Search Sort by Newest to OldestOldest to NewestRelevanceA-ZZ-A Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page › Last page Last The Importance of No-Regrets Strategies With hundreds of competing priorities, hospital executive teams must focus on something they that they know they can spend time on and get real results from. An intense focus on improving length of stay gives hospitals a significant advantage in financial performance. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Literature and Leadership The moral issues coming at executives today are increasing exponentially in complexity, frequency, and intensity. Literature can help cultivate a practice of judicious thought that is as sophisticated as these issues demand. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman How Intense Should a Leader Be? 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? Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Rethinking Building High-Performing Professional Teams 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. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman More Thoughts About Artificial Intelligence 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. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman The Numbers Behind the National Hospital Flash Report 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. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Don’t Let Your Hospital Be Boeing 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. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Vision and Talent 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. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman The Leadership Theories of Coach John Wooden: “Be Quick—But Don’t Hurry” 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. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Emotional IQ of Healthcare Leadership The hospital leadership issues that really matter right now center around the ability of hospital executives to possess and demonstrate an authentic emotional IQ to lead a diverse workforce in difficult circumstances. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Listening and Learning Before you can establish the organizational thought platform that best guides your hospital forward, you will need a leadership team that is committed to creating a “listening and learning” healthcare company. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” But Probably Not Right Now Hospital leadership faces an undeniably hard challenge: regaining financial stability, finding a relevant post-Covid competitive vision, and energizing teams with a renewed sense of purpose. But fighting back is the hospital job of the moment. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page › Last page Last
The Importance of No-Regrets Strategies With hundreds of competing priorities, hospital executive teams must focus on something they that they know they can spend time on and get real results from. An intense focus on improving length of stay gives hospitals a significant advantage in financial performance. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Literature and Leadership The moral issues coming at executives today are increasing exponentially in complexity, frequency, and intensity. Literature can help cultivate a practice of judicious thought that is as sophisticated as these issues demand. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
How Intense Should a Leader Be? 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? Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Rethinking Building High-Performing Professional Teams 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. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
More Thoughts About Artificial Intelligence 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. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
The Numbers Behind the National Hospital Flash Report 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. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Don’t Let Your Hospital Be Boeing 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. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Vision and Talent 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. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
The Leadership Theories of Coach John Wooden: “Be Quick—But Don’t Hurry” 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. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Emotional IQ of Healthcare Leadership The hospital leadership issues that really matter right now center around the ability of hospital executives to possess and demonstrate an authentic emotional IQ to lead a diverse workforce in difficult circumstances. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Listening and Learning Before you can establish the organizational thought platform that best guides your hospital forward, you will need a leadership team that is committed to creating a “listening and learning” healthcare company. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman
Comments on Current Management Issues in the Healthcare C-Suite: “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” But Probably Not Right Now Hospital leadership faces an undeniably hard challenge: regaining financial stability, finding a relevant post-Covid competitive vision, and energizing teams with a renewed sense of purpose. But fighting back is the hospital job of the moment. Thoughts from Ken Kaufman