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Healthcare leaders by nature have a strong sense of responsibility, and mission. These are the people who stay late, answer emails on weekends, and carry the emotional and operational weight of complex systems. But in th...

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The 2025–2026 ski season in the western United States will be remembered not for bluebird powder days, but for their absence. What should have been a season of reliability and recreation instead became a case study in vo...

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Micromanagement in Medicine: Oversight or Oppression?

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Besides the military, healthcare may well be the last bastion of traditional \"command and control\" leadership. But this is changing even for the military, and medical leaders, from department chairs to chief medical off...

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When Everything Feels Like an Emergency

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The Myth That Faking Your Emotions Is A Leadership Skill

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Your Personal Year-End Review: A Complete Guide

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Maybe you have little or no experience with the coaching profession outside of sports. Most people don’t and they approach to executive and professional career coaching is very different. Most people when they ask me to ...

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How Physician Leaders Can Apply Generative AI to Improve Team Performance

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I realized my last several blogs have honestly been important but bummer topics. So let's talk about an upbeat topic that should come up more in coaching: Joy. Seriously, I recently walked into Dollar General, one of tho...

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Introduction

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Healthcare leadership is not for sissies. Every day, leaders in hospitals, clinics, and academic centers are asked to make decisions that shape the lives of patients, the wellbeing of clinicians, and the future of organi...

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For years I have heard some version of this statement on a regular basis. Of course we are talking about figurative deafness, and heck I’ve certainly had that thought myself in the past. When you feel that your boss does...

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The KUKD Epidemic

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Healthcare is commonly an exercise in contingency planning. What if your blood pressure drops? What if it goes up? What if there’s too much bleeding? What if that spot on the Xray turns out to be something? What if it do...

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Hasta La Vista, Baby

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This week I heard this term “Black Truths” twice and it was also directly applicable to a recent coaching conversation so in an effort to keep harmony with the universe, here we are. Let’s start off with some quick alig...

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Irresistible Force

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Immovable Object

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So much effort and so little results is a tough spot to be in. I had a client whose team was underperforming. It was not for lack of effort. The are working hard. They sought advice from other leaders and even outside ex...

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An interesting dilemma came up in a session recently. What do you do if you are asked to lead people, implement some program, or improve some metric when you, yourself are not very good at it? Doctors are by nature are u...

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Recently I had an interesting session with a high performing leader. The initial focus was on a recent “difficult” conversation with a report and their performance evaluation. They felt bad about the conversation and wan...

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