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For Physicians Venturing Into Leadership and Management

• Good Leaders Listen With Empathy

• How to Inspire Your Team

• Your Performance Review: How Did You Do?

• Handle Tense Situations the Nonviolent Way

• Get Results by Making Good Requests

• Good Leaders Ask Good Questions

•   Professionalism:  TEN common courtesies that count  

• Use Empowering Language to Take Personal Responsibility for Your Situation and Your Choices 

•   Knowing Yourself:  Your Key to Leadership

• Time-Energy Drain: How Does it Happen to You?

• Contemporary Thinking About Courage in Leadership

• Strategic Planning: The No Paper Method

• How Do You Know You're Ethical?

• The Qualities Followers Want to See in Leaders

• To Achieve Your Vision, Surround Yourself With Personal Champions

• A Leadership Dashboard for Clinical Practice Success

• Physician Leaders on the Front Line: Valerie Moore, MD MBA ~ Using Business Concepts to Engage Physicians

• What Hinders Your Vision?  10 Obstacles to Overcome

• Just Because You're a Doctor, Doesn't Mean You're Professional

• Ten Ideas for Physicians Who Want to Transform Healthcare

• Why Transformation Efforts Fail:  8 Errors to Avoid

• Leaders Transform Healthcare Using Emotional Intelligence

• Balance Intensity with Levity:  Polar Plunging and the Wisdom of Einstein

• Reflections on Hope for Healthcare:  Leaders Create From Chaos

• Let the Power of Myth Inspire Your Professional Journey

• Want to be a leader?  Get Results!

• Effective Leadership Communication:  Take the Reflection Challenge

• Positive versus negative vision:  Which one is your leadership platform?

• To communicate effectively, use the "whole brain"

• Do you Embody the Four Strategies of a Proven Leader?

• Leaders Create Dialogue for Problem Solving

• Transformation, Courage and Leadership:  At the core is Free Will

• Leaders, Make Your Presence Known:  Don’t Be Boring  

• Principled Negotiation:  A Method for Win-Win 

• Writing for Clarity and Significance:  Keep it clean, Keep it short

• Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?  

• Four Popular Myths About Leadership

• Speak Like a Superstar:  Hone Your Skills and Be Authentic

• Leadership and Transformation Require a Taste for Complexity 

• The Power of “And” 

•   Physician Leaders Use  Emotional Intelligence

• Using Intuition in Leadership

For Physicians Planning Career Change or Entrepreneur Transition

•   Physician, Tap Into Your Career Potential

• Thinking of Making a Career Transition?  What's Your Value Proposition to a New Employer?

• Leverage Your Experiences Into Transferable Skills - Parts I, II, II   

• What is Your Highest Goal?

• Are You Doing What You Love?

• Is it Time for You to Take a Sabbatical?

• How to Represent (Sell) Yourself Well, Part I

• Professional Transition: Consider the Three Dimensions of Career Fulfillment

•   What is Your Value-Add as a Business Consultant?

• How to Make a Good 30-minute Presentation

• Marketing Your Business? Look like you want to succeed

• To MBA or NOT to MBA, that is the question 

• Do You Need an MBA? What do you learn in business school anyway?

• The Number One Secret to Getting What You Want:  Tasteful Asking

• 7 Habits of Highly Effective E-Mail Communicators

• Effective Networking:  Make Soul Calls, Not Cold Calls

• Discovering Your Professional Path Through Your Archetype:  Shaman, Warrior, Artist, Chief, Nurturer, Mystic?

• Position Your Services for Strategic Advantage

• Cracking the Code to Your Career

• Is there a Science to Change?

• Creating Work-Life Balance, Part II:  Eliminating Clutter

• Eliminating Clutter:  The Sequel

• Creating Work-Life Balance, Part I:  Establishing Boundaries

• Write Your Way to a New Career  

• Listen to Your Heart, Not Your Head, When Deciding Your Path

• Professional and Career Stability:  What does it mean to you? 

• Explore new fields by attending specialty conferences  

• Transition:  If it’s not scary, you’re not stretching enough!    

• Why Care About Values, Passion and Purpose?  Ask the Samurai   

• Let Your Business Card Declare Your Intention; and Be Nitpicky

• Some Tips for Residents Contemplating New Directions 

• Career Transition as a "Soul Journey" 

• What is My Unique Talent Anyway? An Exercise to Try

• Career Transition: Be a Solution to a Business Problem 

• Want to Change Careers? Take Time to “I  A M”

• The Science of Happiness

• Is it Even Possible to Find Happiness As a Physician Today?

• Thinking About Becoming an Entrepreneur? 6 Keys to Success

• Business Planning Basics:  Don't Forget Your Market!

• Forty-one ideas for what you can do as a healthcare consultant

• The Business Plan Executive Summary:  Keep is Simple

• Expand Your Universe by Using News Services   

• Business Planning:  Track Your Assumptions

•   Entrepreneurs, What's Your Elevator Pitch?

• The Thumbnail Business Plan