Acknowledging Our Mentors: Bill Rieger Learned How Not To Lead
While I have had respect for former employers and leaders that I have worked with, I often walk away from those relationships with a seeming reality of what not to do versus what to do — how not to...
View ArticleBill Rieger, CIO, Flagler Hospital, Chapter 1
About Flagler Migrating from Meditech to Allscripts Different strategies to get buy-in from physicians and nurses Access to inpatient records for affiliated docs Dealing with the fallout of Allscripts’...
View ArticleBill Rieger, CIO, Flagler Hospital, Chapter 2
What Allscripts did right Answering to the board — “They trusted me” Paul Black’s goodwill tour Flagler’s year-long strategic-planning process Clinical integration — “It’s our version of an ACO”...
View ArticleBill Rieger, CIO, Flagler Hospital, Chapter 3
HIE hesitancy Becoming Flagler’s first CIO From no IT governance to rolling out an EMR — “We had to use tools at the same time we were building them.” Challenges with change management The CIO network...
View ArticleBill Rieger, CIO, Flagler Hospital, Chapter 4
Qualities of a great leader Flagler’s upside-down org chart Walking the walk — “You promote your own behavior, like it or not.” Partnering with iMethods to improve the culture Change management — “It...
View ArticleFather Knows Best: Using Parenting Tactics To Lead An Organization Through...
My son has rolled his eyes at me 49 times out of the 50 that we have had conversations about ‘the change’ he is experiencing both emotionally and physically as a 14 year-old. The first time we talked,...
View ArticleOne CMIO’s Honor System
Have you ever been to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier? Ever watch those soldiers patrol the flame, uniforms impeccably creased and pressed, shoes shined like mirrors, brass cleaned and reflecting? When...
View ArticleThe Intersection of Leadership & Friendship
If you had to do it all over again, how would you do it differently? If it wasn’t too late for you, what would you change about how you lead? If you could reshape your identity and cause people to look...
View ArticleHow To Replace A Leader
Even when you know it’s coming, it is still very difficult. Our whole leadership team knew that once we went live with our EMR, at least one member of the leadership team would leave. What we didn’t...
View ArticleTurning Autopilot Off
With the increase and improvements in technology, pilots today can feel more like computer operators than they do pilots. There is so much auto-pilot related technology in commercial airplanes that...
View ArticleStaying Ahead Of The Leaving Curve
In a webinar last week, I was asked a very good question: What do you tell good people who want to leave your organization? How people leave your organization will have a big impact on the atmosphere...
View ArticleThe Freedom That Comes With Boundaries
NPR has a radio program called TED Radio Hour. If you haven’t heard of it yet, “TED” is a small nonprofit devoted to ideas worth spreading. It started out as a conference bringing together people from...
View ArticleBuilding A Culture Of Honor
There was a man who owed a large sum of money — $100,000 large. Let’s just this debt was not related to a mortgage or an expensive car, if you know what I mean. He was not very good with money and was...
View ArticleThe Problem With Leading From The Front
Watching my son ski down the hill was incredible. In just a few short hours, he was performing parallel turns like a pro, much better than I could. Over the course of our three-day ski trip, watching...
View ArticleMilk to Maturity
If you have children or have experienced watching children grow, you have witnessed their progression through different stages of development. Literally starting on milk (or some kind of nutritional...
View ArticleA Blueprint For Growing Leaders
One of the greatest responsibilities you have as a leader is to define who you are as a person: what characteristics of past leaders do you want to adopt, and more importantly, what characteristics do...
View ArticleMarking More Than Just Time
For some, especially children, birthdays represent fun and attention. Later on, they represent a coming of age (i.e., 18, or 21), but eventually, they get you thinking about how fast life is going by....
View ArticleWhen It’s Okay To Fake It
Ever hear of a high school student that was a raging success story? Someone who was a national merit scholarship award winner or someone who had multiple college athletic scholarship offers? This may...
View ArticleWrestling With The Notion Of Retirement
In the beginning, whatever you believe the beginning was, there was no retirement. Whether we are talking about cavemen, who scientists say only lived for an average of 20 years, or biblical men and...
View ArticleBe Original
You are not original! In spite of the title of this blog post, you are not original, nor would I encourage you to try and be original. There is nothing new under the sun — you have probably heard that...
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