely to create an unhealthy … [Read more...] about Leadership Requires Effective Active Listening
Health Care Practice Dynamics
Red Flags for Medical Practice Embezzlement
Neither physicians nor practices want to believe that embezzlement can happen to them. Yet, embezzlement has happened, can happen, and will continue to happen. We want and need to believe in our team members, and indeed, we have to believe in one another for any team to be effective. For more on that topic refer the Leading the Team section of this … [Read more...] about Red Flags for Medical Practice Embezzlement
Great Leaders Are Effective Managers
For years numerous books and articles were written about the art of management, but over the past few years, the pendulum has swung toward a plea for leaders rather than managers. As a layer upon layer of management has been applied to the practice of medicine, it has become clear that managers have not created the smoothly running systems that we desperately need. In … [Read more...] about Great Leaders Are Effective Managers