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Experience breeds intuition when it comes to healthcare executive recruiting. Does it work for horse racing too? I will not attempt to prove whether experience improves your outcome at the track. However, healthcare venture capitalists often use horse racing analogies when discussing ideal investments.

There is an unwritten rule of sorts that suggests a new leader should just figure out what needs to get done and do it. In many ways it is a baptism by fire...survival of the fittest. In our present and future healthcare climate there is no room for Darwinism. Everything should be done to ensure success because leadership failures affect everybody.

As a professional healthcare executive recruiter, my experience in completing more than 225 healthcare executive search assignments for high-growth companies provides a somewhat differentiated viewpoint on many relevant issues. Hopefully, this viewpoint will benefit your company's internal discussions as you develop your strategies to embrace the new healthcare interoperability and data exchange opportunity.

Reduction in reimbursements increased spending to support infrastructure, increased costs of Healthcare Human Capital and benefit expense, etc. The rate of Healthcare change is not going to slow down; competition will only increase at a more rapid pace; and the exponential "X" factor of the enormous demand brought on by the baby boom generation will create the largest healthcare human capital shortage of our lifetime.

By many measures, the stakes for hospitals are high. Hospitals who cast leadership development and executive succession planning will be better positioned for risk management success, increased profitability and shareholder value and operational continuity in the 21st century healthcare environment
You must be willing to ask yourself what part your attitude, words or behaviors play in interactions. When I was asked to help the Board of a major healthcare organization improve the quality and effectiveness of their meetings and planning sessions, I observed Board members' discussions, breakout groups and activities during recesses and social activities.

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