Archive for 'Building on Success'
What the NFL Can Teach Us Physicians
For those of you who are not football fans and wondering what the NFL can teach us physicians, please bear with me. I grew up in Buffalo, NY, the son of a busy neurosurgeon whose passions were surgery, golf, and football. To spend time with my father, I took up golf and watched some of the first Bills’ games with him.
Here are three relevant themes for physicians in transition:
1) How a year begins may have little to do with the ..read more
Posted: February 11th, 2012 under Building on Success.
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The Inner Game: Review of Dr. Spencer Baron’s Secrets of the Game
A mindset that overcomes limiting beliefs, coupled with focused action in a few areas, is key to successful career transitioning for physician entrepreneurs.
Spencer Baron wrote in his recent book, Secrets of the Game, “A superstar athlete’s most powerful tool is his mind.” (p.49)
I had second thoughts about reviewing this book until I reached Chapter 4 “A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste.” It began with a quote from Jason Taylor, defensive end of the Miami Dolphins and Defensive Player ..read more
Posted: November 12th, 2010 under Building on Success.
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Leveraging Your Clinical Experience: Physician Consulting
I recently had the privilege of teaching at the SEAK course, How to Start, Build and Run a Physician Consulting Practice, which over 80 physicians attended. I was impressed with the energy in the room as we discussed how consulting offers physicians opportunities to leverage their knowledge wisdom and experience to analyze challenges that extend beyond individual physician-patient experiences. Consulting in physician-hospital relations has allowed me to work in 40 states with bright, usually pleasant people, helping them convert challenges into ..read more
Posted: November 4th, 2010 under Building on Success.
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Writing a Book to Build Your Brand
Introduction
I apologize for my intermittent posts. My wife and I are celebrating our empty nest by moving from Boston to the North Shore of Massachusetts, and I am finding it difficult to make time for all my previous activities. Please bear with me. Once I am more settled this fall, I promise to resume serving your needs.
In the meantime, I have partnered with my friend and expert in the field, Susan Kendrick, to bring you information on how you can develop ..read more
Posted: May 12th, 2010 under Building on Success.
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Five Steps to Becoming a Respected Thought Leader
The difference between obtaining a job after residency or fellowship and obtaining a job after being an attending physician is that the path is less clear after one has been in practice for several years. The process has an aura of amorality because nobody is telling you what to do. It reminds me of the “find me a rock” game where each time someone brings a rock, the receiver specifies additional features until the donor gives up in ..read more
Posted: January 25th, 2010 under Building on Success.
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Decluttering the New Year
“ I know where every piece of paper is located,” I told anyone who commented on the state of my office.
To paraphrase Judah Folkman, “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what is an empty desk a sign of ?”
I persisted in this myth for two years. I never made time to go through the piles, so the piles grew larger. I refused to see the downside, the time it took to find items and the feeling ..read more
Posted: January 9th, 2010 under Building on Success.
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White Paper Mastery: How to Get Interviewers to Want to Speak with You
A frustrating aspect of transitioning from a clinical position is that, unlike medical school and residency, the path is not clear. Applying for a job can be humbling, the first time that successful achievers feel that they have to grovel just to obtain an interview. That feeling hardly puts people into the can-do, self-confident mode that they need to stand out in a crowd.
A solution to this dilemma is to turn the tables and make the interviewer want to speak ..read more
Posted: November 11th, 2009 under Building on Success.
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