Healthcare costs too much, and we don’t get enough of the healthcare that we need. This is our core problem in one word: “productivity.” The obvious difficulties of healthcare in the U.S., where we can’t seem to take care of everyone, millions are saddled with...
You can hone your crystal ball–gazing skills to better forecast healthcare trends. The best forecasters read widely about all kinds of developments, even about trends that have nothing to do with their fields of expertise. You need to become a better futurist. You...
“See? Obamacare is failing!” according to industry expert C. Little, citing Wolf Report 712A just filed by Boy W. Cried. What is the hue and cry about this time? United Healthcare is saying it has lost large bales and wads of money on Obamacare exchange plans, and...
Successful strategies will be the ones that thrive despite high variance, multiple energy inputs and multiple strategic options. You follow movies? That is, not just watching them but thinking about how they are built, looking at the structure? In classic movie...
When the pace of change is accelerating, you need a flexible process and a paradoxical mind. How do you plan? Obviously, you have to. Obviously, you can’t. For your organization, and for you as a health care leader, the rapid and at times chaotic changes in the...
The Change-Master Series: Deep Dives Into the Essence of Change-Making and Leadership by Joe Flower Twenty years ago we talked in his cramped, book-lined, ex-carport study with the laden plum tree bowing its fruit over the garden gate outside. What Dr. Len Duhl had to...
