Insights

The many forces driving some hospitals to financial distress make it impossible to maintain the status quo. Leaders can move beyond a binary close-or-don’t-close decision to reconsider what it means ... read more

With hundreds of competing priorities, hospital executive teams must focus on something they that they know they can spend time on and get real results from. An intense focus on improving length of s... read more

The moral issues coming at executives today are increasing exponentially in complexity, frequency, and intensity. Literature can help cultivate a practice of judicious thought that is as sophisticate... read more

Intense coaching styles were on display in the NCAA Division I basketball championships. While this intensity may not translate fully to complex corporate environments, can truly important results be... read more

In the current environment, it is extremely hard to build and retain effective professional teams. Striking the right balance between capability and compatibility is an essential task, dependent on t... read more

As interest around artificial intelligence’s potential builds, healthcare management teams must start grappling with questions on how this rapidly evolving technology might drive future organizationa... read more

A deeper dive into the numbers behind the numbers in Kaufman Hall’s National Hospital Flash Report generates a nuanced story, with results that are relevant to setting long-term social health policy ... read more

The problems with Boeing hold lessons for healthcare, an industry that—like aerospace—cannot afford to make mistakes. Hospital and health system leaders must build and maintain high reliability organ... read more

John Lynch was hired by the San Francisco 49ers in 2017 to turn the team around. The vision he created for the team holds important lessons for healthcare leaders working to acquire and retain the ve... read more

Former UCLA basketball coach John Gooden believed that quickness and a sense of urgency was absolutely necessary to winning in a competitive environment. But quickness must be accompanied by emotiona... read more