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July/August 2025

Promoting employees prematurely can result in incompetence and eventual termination. The article emphasizes the importance of gradual development, emotional intelligence, clear expectations, and ongoing support to build effective leadership.

July/August 2025

The article explores low morale in healthcare, its causes and impacts on productivity, and offers 25 strategies and 5 games to boost morale, teamwork, and reduce stress.

July/August 2025

The board of a not-for-profit healthcare organization can be complex for a CMO. This article discusses navigating governance vs. operations, communication issues, trustees' fiduciary responsibilities, and the importance of CMO understanding for organ...

July 21, 2025

The authors detail the growing importance of “Share of Model” (SOM) a new concept that helps marketers gauge how prominently their brand appears before consumers in LLM searches. SOM is assessed through a three-pronged lens. Understanding where your ...

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July/August 2025

Effective communication is crucial for cultural change in healthcare organizations. Leaders must align strategic plans and core values with communication strategies, engaging various subcultures. If change stalls, adjust tactics or modify the message...

July 8, 2025

Workplace stress, on the rise for decades, has been treated by many organizations as a personal issue instead of a business-critical risk that merits executive oversight.

Core beliefs statements emphasize an organization's core values, realign negative employee values, and create a positive work culture focused on daily actions.

June 12, 2025

This article shows you how you can use gen AI tools for career coaching, with practical prompts and strategies to maximize your experience, learnings, and success.

June 3, 2025

Many companies see little impact from AI tools because generic models don’t align with how teams actually work. In this piece, we offer two key concepts that can help bridge that gap. These ideas help explain why traditional AI often falls short and ...

Over 25 years, EHRs have become integral in healthcare, enhancing access to medical information but also posing challenges. Leaders must innovate to improve care quality.

This article explores leadership's complexities, emphasizing learning from failures (FAME), thinking creatively, and pushing beyond comfort zones for success and inspiration.

AI is revolutionizing healthcare by processing vast data quickly for better diagnostics, treatment, and personalized care. It enhances accessibility, cost-efficiency, mental health support, and predictive analytics, while challenges like fairness and...

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