Leadership Reverie

Life is all about metaphors and personal stories. I wanted a place to collect random thoughts, musings, and stories about leadership in general and more specifically on leadership and management in health care.

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

You centralize so that you can decentralize...

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As I explained in a post a few years ago called "The bureaucracy paradox" , the American sociologist Charles Perrow famously wrot...

Sunday, September 14, 2025

U.S. high school reading and math scores at an all-time low

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There has been a lot of attention in the recent press on the recent report that U.S. high school seniors' reading and math scores have d...

Friday, September 12, 2025

The Luck Factor Part II

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Last time (see "The Luck Factor - Part I" ), I talked about Max Gunther's book, The Luck Factor . Today I want to review wh...

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

The Luck Factor Part I

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I've never been particularly superstitious. Even when I was younger, I never really had what some people would call a "good luck c...

Monday, September 8, 2025

Finding Joy

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My very first introduction to the author C.S. Lewis , like many others I suppose, was the book, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe . I r...

Saturday, September 6, 2025

The law of unintended consequences

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There's an old saying that I've mentioned a few times in previous posts (see, for example, "Past is prologue" ). I like W...

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Health care is the nation's top employer!

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The journalists Lydia DePillis and Christine Zhang wrote an article for The New York Times last month that I found very interesting ( ...

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