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PHILADELPHIA – For hospital senior executives facing a tangled mess of financial challenges and competitive threats, there is an extraordinary opportunity for those who want to reshape their leadership style in a way that will allow their organizations not only to achieve exceptional clinical quality and patient safety performance but to also produce financial results that will support their community mission and provide for the wellcare of their communities for the foreseeable future.

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Companies must disclose, not withhold information from candidates during the recruiting process.

You cannot operate a successful onboarding program without fully integrating recruitment. A great onboarding program cannot be optimally effective if new employees – executives, department managers, supervisors and line employees – don’t fully understand and support the organization’s mission, its values, corporate cultural and performance expectations – prior to employment.

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DALLAS, Texas (March 31, 2009) -- As unemployment numbers continue their worrisome climb, and as the stock market moves erratically up and down with so many retirement plans hanging in the balance, I have been thinking lately about the much anticipated shift in the workforce -- as Baby Boomers retire they will be replaced by eager Gen-Xers. For years workforce gurus and insurance actuarial analysts have been proclaiming the arrival of this moment in time. Now that the time has finally arr… Continue

... people who become obsessed with the daily data dump of increasingly bad economic news, are more likely to make mistakes in critical business situations.

This is not the time to hide in the closet. There will be big winners and some spectacular losers in these tumultuous times. You can let the bad news set your strategy or you can plot a course to take advantage of new opportunities that will certainly present themselves while everyone else is watching the doom and gloom on the 24/7 cable ne… Continue

Dallas, Texas (November 16, 2008) -- The great thing about my job is that I get to meet and talk with a wide range of current and former health system and hospital executives.

Most of the time these encounters occur at ACHE events or other conferences. Occasionally they are chance meetings in hotel lobbies or airports. I am struck by how often these serendipitous encounters occur even though our industry is modest in size. However, in the interest of fairness and full disclosure, I have… Continue