challenging accepted thinking | offering solutions
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Opening Remarks by Continue reading “Book Launch: When Politics Comes Before Patients – Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing”
Many of us spend life chasing what we want but remain confused on what we need.
Perhaps we dream about the time we (finally) say what we think.
Someday I will say, “Sir, you eat too much.”
Even to suggest such a vicious thought betrays an unconscious heartlessness. (Call the college!)
Imagine charting only useful clinical data: AOM, Rx Amox. Nothing more. Delete 300 words about all you did not find – all you considered but did not do.
How long could you hide your rebellion? A day? A week or more?
To sleep, perchance to dream…
In a character-defining scene, Walter sits on a bench waiting for the train. The elevated platform stands several stories above street level.
Walter chats on his cellphone with Todd Maher of eHarmony, an online dating service. Walter loves Cheryl, a co-worker, and wants to leave her a ‘wink’ online.
Todd looks at Walter’s profile. It is blank. Walter must tell about himself: What he has done? Where he has travelled?
But Walter hasn’t travelled or done anything special. He just goes to work.
“Have you done anything, noteworthy? … or mentionable?” Todd asks.
Walter freezes. The phone slips from his ear.
A distressed dog barks inside a nearby building. Something is wrong and Walter must find out.
Walter starts running past all the businesspeople on the platform. He picks up speed and leaps over the railing, arms outstretched. Flying through the air, Walter falls several stories and crashes through a window in a low-rise next to the train. Continue reading “Walter Mitty — Needs vs Wants”
Strategic thinking is strange for most people. We hear the words without a clue what they mean.
And why should we?
For many, strategic thinking sounds like psychobabble at best, one more way to control clinical medicine.
Many doctors go into leadership out of frustration. They take a pay cut to trade a day in clinic for the boardroom. Tired of reactive, failing organizations, they take the lead to refocus on things that matter.
Organizations do not fail because they aim at the wrong target. They fail because they do not know how to aim. They point guns they have never used at targets they cannot define. God help anyone who questions their efforts.
Intention is not strategy. Intention means you feel deeply and act on purpose. You burst with ideas, but none of this is strategic. Continue reading “Strategic Thinking: 4 Simple Steps, 5 Common Traps”