Pearls of Wisdom from Clinician Leaders to Help You Master Going from the Clinic to the C-suite
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Essential business knowledge condensed for busy clinicians
Understand P&L statements, budgeting, and financial metrics that drive healthcare organizations.
Learn frameworks for market analysis, competitive positioning, and long-term organizational vision.
Develop the interpersonal and management capabilities essential for executive roles.
Master process improvement and quality management principles applied to healthcare settings.
Learn to drive change and implement new initiatives in complex healthcare environments.
Navigate the path from clinical practice to executive leadership with confidence.
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Clinician leaders bridging the gap between medicine and the C-suite
15 focused chapters plus insights from leading clinician executives to transform your clinical expertise into executive leadership
Prioritization and intentional time management are essential. Create lists of priorities, use the "4 Ds" for email (Delete, Defer, Delegate, Do), and schedule dedicated work time to protect your most valuable resource: time.
Transitioning from clinical command-and-control to business management requires formal people skills, real-time feedback, conflict resolution, and coaching. Managing people is a learned skill, not an innate one.
Think like an operator. Adapt medical management tools to business projects. Vision setting, scorecards, Gantt charts, dashboards, and recurring management processes help drive projects to completion.
Learn the organization's nervous system. Understanding basic accounting, finance, budgeting, and healthcare-specific financial terms is crucial for credibility and leadership. Financial literacy empowers clinicians to lead effectively.
Cash flow, discounted cash flow, net present value, and internal rate of return are introduced with practical examples for healthcare investments.
Productively working with lawyers and regulatory teams. Risk management, contract types, and strategies for working constructively with legal and regulatory teams. Clinicians must learn to quantify and address risk.
Moving from patient to organizational thinking. Adopt population health perspectives, learn epidemiology, systems thinking, and policy, and leverage your clinical experience for organizational impact.
Have the tools to change the world. Design thinking and service design are introduced, emphasizing empathy, ideation, prototyping, and testing for healthcare innovation.
The key to transformation. Healthcare IT is demystified, including files, servers, interoperability, AI, and key healthcare systems. Actively engage with IT as another organ system.
Presenting and communicating effectively. Guidance on adapting communication style for business settings, structuring presentations, slide design, and cultivating executive presence.
Intentional career planning strategies, including tornado diagrams for satisfaction, five-year plans, and leveraging current roles for future growth.
Marketing fundamentals, consumer analysis, market segmentation, SWOT, and the 4Ps (Product, Place, Promotion, Price) explained in a healthcare context.
Strategic analysis frameworks (SWOT, value chain, Ansoff matrix, Porter's Five Forces) are outlined, with emphasis on implementation and adaptability.
Operating in the grey zone. Decision-making under uncertainty, triage, learning mindset, and strategies for leading through ambiguity.
The "Dirty Dozen" leadership derailers (perfectionism, poor communication, resistance to change, lack of accountability, and more) are listed with practical remedies.
Five insightful essays from accomplished clinician executives sharing real-world lessons from their journeys to healthcare leadership. Learn from those who have successfully navigated the transition from clinic to C-suite.
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