Strategic Teamwork in Health Care: The Essential Role of Physicians Allowing physicians to participate in strategic health care discussions greatly enhances physician buy-in when it comes to implementation.

Toward a Strategy of Patient-Centered Access to Primary Care A blueprint for creating a multifaceted but coordinated patient-centered access strategy.

Team-Based Care at Mayo Clinic: A Model for ACOs Medical teamwork depends on culture as much as, or even more than, on structure.

Thinking Like Michael Porter The Harvard professor's books are required reading for health care leaders tackling strategy.

The Words of Leadership Strategic direction demands specific language, not vague and overused cliches.

Keep the Focus on Health Care's Core Value New payment models may be looming, but a health care organization's core value proposition regarding patient care needs to stay in focus.

The Power of a Good Argument Leaders in health care, be they physicians, nurses, executives or board members, are all entrusted with the responsibility to argue with particular vigor and intensity.

Time for Big Anthropology Numbers don't tell us everything we need to know. We must also consider human culture.