title: Caught-in-the-middle management.
abstract: Health care is changing rapidly and dramatically. Most everyone working in health care today is feeling caught in the middle--caught between competing trends and forces. This article offers 10 techniques for coping with being caught in the middle. It starts with the premise that all of us are in the middle and will stay in the middle throughout the rest of our productive careers, and it recommends that the first step in practicing caught-in-the-middle management is this recognition. The other nine techniques are to shorten your focus, develop the worst case scenario for your organization, develop the worst case scenario for your career, take care of yourself, build your credibility, build your political skills, build your power, make your organization succeed, and clarify your values.
authors.affiliation: University of Louisville Medical School Practice Association, KY, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Slaton
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel / Q000592:standards*; D002322:Career Mobility; D006298:Health Services Administration / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010559:Personnel Management; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011361:Professional Competence; D014481:United States