title: Seven deadly assumptions for new physician managers.
abstract: You've just been, or are about to be, named to a management position, your first. Success will not be easy, but it can be achieved. Just avoid seven common assumptions that are the chief culprits in the demise of many a physician executive: All human beings make rational decisions, so the way to resolve conflicts is by giving people more data. Clinical teams are the same as management teams. Your new title confers all the decision-making authority, trust, and power needed to do the job. Bedside communication techniques are the same ones used in the board room. A financial statement is pretty much the same as a checking account statement. There are no politics in management. Just reading every important management text will make you a great manager.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Kennedy
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Pickett
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000592:standards*; D010819:Physician's Role; D014481:United States