Category: Leadership & Management

The perfect CEO personality? No such thing

CEO personality is correlated to company culture, but what works for one organization may not serve another, defying the notion of a universal chief executive archetype.

The 85% rule

Eighty-five percent is the new 100 percent, or so a number of business and work-life leaders posit, marking a shift that carries extra meaning in an industry with perfectionist tendencies like healthcare. 

From CEO to CNO: 5 Qs with Oschner's new chief nursing officer

Tiffany Murdock, DNP, MSN, has a well-rounded background in healthcare, starting her career as a nurse tech. In the nearly 20 years since, she’s served in numerous leadership roles, including as the first female CEO of Singing River Health System in Oc…

Rural healthcare is hard and you have to commit, WVU Medicine CEO says

West Virginia may have one of the least healthy populations in the U.S., and there has to be much more focus on preventive health initiatives as a result, Albert Wright, CEO of Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine, told Becker’s in a recent interview.

Sanford Health's CEO eyes growth

Bill Gassen, president and CEO of Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health, sees a bright future for the health system despite a recently halted merger with Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services.

Health systems center clinicians in the C-suite

When looking to fill top leadership posts, more health systems are turning to nurses and physicians. 

How Mayo Clinic trains administrators, 40 years and counting

Mayo Clinic has been training future healthcare leaders through its administrative fellowship program since 1983. Over the past four decades, less has changed than one might think. 

How Mayo Clinic trains administrators, 40 years and counting

Mayo Clinic has been training future healthcare leaders through its administrative fellowship program since 1983. Over the past four decades, less has changed than one might think. 

Healthcare re-imagined by CEOs

Healthcare experienced a seismic shift in the last few years, enduring the COVID-19 pandemic, workforce shortages, inflation and rapid technological advancement. Hospitals and health systems can’t operate the way they did for decades and stay financial…

One-third of HHS appointees hop to industry jobs, raising conflict-of-interest concerns

One-third of HHS appointees between 2004 and 2020 left for jobs in the industry, according to the first comprehensive study of the “revolving door” in healthcare regulation in Health Affairs.