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Innosphere Announces New Relationship with ValidCare

06 Friday Nov 2015

Posted by Black Diamond Transformation in Bundled Payments, CCJR, Convergence, Digital HIT, Leadership, Patient Reported Outcomes, Physician Alignment, Transparency

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BPCI, CCJR, CMS Innovation, Convegence, Digital Health, Patient Experience, Patient Reported Outcomes

Innosphere announced its selection of eightScreenHunter_60 Nov. 06 13.36 new client technology organizations from its pool of 32 applying companies. Those selected, are introduced into Innosphere’s incubation program and now immersing in the onboarding and exclusive training sessions. Innosphere client companies receive customized development plans, are introduced to other founders, and granted access to experienced advisors. Innosphere clients receive ongoing support and networking to raise appropriate levels of capital and obtain resources to exponentially grow. One of Innosphere’s most recent introductions to its program is ValidCare.

ValidCare is developing a Patient Reported Outcomes network of Hospital, Surgery Center, and Physician Group participants committed to working together across the surgical episode to better manage the Health of our communities. Their aim is to simplify, clarify, and transform the patient experience in Orthopedics and Spine. They enable delivery of the highest quality outcomes at the lowest total cost – one patient at time.

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Accountability: Building Engaged and Informed Teams

12 Thursday Feb 2015

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Accountability, Business Transformation, Change Management, Engaged Teams, Execution Culture, Informed Teams, Positive Thinking, Rewards, Transforming Accountability

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Many organizations struggling with major initiatives look for better means to manage performance. Oversimplification of problems or underestimation of the barriers to change (even the readiness of organizations to absorb change) impedes progress. Executives sponsoring key initiatives, particularly enterprise wide and multi-generational, should seek to understand how its organization executes – what it does and does not do well – and effectively empower change agents and influencers to deliver results.

Wishing Doesn’t Make it So
The dilemma Managers face in making individuals and organizations accountable for success is in integrating the impact of initiatives to individuals, their teams and the organization. Too often, Senior Leadership absolves itself of responsibility for execution and creates an arbitrary systems of penalties without recognition. This trait hallmarks organizations focused on excuse rather than execution. Timely decisions on critical issues, proper resourcing, problem definition and setting realistic expectations are within the domain of Senior Leadership; communication, expectation management and execution are the responsibility of Managers and their Teams. Each needs the other. The skill is in managing initiatives and relationships – both – for the good of the organization. Continue reading →

Without Complete Understanding

08 Thursday Jan 2015

Posted by Black Diamond Transformation in Leadership

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Blessed Virgin Mary, Faith, feast of the assumption, Hope, loss of a loved one, norman maclean, Suffering, Suicide

Angel of Grief - Stanford University

This morning, I read of a death of a young Marine to suicide. It reminded me of a post written sometime ago. Revisiting it here for the purposes of bringing light to the terrible loss to mental illness and suffering. From August 15, 2011.

I read a very poignant post this evening about the loss of a loved one to suicide. It rekindled memories of friends whose terrible decisions left such awful darkness in trade. How awful a curse to be so bereft of hope that death is comparative comfort.

Interestingly, today is the Feast of the Assumption; a holy day of obligation that Roman Catholics herald as a victory of life over death when the Blessed Virgin Mary was assumed – body and soul – into Heaven. Suicide is the refutation of that very promise. A loss to suicide is as baffling as it is devastating.

For those of Faith, please pray for those suffering from mental illness. Pray for those groaning under the yoke of despair in recovering from a loss. Pray that it doesn’t come home to you.

For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don’t know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them; we can love completely without complete understanding. — Norman Maclean

From the Boardroom to the Battlefield — Only the Paranoid Survive

04 Tuesday Nov 2014

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Andy Grove, Crisis, Disruption, Four Basic Principles of Leadership, Hal Moore, Innovation, Only the Paranoid Survive, Transformation

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Andy Grove of Intel fame provides a fascinating read on the effects and potential advantages of technological disruption. Following is the preface to Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company. Grove speaks to the importance of understanding inflection points and how great organizations exploit crises to advance their own objectives.

Grove’s lasting question to Management is timeless: what would you do differently if you replaced yourself tomorrow? Though dated (1996), the learning lessons remain relevant in developing an understanding of the impact of shifting boundaries and the importance of plotting a course through dark waters. As a leader, crucial to survival is an awareness to evolving market dynamics and seismic technological shifts. It permits a foundation from which to effectively react to conditions not of your making.

A corollary to Grove’s effort is Hal Moore’s Four Basic Principles of Leadership as an execution paradigm in reacting to disruptions and competitive forces. Though Colonel Moore was speaking to battlefield realities and his own experience in the Ia Drang Valley, its application to industry and business is complete.

As you consider what ails (and assails) your organization, consider the lessons of Grove and Moore. From the boardroom to the battlefield, learn to exploit the unexpected to your advantage.

