Followership is a vital aspect of leadership, emphasizing active engagement, critical thinking, and shared vision. Strong leader-follower partnerships rely on trust, respect, communication, and adaptability.
This article explores physician leadership's evolving role and suggests strategies to enhance effectiveness, including role clarity, structured meetings, and self-leadership, to improve well-being and reduce burnout.
This study explored whether Flourishing Questions from The Human Flourishing Program align with Healthy Days, a population health measure. Using survey data, it found moderately negative but significant correlations, suggesting both measures assess s...
Micromanagement isn’t inherently bad; it can be strategic, sporadic, or chronic. Effective micromanagers balance transparency, timing, tone, and team trust.
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...
Generative AI agents can reason, plan, and take actions across enterprise systems, which means deploying them is not just a software installation but a change to how work gets done. When agents gain the ability to execute tasks—updating records, issu...
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...
This study explored whether Flourishing Questions from The Human Flourishing Program align with Healthy Days, a population health measure. Using survey data, it found moderately negative but significant correlations, suggesting both measures assess s...
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.
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 ...
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...
Followership is a vital aspect of leadership, emphasizing active engagement, critical thinking, and shared vision. Strong leader-follower partnerships rely on trust, respect, communication, and adaptability.
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.
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...
This article explores physician leadership's evolving role and suggests strategies to enhance effectiveness, including role clarity, structured meetings, and self-leadership, to improve well-being and reduce burnout.
Insecure leaders—whether anxious or avoidant—are more common in organizations than most people acknowledge. Their behaviors can distort communication, undermine collaboration, and burden teams.
This study highlights how interprofessional education (IPE) boosts physician leadership by improving collaboration, communication, trust, and inclusive behaviors, enhancing team performance in healthcare.
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...