Len Zwelling

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/health/patients-costs-skyrocket-specialists-incomes-soar.html?hp&_r=0 If you want to understand the lack of sympathy for doctors that so characterizes the health care reform debate, read this superb piece by Elisabeth Rosenthal from today’s NY Times. You think the government is out of control? So are we and the hospitals at which we work. Keep in mind, once you understand […]

Res-Hillience By Leonard Zwelling          Whether she runs for President or not, Hillary Clinton is surely the most significant female politician of the past 50, if not 100 years. But, she has had a bad week. The third week of the new year may go down as the week the 2016 Presidential election began because

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We’ll Cross That Bridge When We…oops! We’re There! By Leonard Zwelling          How many times have we seen this movie before?          Must I go through another session of disillusion with Chris Christie as the star in this reprise of “All the Governor’s Men”?  Here was a guy who I was sure would at least

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“Clean It Up” (A Life-Long Lesson in Leadership and Management) By Leonard Zwelling          I have just come from a two-day retreat with the Chiefs of the Service lines at Legacy Community Health, my new work home. As many of you know, Legacy is the largest federally qualified health clinic in Houston. In a real

What’s The Opposite of a Team of Rivals?: When FORDs Become Job One By Leonard Zwelling          Lincoln is considered by most one of the two greatest leaders to be president and the greatest to have occupied the White House given that Washington didn’t live there. Doris Kearns Goodwin has immortalized the term “a team

A Troubling Conversation By Leonard Zwelling          Recently I had a troubling conversation with an established and wise faculty member of long standing (that means he was over 50). This faculty member was telling me about two major struggles for clinical investigators at MD Anderson.          The first was E-Research which he described as an

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/is-your-boss-a-psychopath/ This was sent to me by a blog reader. Enjoy!  LZ

Hypocrisy at the Top By Leonard Zwelling          My favorite moment of my year on Capitol Hill is described in detail in the book I am writing about the experience. Here it is. “Because We Are Leaders” One of the greatest moments during my year on Capitol Hill was the late evening discussion of the