Many high-performing executives operate like caffeinated squirrels—hyper-driven, fast-moving, and constantly generating ideas—but their unchecked energy can create chaos, dilute strategy, and exhaust teams. While this intensity often looks like leade...

Naomi Lawrence-Reid, MD, shares her journey from clinical medicine to exploring innovative career paths. She founded Doctoring Differently to empower physicians.

Healthcare can learn from other industries, like hospitality and baseball, to improve patient experiences, loyalty, and service quality through shared principles.

Naomi Lawrence-Reid, MD, shares her journey from clinical medicine to exploring innovative career paths. She founded Doctoring Differently to empower physicians.

Medical writing offers diverse career paths, from education to marketing, showcasing its role in public health, patient education, and clinical practice.

After covering for open roles for a long time, leaders may struggle to adjust their schedules and responsibilities once new hires have filled the positions. While they should have more time on their calendar to focus on their individual responsibilit...

This article highlights the importance of workplace tidiness, explores reasons for sloppiness, offers strategies to address it, and promotes a culture of cleanliness.

Addressing poor employee performance requires understanding its root causes, effective communication, and balancing team priorities for organizational success.

Leaders can’t afford to take a “wait and see” approach to adopting generative AI. They need a plan for applying it differently than others in the value chain. The authors introduce a framework for thinking about gen AI strategically and offer practic...

Effective inpatient glycemic control prevents complications like diabetic ketoacidosis. Standardized protocols, education, and tech can reduce cases and improve outcomes.

CCC+C is a decision tool to differentiate medical errors from natural errors with 95% confidence, aiming to reduce frivolous malpractice lawsuits and costs.

Navigating health insurance hurdles for preventive care can be overwhelming. This story highlights the importance of understanding your insurance policy, filing appeals, and leveraging resources like HR support to fight for coverage. With persistence...

Healthcare can learn from other industries, like hospitality and baseball, to improve patient experiences, loyalty, and service quality through shared principles.

Change can be scary, which can activate the brain’s fight or flight response. So how can senior leaders help calm that threat response when introducing change initiatives?

Effective project management in medical practices involves careful planning, cost estimation, task organization, and scheduling to ensure timely, budget-conscious completion.

Leadership theory suggests CEOs should focus on high-level issues such as strategy and resource allocation. These authors challenge this conventional wisdom by spotlighting CEOs who dive deep into day-to-day execution rather than hovering at the stra...

As companies pour trillions into transformation efforts, few see lasting results. That’s because most organizations approach change like machines—rigidly, predictably, and from the top down.

In fast-moving industries and volatile markets, strategy is supposed to come from the C-level. But when it doesn’t, senior leaders must step up to translate ambiguity into clarity, maintain momentum, and keep teams focused.

To foster constructive disagreements, organizations should encourage individuals to modify their observable behaviors during conflicts. More specifically, the authors’ research has shown that employees should be more attentive to their linguistic beh...

Physician coaching helps doctors combat burnout, stress, and emotional exhaustion by fostering resilience, self-compassion, and work-life balance. Combined with peer-support groups, it offers a safe space for growth and healing, helping physicians re...

Caregiving should be approached as a leadership role, requiring preparation, planning, and support. Caregivers deserve recognition, resources, and assistance to navigate their vital responsibilities effectively.

Healthcare organizations face billions in revenue losses from Medicare cuts, halted value-based care models, and reduced federal funding. Traditional siloed leadership cannot tackle these interconnected challenges. This white paper emphasizes the cri...

This article likens financial health to personal health, offering tips to identify early financial issues and strategies to improve outcomes, like a check-up.

Ron Howrigon discusses his shift to advocating for physicians, critiquing U.S. healthcare flaws, and proposing reforms to improve care and reduce bureaucracy.

Cross-functional teams in healthcare address complex challenges, but guidance for physician leaders is limited. This article offers practical insights for success.

Motivating employees involves meeting intrinsic and extrinsic needs through autonomy, recognition, and purpose, using strategies like collaboration and empowerment.

New research from Gartner finds that in many companies, the C-suite team isn’t acting like one. Surveys show that just 31% of C-suite executives consider the C-suite to be their primary team. When senior leaders are asked about their team, they’re mo...

From closing knowledge gaps in finance and AI to building emotional intelligence and peer communities, the future of healthcare demands bilingual leaders fluent in both medicine and strategy.

AAPL believes physician leaders who are pursuing leadership education and training — and the organizations that are supporting their effort — should be able to clearly see the value of their time, money, and effort.

Many high-performing executives operate like caffeinated squirrels—hyper-driven, fast-moving, and constantly generating ideas—but their unchecked energy can create chaos, dilute strategy, and exhaust teams. While this intensity often looks like leade...