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This is our 5^th installment of the 6 fundamentals of every great organization system. 
Please read our prior blogs on the other 4 Fundamentals we have covered thus far:

• Calendar
• Task List
• Intake System
• Reference System
  

Topics: Organization System, Contacts

What the heck is a Carve-in?
It is the opposite of what Hospice providers have enjoyed for the past many years - the Carve-out! Currently, Medicare beneficiaries who have Medicare Advantage (MA) Plans revert to traditional Medicare when they elect the Medicare Hospice benefit - thus, they are “carved out” of MA plans.

Topics: Carve-In, Traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage

We will take a break this week from the Fundamentals of Every Great Organization System and resume the series next week.

Topics: Work-Life, Balance, Rhythms of Life

A commitment to “lifelong learning” has often been touted as a critical attribute of both great leaders and followers.  Lately, I have begun to wonder if even the term “lifelong learning” has become something of a cliché and a self-descriptive often overused without full appreciation of the degree of personal and self-mastery required to keep that commitment.

Topics: Lifelong Learning, Vertical Development, VUCA World, Horizontal Development

Years ago, John Maxwell developed leadership lessons which he distributed via CDs. One of the lessons he taught, which I have never forgotten, is about how important it is that every leader has an organization system. In that lesson, he went on to say that the average executive spends 10 years of his life “looking for stuff”.

Topics: Leadership Systems, Intake System, Reference System, Organization

Mrs. H. was surprised with her diagnosis of breast cancer that had spread to bone. Her oncologist recommended chemotherapy and she tried it. She hated the toxins going through her system. She didn’t tolerate the chemotherapy very well anyway.

Topics: Serious Illness, Palliative Care

We are in a blog series for what I call the 6 Fundamentals of every great organization system. Our last blog focused on the second fundamental of every great organization system: the task list. In this post we will discuss the third fundamental of every great organization system: The Intake System.

Topics: Leadership Systems, Intake System, 6 Fundamentals, Organization System

Low ROI, frustration, and an increased employee turnover rate are all not just common symptoms of a dysfunctional organization, they are also possible results from implementing a poor leadership system. A recent study from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) highlighted the missing piece to most organizations sustainable growth and improvement. And, much to most CEO's surprise, it has nothing to do with a fancy online tool, a new way to motivate through incentives, or enforcing stricter policies. It turns out, you just need to rethink your current leadership structure.

Topics: High Performance, Leadership Systems, Sustainable Growth

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself." ― Leonardo da Vinci

With the popular notion of “servant leadership” floating abroad the reaches of the internet, it isn’t a surprise that most leaders are taken aback by the notion of focusing on themselves. 

Topics: Leadership, Self-Mastery

Our current blog series focuses on what I refer to as: “The 6 fundamentals needed for a great organization system.” The last blog focused on the first fundamental of every great organization system: the calendar. In today’s post, we will focus on the second fundamental: the task list.

Topics: Leadership, Business Tools, Task List, Organization