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Eric Norwood

San Diego, CA

Eric started this blog in January 2011 as a veteran healthcare executive who helps healthcare leaders navigate the transition from the Old to New World of Healthcare .

Interests: Healthcare Leaders and Leadership

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An Examined Life

"An unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates "The unexamined life is destined to repeat itself." Thomas a Kempis Every leader I coach wants to grow, improve and "make a difference." But few know how to escape the frenetic pace of busy-ness to realize that ambition, so life quickly slips... Continue reading

Posted Sep 16, 2017 at Living Well Journal

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Feb 5, 2016

Resilient Leaders Make Their Beds

"Today, sheltered from the hardships of hunger, disease, heat and cold that stalked human life for centuries, some people have lost their capacity to deal with real difficulty. Growing up in a protected palace of comfort, they have lost their ability to walk through pain." Former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens'... Continue reading

Posted Jan 2, 2016 at Living Well Journal

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Make It Your Policy To Say "No"

"It's easier to say NO when you have a much Bigger YES on the other side of your NO." Continue reading

Posted Dec 26, 2015 at Living Well Journal

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Physicians: Fishermen Playing Football

"Physicians are the Ultimate Fishermen." Continue reading

Posted Nov 4, 2015 at Living Well Journal

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Who Loves to Compromise?

That word - - Compromise - - often elicits an angry response. Some think it means sacrificing one's principles on the alter of expediency. In fact, compromise is a valuable way to resolve conflict, a fact of life in any relationship. What sets it apart is its ability to find... Continue reading

Posted Oct 21, 2015 at Living Well Journal

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To move through pain to wisdom, through fear to courage, through suffering to strength, requires resilience ... "the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge." Continue reading

Posted Apr 6, 2015 at Living Well Journal

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"Is There A Physician At The Table?"

The winners in The New World of Healthcare will emerge where executive and physician leaders come together as equal partners, and effective physician leaders will be a key to their success. Continue reading

Posted Dec 6, 2014 at Living Well Journal

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Clinically Integrated Healthcare Works

This is what the future must look like. Continue reading

Posted Nov 13, 2014 at Living Well Journal

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One Thing That Would Fix U.S. Healthcare

"No amount of delivery system reform can offset the impact of our declining health status as Americans." Continue reading

Posted Nov 7, 2014 at Living Well Journal

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Now is not the Time

What you will rarely encounter in our media’s iCloud of Unknowing is the past or a sense of tradition. Continue reading

Posted Nov 1, 2014 at Living Well Journal

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"Toyota is not Lean"

"There's just too much data available today to send it up to managers for every decision; doing so creates a bottleneck that slows the organization's ability to adapt and adjust to market changes." Continue reading

Posted Sep 26, 2014 at Living Well Journal

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Peter Drucker and Adaptive Design

"If only we would have listed to Peter Drucker back in 1967, our healthcare delivery system might look a lot different than it does today." Continue reading

Posted Sep 20, 2014 at Living Well Journal

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Uber in Healthcare?

"Legacy companies can't rely on regulation to protect them from competitive innovation." Kenneth Kaufman Anyone who has tried Uber instead of calling a taxi will appreciate this blog Untangling innovation, regulation and competition in healthcare Continue reading

Posted Aug 27, 2014 at Living Well Journal

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Saying "Yes" Means Saying "No"

It's easier to say No when I have a much bigger Yes on the other side of it. Continue reading

Posted Aug 24, 2014 at Living Well Journal

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The Dullest, Most Vital Skill Needed by Leaders

"To three highly effective and successful executives, a boring, often-overlooked ability is one of the most vital skills you can have as a manager — the ability to write." Continue reading

Posted Aug 21, 2014 at Living Well Journal

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Steve Jobs didn't disrupt, he adapted. So should healthcare.

"Adaptive Design is a path to innovation healthcare: Successful organization learn to do what they don't know how to do." Continue reading

Posted Aug 1, 2014 at Living Well Journal

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Look Down on Others

Why don't I compare myself to people who are worse off than I can? Continue reading

Posted Jul 31, 2014 at Living Well Journal

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Physician Leaders: The Key to Integration Success

"Without effective leadership - - particularly physician leadership - - the best clinical integration strategies will flounder and fail." Continue reading

Posted Jul 23, 2014 at Living Well Journal

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Who is Healthcare's Jeff Bezos? Hint: He's (or She's) Probably Not Reading This

Courage of one's convictions is among the rarest of characteristics among leaders in any industry. Harvard professor of change Clay Christensen's says that leaders of legacy organizations -- like hopsitals/health systems -- will not be the ones to disrupt it's own business model to adopt a new one. Yet the... Continue reading

Posted Jul 9, 2014 at Living Well Journal

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Built NOT to Last?

Jim Collins' book, Built to Last, has informed the thinking of leaders in healthcare for years. I like how my colleague, Blaine Bartlett, in his blog today, notes that "it implies solidity, endurance, longevity, and stability. So, how could this possibly be bad?" [Built NOT to Last?] Nothing in nature... Continue reading

Posted Jun 26, 2014 at Living Well Journal

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Reduce Your Stress in 2 Minutes A Day

"My life is like driving a dynamite truck 100 miles an hour, down a winding mountain road, with bad brakes!" Continue reading

Posted Dec 2, 2013 at Living Well Journal

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4 Sure Bets for Managing the Healthcare Transition

4 Sure Bets for healthcare executives for managing the transition from the Old to the New World of healthcare payment. Continue reading

Posted Oct 24, 2013 at Living Well Journal

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Distilling the Complexities of ACA

In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, the bumpy-start of the healthcare exchanges were explained by the sheer complexity of the Accountable Care Act itself. The authors cited a beautiful (and daunting) graphic that congressional staff created to illustrate how some 150 agencies, existing and new, form a... Continue reading

Posted Oct 21, 2013 at Living Well Journal

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5 Ways to Drive Innovation in Healthcare

How to make innovation a driving force in healthcare. Continue reading

Posted Sep 17, 2013 at Living Well Journal

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