Culture and Quality Part I

For many candidates and employers/managers the question of "Where do you want to be in 5 years?" is a common one ask and responded to in interviews and performance reviews. In the work that we are doing to reform/transform healthcare, the idea of where we want/need/have to be in 5 years has been often coupled with the angst people feel about where we are and the past 5-10, 20+ years that has gotten us to where we are today.

I need not rehash the myriad dynamics that face us today. What I want to point out however, for us with a desire to create consistent and sustainable excellence in healthcare, is that we couldn't be in a better position to create something truly transformational. The question here is: Where do we need to go?

Why is the window of opportunity for transformation in healthcare wider now than we may have ever seen before? There are multiple reasons, I will name just a few: more