[This article first appeared in H&HN (Hospitals and Health Networks) Daily, January 24, 2012]

2012 and 2013 present a unique and compelling opportunity for health care executives to produce significant change. If we hope to be, as Buckminister Fuller said, “Architects of the future, not its victims,” we have to change the way we think in specific ways.

How do you learn to “Think Different” as Steve Jobs’ famous ads put it?

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Ten existential questions will make the difference between stumbling into the future and thriving

The questions have changed. The key strategy questions that the C-suite must be asking—and getting actionable answers to—are different now than they were in the past, even from what they were last year. Most of today’s health care CEOs and C-suite leaders are missing many of the key questions they need to ask to drive strategy now, this year, this budget, in order to survive the next three to seven years. Which ones are you missing?

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The Power in What We Most Fear

There is fire in the valley and smoke in the mountains. A plague is on the land and danger is afoot. That may be the good news. Health care is more unstable than it has been in living memory — but that instability may be its best asset in this moment, as the whole industry opens to profound change.

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Comparative effectiveness research kills?

Make a few assumptions, and the study is obviously correct: comparative effectiveness research kills. Without those assumptions, we have to wonder about the flim-flam.

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Why Cost-Cutting Doesn’t Cut Costs — And What Will

The Illusory Bottom Line: Why cost-cutting has never really worked, what will work, and what is already working.

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What about personal responsibility?

Why do we have to pay for taking care of people who don’t take care of themselves? What would the Founders do? What would Jesus do?

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The Future of Ambulatory Surgery Centers

The Future of Ambulatory Surgery Centers: The Next 10 Years

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Coordinating Care: It’s A Moral Question, But Not A Hard One

Coordinating care is the only way to lower costs and serve more people better. The time has come to stop trying to dodge the responsibility.

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How to Blow the Big One: A Methodology

Healthcare has, right now, the greatest opportunity we have seen in our lifetimes to make a big change, to rebuild itself in a hundred ways to become better for everyone, and cheaper—to get cheaper by getting better. Here’s how to screw it up.

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The Quest for the “Not for Comfort” Health Care Organization

The current reorganization of health care could make it better and cheaper for everyone—or it could lead to local monopolies, higher prices and less real competition where it matters.

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