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Ethics in Leadership: Virtue as a Competitive Advantage

30 Sunday Aug 2009

Posted by Black Diamond Transformation in Agility, Inspiration, Leadership, Transformation, Transparency

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Aristotle, Ethics, Happiness, Nicomachean, Prudence, Virtue

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Virtue as a Competitive AdvantageAristotle
Though dead for nearly 2,400 years, Aristotle remains relevant primarily because of his defining principles in terms of the ethics of leadership and personal choice. Within Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle concludes that the primary role of leadership is creation of an environment in which all members of an organization are provided the opportunity to realize individual potential. Thus, the ethical role of the leader is not to consolidate power, but rather to create an environment where followers may realize the full potential of their unique gifts and abilities. The role, then, of the individual is to employ personal choice in individual interactions arriving at some end we individually consider good for personal growth and collectively so in contribution to organizational performance. This is accomplished through a value system where living “virtuously” determines whether we achieve excellence or mediocrity. Continue reading →

Crossing the Rubicon: Building High-Performance Teams

02 Sunday Aug 2009

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Business Transformation, Caesar, Change Management, Discipline, Rubicon

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Attributes of High-Performance Teams
If discipline is the crucible wherein excellence is derived, then passion is the catalyst for that transformation. Passion and discipline are key attributes of any high-performance team. Passion overcomes long odds and obstacles.  Passion differentiates; it endures. It remains a tremendously powerful equalizer, particularly if fear of not trying overwhelms fear of failure. But how to instill this in teams or organizations struggling with mediocrity? What implications exist for Leaders whose Teams now drown in sub-average performance or expend valuable resources in a seemingly vain attempt to stay afloat? Continue reading →

Mental Attitude

11 Saturday Jul 2009

Posted by Black Diamond Transformation in Inspiration, Leadership, Simplicity, Transformation

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Harmony, Individualism, Perseverance, Self Actualization, Transformation

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The Secret of Obtaining Wealth: Service to OthersHubbard
A friend recently read the posting “1899: A Message to Garcia” and afterward suggested I return to the writings of Elbert Hubbard for his treatment on the importance of mental attitude in performance and personal transformation. An imperfect man himself, Hubbard wrote extensively on issues of self-determination and pursuit of excellence. Hubbard believed that fear was eradicated by the employment of one’s intelligence in the relentless pursuit of truth. By doing so, he reasoned one would obtain greater strength and personal satisfaction ultimately yielding true wealth through service to others. A humbling ideal and remarkable legacy for others pursuing transformation to assume.

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1899: A Message to Garcia

18 Monday May 2009

Posted by Black Diamond Transformation in Inspiration, Leadership, Transformation

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Endurance, Level 5 Leadership, Transformation

Rowan and General Garcia

A.S. Rowan (center) & General Garcia (right)

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Following, you will find a post written in 1899 by Elbert Hubbard. It speaks to the importance of self-motivation and ingenuity as differentiators. United States Marine Corps recruits find this provided to them at depots in San Diego or Parris Island upon arriving for basic training. Like everything else that Marines do, a purpose for this exists and its meaning transcends generations.

My exposure to the “Message” occurred in 2004 while working at Camp Pendleton. Its simplicity and enduring message on basic leadership principles floored me. Consequently, it’s now provided to every Team engaged with as its message of devotion, duty and common sense helps others understand what I hope to instill.

Any organization seeking enduring transformation needs resilient leaders at all levels that think strategically and execute against organizational objectives. If your organization struggles with this, please read. You may find 19th century wisdom relevant today.

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Resilient Organizations: The Irony of Individualism

09 Saturday May 2009

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Christmas Truce, Individualism, Resilience

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The Suicide of EuropeIndividualism
The assassination on June 28, 1914, of Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand accelerated escalating tensions between European nations culminating in a declaration of war by Austria-Hungary exactly one month later on July 28. The reasons for this war, the dearth of leadership in permitting it, and the nature of entangling alliances fill volumes – in every language.  My interest in this early war period, aside from the failure of leadership, involves the individualism demonstrated in a mostly forgotten event on Christmas Eve 1914, on a battlefield near Ypres, Belgium.

Though many thought this war would end quickly, others felt differently, envisioning a protracted, bitter struggle. The fierce fighting moved Pope Benedict XV, who called the war the “Suicide of Europe”, to write his first encyclical, Ad Beatissmi Apostolorum, published in the Autumn of 1914, appealing to the leaders of the world to sign a Christmas truce as a means for a meaningful dialogue on a lasting peace. World leaders ignored his pleas and, with less than five months of fighting between the warring states, German military forces opposed British and French from deeply trenched positions,  six to eight feet deep, carved into the countryside. A signed armistice was four years and fifteen million dead away. What happened amidst heavy fighting in the winter of 1914, confounded many. Continue reading →

Controlling Anger: Pulling Nails from the Fence

06 Wednesday May 2009

Posted by Black Diamond Transformation in Inspiration, Leadership, Transformation

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Anger, Harmony, Matthew 12:36, Patience

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How Do You Manage Anger?anger
During a recent conversation with a group of Executives, a Partner asked how I managed to control anger. The intention was to elicit a response to broaden group understanding of performance under pressure. Smiling, I answered that – with Irish and German ancestry – passion exhibited itself in many odd behaviors, mostly in avoidance of Cubs games due to the team’s penchant for failure in late innings and the inability to cope with enduring mediocrity. Wishing to pass along a basic truth without sounding pedantic, I asked the group if awareness existed of a story about the young boy told to drive nails through a fence by his father in hope of better understanding his temper. The vacant stares told of a light turned green and (before anyone could stop me) I began the telling of a young father’s wisdom in teaching a child how to bridle his anger. Continue reading →

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