ABSTRACT
Leadership, formally defined, is the ‘capacity to lead.’ Financial, market, and other regulatory pressures have forced healthcare leaders to find innovative channels or economies of scale to buffer some pressures. Another and equally important change has been record-level top leadership disruption in healthcare. By definition, ‘A Thought Leader can be recognized as an authority in a specific field, whose expertise is sought and often rewarded, who can be an expert, a historical figure, or a “wise person” with worldly impact.’ Some enterprise realized its lifeboat needed to be centered around three plans: strategy, change, and knowledge. A strategic plan is simply a high-level organizational road map consisting of at least four parts. The first part of the strategy plan is assessment. Once the assessment is complete, part two of the strategic plan is crafted. Part three and four of the strategy plan are straightforward. These include implementing the strategic plan and reassessing its effectiveness.
