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Intense coaching styles were on display in the NCAA Division I basketball championships. While this intensity may not translate fully to complex corporate environments, can truly important results be achieved without a level of intensity that would be considered out of the ordinary?

In the current environment, it is extremely hard to build and retain effective professional teams. Striking the right balance between capability and compatibility is an essential task, dependent on the needs of a particular organization at a particular point in time.

While days cash on hand is a pillar liquidity ratio for healthcare, liquidity is an equally important concept. There is a difference between wealth and liquidity, and recent events have demonstrated the growing importance of the latter.

As interest around artificial intelligence’s potential builds, healthcare management teams must start grappling with questions on how this rapidly evolving technology might drive future organizational strategy. The path forward will require reading, learning, and experimentation.

U.S. employers have played a dual role in the health insurance of their employees – both paying for their health insurance coverage and choosing their health insurance options. These two roles have been tied at the hip, but now, ICHRA (individual coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement) products offer an opportunity to bifurcate that role.

Upgrades and downgrades reflect the realities of what ratings are intended to do, which is to reflect the rating agency’s best assessment of an organization’s performance for investors. Upgrades must be earned and downgrades may happen quickly, but affirmations are most typical.

Since the late 1980s, financial planning has been a core focus of Kaufman Hall’s work. A recent leadership change emphasized the importance of financial planning to the for-profit corporate world. It should be given similar priority in the not-for-profit hospital universe.

A deeper dive into the numbers behind the numbers in Kaufman Hall’s National Hospital Flash Report generates a nuanced story, with results that are relevant to setting long-term social health policy agenda and to the strategic management of complex provider organizations.

The problems with Boeing hold lessons for healthcare, an industry that—like aerospace—cannot afford to make mistakes. Hospital and health system leaders must build and maintain high reliability organizations.

How you tell the story of your organization is as important as the story itself. Paying attention to three key themes will help ensure that your best voice is being heard in rating committee.

John Lynch was hired by the San Francisco 49ers in 2017 to turn the team around. The vision he created for the team holds important lessons for healthcare leaders working to acquire and retain the very best talent.

Former UCLA basketball coach John Gooden believed that quickness and a sense of urgency was absolutely necessary to winning in a competitive environment. But quickness must be accompanied by emotional and professional balance in order to achieve excellence.