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If You Think Worst Is Over, Take Benjamin Graham's Advice, the offering in Jason Zweig's Intelligent Investor column in The Wall Street Journal print edition of May 23, provides some thoughtful guidelines to managing an investment portfolio in uncertain times. Interestingly, and perhaps inadvertently, the same guidelines hold for managing a leadership portfolio in all times. And truthfully, what times aren't uncertain? In today's economic upheaval we are simply more aware of the same uncertainty that exists in "good times." So read this with an expansive mind, with an eye to leading health care organizations today....and tomorrow...

I may be slow. It took two hits about Sergio Marchionne before I got him on the blog. The impetus to take the leap came when Business Week published the April 2 article, How Fiat's Marchionne Can Help Chrysler by Carol Matlack. But I do take credit for noticing and not forgetting when I first thought there was something here for health care leaders -after reading the Harvard Business Review's Fiat's Extreme Makeover in December of 2008, which was authored by Mr. Marchionne himself. Read the HBR piece first, for its strong focus on leadership culture, to see why Marchionne may be able to teach Chrysler - and health care leaders - a few things...

Everyone's abuzz about the Tata Nano. The world's cheapest car is taking India, and the world, by storm. Leveraging the wundercar's impending launch, Business Week (on March 18, 2009) asked the critical question in its eponymous article: What Can Tata's Nano Teach Detroit? I immediately tried to leverage their question to your advantage - so I began to wonder about what the Nano can teach health care leaders...

I've previously commented on Thomas D. Kuczmarski's innovative ideas about innovation (see Is Don Berwick the Secretary of Innovation?). I am going back to the well because An Innovation Action Plan for Obama which appeared in his March 9 Business Week web site column seemed worthy of translation from the business world to the world of health care leadership...

While every health care leader should read every article in the January 2009 Harvard Business Review, I can't resist going for To Lead, Create A Shared Vision, contributed by James M. Kouzes (Dean's Executive Professor of Leadership) and Barry Z. Posner (Dean) of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. They also happen to be the co-authors of The Leadership Challenge, an easy reading business book of biblical stature among leadership gurus. It would be a mistake to think that yet another spin on vision is bound to be trite...