Writing
Essays on turnaround leadership, systems thinking, and organizational learning in behavioral health.
- The method
Rubik's Cubes and Community Health
September 8, 2020
How I adapted balanced-scorecard and systems-thinking models into a single decision framework — the quadrants — to turn around community behavioral-health systems in Texas and Utah.
- Cornerstone
Congruence in Community Health
October 14, 2020
Congruence is the gap between what an organization says it is and what people actually experience. In behavioral health — across clients, families, staff, and funders — closing that gap is the whole game.
Workload and Resource Balancing: A Compass for Healthcare Leaders
February 18, 2024
A medical-model approach to strategic planning in healthcare: diagnosis, SMART goals, intervention strategies, and the accountability to make them hold.
Interrupting Recidivism in Chronic Care Populations
February 9, 2024
A four-tiered categorical model for interrupting chronic recidivism in behavioral health — matching patients to the right level of care and tracking outcomes with data.
Systems Thinking: A Game Changer in Healthcare
January 29, 2024
Systems Thinking, a cornerstone of Peter Senge's philosophy, applied to healthcare — seeing a hospital as one interconnected system rather than a set of isolated departments.
Unlocking Potential in Healthcare: The Wisdom of Peter Senge
January 24, 2024
Peter Senge's idea of the "learning organization" — adaptability, collaborative learning, and collective problem-solving — and why it matters in healthcare.
Board Members and Lemon Juice: Beware the Dunning-Kruger Bias
January 18, 2024
The Dunning-Kruger effect at the board level: why new board members overestimate what they know, how to spot it, and how to counter it.
Modern Health Leaders
October 21, 2020
The leadership qualities behavioral-health organizations need to thrive amid change: a shared vision, real communication, a lived culture, and consistent, unified leadership.
Developing Organizational Agility: Babies, Baseball and Bikers
August 1, 2020
What babies, baseball players, and bikers reveal about organizational agility — and how Lean principles turn adaptability into a measurable discipline.