タグ: entrepreneurship

Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of all the entrepreneurial cheerleaders and hoopla. The message is that if you only have perseverance and grit, you can be successful. If you can just walk across some coals, the brass ring is almost in hand. You can achieve anything if you put your mind to it! Instead, for physician entrepreneurs, there is a lot to be said for the power of negative thinking and the ability to say no: It is just easier to get rid of stuff and toxic people than create new positive habits. Acting on no is a lot easier than acting on… もっと読む »

Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA The newly elected members of Congress don’t have to worry about working in an open space office environment. Instead, they cross their fingers and hope they get an office with a view. Those who are not running for reelection or lame ducks sit in cubes until the new sesion starts. Likewise, most employed physicians, including academic physicians, savor their private offices and want to be able to hang all those diplomas, awards and patent plaques on their vanity walls. Of course, the chairperson usually gets the best spot with more space to display all those memorabilia from foreign speaking engagements while you are at home racking up RVUs…. もっと読む »