In the world of innovation, disruption is a term that is often used liberally. But what does it truly mean to disrupt? In essence, disruption signifies a profound shift — a change that significantly reshapes an existing market or industry, or perhaps...

The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the consequences of choice overload in healthcare, and to help both practitioners and patients to avoid decision paralysis.

This article reviews the leadership lessons related to crisis management. A 402-bed licensed Level I academic trauma hospital was given eight hours notice to prepare to receive a patient under investigation for Ebola virus disease.

Like many professionals, the author put her career on a different path than she had originally envisioned. She encourages young professionals to start their careers with enthusiasm and flexibility, take advantage of opportunities — even those that in...

If your front-line staff members understand your most important goals and values, they can represent you, the physician, much more effectively (and accurately).

Your attention determines the experiences you have, and the experiences you have determine the life you live. Rather than allowing distractions to derail you, choose where you direct your attention at any given moment, based on an understanding of yo...

Up close and personal with AAPL Board Members.

One of the keys to being a successful chief medical officer is engaging your medical staff.

The inflated ego that comes with success – the bigger salary, the nicer office, the easy laughs – often makes us feel as if we’ve found the eternal answer to being a leader. But the reality is, we haven’t. An inflated ego makes us susceptible to mani...

The final day of the AAPL Fall Institute saw the wrap up of several two-day courses as well as highly relevant topics to the modern physician leader.

Day three of the AAPL Fall Institute began with wellness activities, and a new round of courses including, what else, physician wellness.

Day two of the AAPL Fall Institute in Scottsdale, Arizona, began with a challenge: What is one thing that you will change?