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Challenges of Youth
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Boards can play a key role in guiding, supporting young health system leaders
Clarifying Expectations: A First Step in Developing Truly Effective Relationships Between CEOs and Trustees
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This is the second in a series of collaborative leadership tools for CEOs. The first one presented a new model of collaborative leadership.This one focuses on clarifying trustees’ and CEOs’ expectations of each other. It
includes a simple exercise for helping trustees and CEOs refine the way they work together.
Collaborative Leadership: A New Model for Developing Truly Effective Relationships Between CEOs and Trustees
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Collaborative Leadership: A New Model For Developing Truly Effective Relationships Between CEOs and Trustees is the first in a series of tools developed specifically for you, the hospital or health system CEO, to help you take the lead in dealing with this change in ways that will stabilize and strengthen relationships with your board.
Succession Planning: The Board-CEO Partnership
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Boards and CEOs must constructively address the succession imperative. Succession planning for the CEO and other senior leadership positions is critical to organizational continuity and stability, especially in a transforming healthcare field.
Someone to Lean On
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Health care CEOs may need a little help. How about hiring a chief of staff?
The CEO Performance Appraisal
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The uncertainty and complexity of today’s rapidly transforming health care environment requires dynamic CEO leadership more than ever. A sound and steady relationship between the board and CEO helps support the CEO during this turbulent time and, in turn, a close and productive partnership between the board and CEO helps ensure the board’s vision and strategic direction are carried out.
Linking Incentives to Risk
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By Steven T. Sullivan
As health care transforms, boards are tying executive compensation to long-term performance
Revisiting Executive Incentive Compensation: A New Challenge
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Incentive compensation plans are intended to focus executives’ attention on their organizations’ most vital priorities and initiatives. As health care organizations revise their business strategies to address the ongoing transformation of care delivery and payment, health care boards also need to reassess the structure and measures of performance in their executive incentive compensation plans.
Asset Stewardship and the Board's 3 for Understanding and Improving Operational Efficiency
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Asset stewardship has long been a key board responsibility. As fiduciaries of a health care organization’s assets, governing boards are required to act in the best interest of the organization, ensuring that resources are used in a reasonable, appropriate and legally accountable way to meet community health care needs.
Board Legal Fiduciary Duties
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All state statutory and case law holds that directors of nonprofit, 501(c)(3), corporations must serve as stakeholder (owner) agents, acting in ways that protect and advance their interests. Legalities aside, this is the foundation of great governance. In order to fulfill this obligation, directors must discharge three legal fiduciary duties: loyalty, care and obedience.