Author: Michael
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Managers & Leaders: Are They Different?
Abraham Zaleznik, a clinical psychoanalyst by training, asked that question in a 1977 article in Harvard Business Review. Zaleznik believed the difference was the view of chaos versus order held by the manager or leader. Managers believe in process, stability, and control, and seek to resolve problems quickly. Leaders tolerate chaos and delay problem solving Read more
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Do you always have constitutional rights? Effects of state action on private universities and hospitals
I’ve been interested in the public v. private and not-for-profit v. for-profit differences since working at Humana in the early 1980’s and New England Journal of Medicine editor Arnold Relman described the for-profit industry as the medico-industrial complex arguing that the profit motive endangers the physician-patient relationship. In the 1987 Harvard Business Review, Herzlinger and Read more
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History of Medicaid
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Sometimes your passion finds you…
During my last semester in the classroom after 38 years of college teaching, I wore a black bracelet every day. It said “Because I said I would”. I wore it as a constant reminder to work as hard in my last semester as I had in my first semester back in 1986. I had witnessed Read more