Not Running a Hospital

This is a blog by a former CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about negotiation theory and practice, leadership training and mentoring, and teaching.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Shutting down social media? Not here.

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The following email message was broadcast last week in a Boston hospital. Of course, you can guess my view of this: Any form of communicati...
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Monday, October 12, 2009

On the day of judgment . . .

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We've just returned from a jaunt to Italy's Amalfi Coast, a celebration with friends of one of those special birthdays of my wife. ...
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"Ground level"

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To briefly continue the travelogue from above , consider the hillside construction of the towns along the Amalfi Coast. One of the natives ...
Thursday, October 08, 2009

Happy Columbus Day!

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Short break for a long weekend. See you soon.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Kaizen Corner -- standardized work

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A late September edition of Mark Zeidel's weekly tutorial on Lean process improvement. See this pig exercise for a great example of ...
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Kaizen Corner -- Visual Systems

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Mark Zeidel's Kaizen course continues: We resume this week with a discussion of Visual Systems. In the effective work place, things are...
Monday, October 05, 2009

Kaizen Corner -- for lack of a battery

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Mark Zeidel's commentary continued in late August with actual application of Lean principles. As we move into our efforts to enhance th...
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Saturday, October 03, 2009

Crystal Lake at dawn

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Taken with my 1.3 MP Motorola cell phone on a walk a couple of days ago.
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Friday, October 02, 2009

Kaizen Corner -- Inaugural edition

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Our chief of medicine, Mark Zeidel , was one of our senior management group who took a course in Lean process improvement philosophy and tec...
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Thursday, October 01, 2009

Can you help me find these people?

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This is a personal item, but I am asking help from those of you in the social media world. Curt Bakal , chief of radiology at Lahey Clinic,...
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Happy 40th! HCHP->Atrius

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Congratulations to Atrius Health , the successor organization, on the occasion of the anniversary of the creation of Harvard Community Healt...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Immigrants left in the lurch again

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Kay Lazar in the Boston Globe tells a sad story . Several weeks ago, Governor Patrick and his administration pushed through a plan to help ...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Prostate teams

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I had dinner tonight with a grateful prostate cancer patient who was able to take advantage of our Cyberknife to receive targeted radiation...
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Too risqué for a hospital?

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Seen at our hospital. No further comment.
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Hollywood stands up for health care victims

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Although I disagree with the policy argument, you have to appreciate the cleverness of this video .
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Monday, September 28, 2009

Whose woods these are

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When you walk through New England woods, you often come across stone walls. They are a reminder that the region is more forested now than ...
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Hub on Wheels 2009

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The BIDMC team again joined in the Hub on Wheels , a bike ride through the neighborhoods that is a fundraiser for the Boston public schools...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

SNMA @ BIDMC

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We were so pleased that the Student National Medical Association decided to hold its Board of Directors meeting and National Leadership Ins...
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More from SNMA

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Some more photos from the SNMA session mentioned above . These were taken by Dr. Rafael Campo.

Signature collection grows

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I have previously written about the email signatures used by some of the girls on the soccer team I coach. Here is another one, from a pla...
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Paul Levy
Negotiation advisor, author, speaker; former hospital CEO, regional water and wastewater system CEO, and public utilities regulator. But above all, coach.
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