The article examines culture and community, highlighting “communities of practice” that foster growth through shared interests. It discusses how healthcare professionals can lead cultural shifts post-pandemic.
Maternal mortality in the U.S. is rising, with Black women facing rates over three times higher than white women. This highlights systemic health failures and the need to prioritize maternal health as a core strategy. Healthcare leaders should focus ...
Primary care is under pressure as CMS expansions, Medicare Advantage requirements, and EMR demands overwhelm workflows, eroding trust, staff stability, and patient care. Redesign is vital for recovery.
The article examines culture and community, highlighting “communities of practice” that foster growth through shared interests. It discusses how healthcare professionals can lead cultural shifts post-pandemic.
Leaders grow competence by adding skills, frameworks, and experiences. But they grow “capacity” by unlearning, which involves changing prior scripts, such as the assumptions that speed, reassurance, and control are necessary when making complex leade...
CMOs can combat burnout by fostering meaning through belonging, purpose, storytelling, and transcendence. These strategies enhance well-being, resilience, and transform healthcare into a thriving community.
AI agents are transforming brand-consumer relationships. The authors explore how brands must adapt to a new retail environment in which consumers increasingly rely on generative AI for product research, recommendations, and purchases.
Hugo Huang discusses the challenges CEOs face when adopting generative AI, including unpredictable costs, infrastructure bottlenecks, workforce shifts, and ethical concerns. He emphasizes lifecycle planning, cost dashboards, and strategic implementat...
New research analyzing 280 million shifts across 20 retail chains shows that turnover depends on a mix of factors, including scheduling predictability, managerial flexibility, fairness, and local workforce conditions. By applying analytics to schedul...
Maternal mortality in the U.S. is rising, with Black women facing rates over three times higher than white women. This highlights systemic health failures and the need to prioritize maternal health as a core strategy. Healthcare leaders should focus ...
Primary care is under pressure as CMS expansions, Medicare Advantage requirements, and EMR demands overwhelm workflows, eroding trust, staff stability, and patient care. Redesign is vital for recovery.
Dr. Elyse Stevens, known for treating complex addiction cases, faced scrutiny for her flexible care approach, prioritizing patient-centered progress over abstinence. Her unconventional methods sparked debate about balancing harm reduction, liability,...
Mass General Brigham developed an 11-competency leadership model for physician leaders, offering a validated framework to enhance leadership, navigate healthcare challenges, and drive excellence nationwide.
This article highlights the decline in doctors' observational skills because of technology and explores ways to improve observation for better patient care.
Many senior leaders are quietly reaching the same conclusion: the top jobs they’ve spent decades working toward no longer feel sustainable. In recent years, the go-to advice for addressing executive burnout has been to encourage leaders to build grea...
This article defines courageous conversations in healthcare leadership, explores when to have them, and offers strategies, ground rules, and frameworks for effective dialogue.
As a senior leader, your strongest advantage in today’s job market isn’t your titles, decades of experience, or a specific metric of success. It’s how your adaptability has transformed how you lead.
As organizations today confront trust, engagement, and resilience challenges, leaders who have “experience intelligence” have a strategic advantage.
Many leaders believe the greatest risk in change is moving too slowly. That’s often true. For the times it’s not true, the greatest risk is moving before the organization is ready to move with you. A false start doesn’t just delay progress, it erodes...
Effective listening is essential in medicine, fostering trust, empathy, and better outcomes. Narrative medicine enhances patient-centered care and communication.
Calls, meetings, and negotiations dominate executives' workdays. Here are three tools to enhance outcomes and key skills like communication, management, innovation, and leadership.
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...
Healthcare Insights: Curated for HALM March/April 2026
Enterprise negotiations often falter not because the negotiators lack skill but because they’re constrained by two structural problems: agency and alignment. Frontline negotiators are typically incentivized to close deals (the agency problem) and are...
Physician leadership is key to healthcare quality. Boston Children’s Emerging Physicians Leadership Program (EPLP) trains mid-career physicians, fostering skills for leadership, collaboration, and operational improvement.
This study highlights how interprofessional education (IPE) boosts physician leadership by improving collaboration, communication, trust, and inclusive behaviors, enhancing team performance in healthcare.
Cross-functional teams in healthcare address complex challenges, but guidance for physician leaders is limited. This article offers practical insights for success.
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.
“Profiles in Success”: Certified Physician Executives Share the Value and ROI of their CPE Education
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.
Staying on top of cutting-edge research can give leaders and their companies an edge. This roundup, adapted from HBR’s March–April issue, provides insight into topics such as pursuing goals effectively, the real reason why companies need to be multip...