Len Zwelling

The MD Anderson Annual Report: A Confusing Document By Leonard Zwelling It arrived on little cat’s feet in our mailbox. It’s a white booklet with no picture on the front at all. There’s a big 75 in pastel hues on the cover indicating the age of the hospital and inside there are lists. There is […]

Changing Your Mind: A Thoughtful Strategy By Leonard Zwelling Decision-making is probably the single most important characteristic on which a leader is judged. While consistency of purpose is surely a positive aspect of a leader’s strategy, so is the much rarer trait of nimbleness. Can a leader change course when that change is beneficial and

The Cost of Costs: Increasing Revenue Streams Is Unlikely To Fill MD Anderson’s Financial Hole By Leonard Zwelling Every household has a budget. When that budget slips into the red, one of two strategies must be invoked. Either the revenue stream must be augmented or the costs contained. It is no different for MD Anderson.

Tactic Or Strategy: Missiles Into Syria, DePinho Out Of Office By Leonard Zwelling Any dramatic decision by a leader is immediately scrutinized for its meaning. This is certainly the case with President Trump’s latest foreign policy actions in which he sent 59 missiles into the Syrian air base from which a sarin gas attack on

What The Trump Family Could Learn From The MD Anderson Faculty By Leonard Zwelling While there are always exceptions to the rule, it is a reasonable axiom that experience counts in leadership and that ethical behavior derives from an internal sense of right and wrong. The team still being assembled in the White House is

What Admiral McRaven Could Learn From President Trump By Leonard Zwelling Readers of this blog know that I am no fan of Donald Trump. That being said, his decision to send cruise missiles into a Syrian air base from which raids were putatively launched that resulted in the use of Sarin gas on Syrian citizens

What Is It About Insurance That Congress Doesn’t Get? By Leonard Zwelling, MD, MBA http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/04/news/economy/obamacare-freedom-caucus-pre-existing-conditions/index.html What is the purpose of insurance—any insurance? Quite simply it is the vehicle by which risk of bad things happening to individuals or businesses is distributed over a large population of individuals or businesses. Everyone in the population pays into

Will The Next President Of MD Anderson Govern With Populism Or Democracy?: It’s A Necessary Choice By Leonard Zwelling The article referenced above delineates the difference between populism and democracy. One can tend to end in autocracy. The other will preserve “the consent of the governed.” In Venezuela today, what began as a populist movement

It’s Time For An Independent Investigation: In Washington And In Houston By Leonard Zwelling Despite President Trump’s multiple attempts to change the subject, Washington is fixated on determining the extent to which the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians in trying to undermine the Clinton team during the race for the White House. Did anyone

The Cost Of Making A Mess: Ron’s Golden Parachute By Leonard Zwelling https://www.utsystem.edu/sites/utsfiles/offices/board-of-regents/board-meetings/agenda-book-full/3-28-2017ab.pdf This link is to the agenda and notes of the meeting of the Board of Regents of the UT System from March 28, 2017. Scroll down and you will see a letter included from Executive Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Greenberg to