Overworked? Lighten your load. (In the Trenches).: An article from: Physician Executive

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From the author: Physician executives are suffering from creeping task migration--putting in too many hours for few appreciable results. Controlling this increasing workload has become one of the most important issues in health care, brought on by too few people trying to do too much. The only way to lessen the workload is to take charge, analyze, and act. Bosses won't care about the details. Several suggestions are presented to help physician executives downsize their workload while not reducing their output: (7) Compare your priorities with your boss's; (2) lighten up on the perfectionism; (3) change expectations; (4) look for "orphans" to cut--those projects that nobody is invested in; (5) don't target symbolic events; and (6) use logic to drive change. If you spend the next few months getting rid of the ineffective, inefficient, and redundant, you'll be ahead of the game. This is an on going task, and much easier done every three or four months than once a year.

Citation Details
Title: Overworked? Lighten your load. (In the Trenches).
Author: Marilyn Moats Kennedy
Publication:Physician Executive (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2000
Publisher: American College of Physician Executives
Volume: 26 Issue: 2 Page: 56(3)

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