#20: Balancing Mission and Margin: Leadership Skills to Leverage Both

Are you feeling the tension between serving the mission while maintaining the margin?

It is a stressful time for leaders as they worry about delivering quality, safe care, reducing clinician burden, improving patient and family experiences and at the same time dealing with changing reimbursement models and financial constraints.

As a leader, do you feel like you don’t have enough fingers to plug the numerous holes in the dike?

The truth is, these challenges are not isolated problems. They represent polarities, interdependent pairs or tensions that are related to one larger polarity. 

We posit the Margin and Mission polarity is the overarching polarity in healthcare today and many other polarities co-exist beneath this polarity.

Join us as we discuss the interdependent relationship between margin and mission, the internal and external factors that are impacting both and some simultaneous action steps to gain or maintain positive outcomes.

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