Who is Successful and Why?
In her extensive research, psychologist Angela Lee Duckworth found that more than IQ or talent or any other factor, the #1 predictor of a person’s success is their unwavering commitment to a long-term goal... in other words, their grit. (Watch Angela's TED Talk and...
Your Emotional Intelligence Determines Your Team’s Success
Intelligent, dedicated physicians are frustrated with getting results to improve both patient care and financial outcomes. Nevertheless, physicians who feel better about themselves and their results are alike in one crucial way: They use their emotional intelligence....
Ensuring a Good Life
In a practice filled by daily activities with colleagues, staff, and patients, women physicians often feel isolated emotionally. “A 24/7 career gets in the way of making personal connections.” Women physicians succumb to a masquerade as strong and independent, even...
Change Never Starts Because It Never Stops
Transforming Healthcare: What It Takes To Be “Fresh” In 2016 Which would you rather drink: water from a river or a puddle? When seeking a natural source of water, we are taught to drink from moving water, as it remains fresh. Shifts of weather and influences of other...
Succeeding in the Face of Resistance
At the request of her staff, Dr. Sara Teal, medical director, negotiated change in her work schedule. After making the case and getting approval from administration, she shared the good news with staff, only to be met with resistance. Frustrated and confused, she...
Using Your Power to Get Desired Results
Power is the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events. Lord Emerich Edward Dalberg Action (1834-1902) thought, “All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Nevertheless, power can be directed for...
How to Stimulate Change
Are people inherently resistant to change? If so, we would not go to school, change jobs, date, or have children. We not only don’t resist change, but also devote a lot of time and energy initiating change. Every waking hour, we are engaged in change - our survival...
How to Use Your Power to Get the Results You Really Want
Using Your Power to Get Desired Results Power is the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events. Lord Emerich Edward Dalberg Action (1834-1902) thought, “All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”...
Female Physicians Speak Out
According to research by the international, non-profit organization, Catalyst, Fortune 500 companies with more than three female physicians on their Board of Directors achieved superior sales and higher return on equity and net profits. Although women are beginning to...
Who is the Modern Physician?
Healthcare and the practice of medicine are changing dramatically on multiple fronts. Discussion of these challenges was a focus of physicians and other thought-leaders gathered in Las Vegas for the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Physician...
Feelings Reveal Your Desires
Change Is Happening Are you experiencing a change, or know you need to change, but feel conflicted? When my husband interviewed for an out-of state job, my immediate responses were confusion and fear. How will we stay emotionally connected? Am I willing to move? Are...
Change Your Story, Change Your Life
Key challenges to physicians include low reimbursement, loss of autonomy, and patient overload. As these issues are unlikely to change any time soon, there is high dissatisfaction among physicians. However, the way we process issues can change today. We all have...
“When women lead in healthcare,
everyone wins!”
- Deborah Munhoz