title: Why some managers fail.
abstract: Among modern societies, the American culture is one of the most competitive. And within that culture, physicians are among the most success-oriented professionals. This is easy to understand, in that, for our patients, success is equated with well-being and continuance of life. This emphasis upon success is also finely honed in the physician executive. Commonly, our institutional goals revolve around providing a high-quality health care product in a cost-effective manner. For the physician executive, success is based largely upon the extent to which institutional goals have been attained or, in the present environment, if it has survived. But the actual ingredients for the physician executive's success will depend upon a variety of diverse factors, both personal and environmental.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000592:standards*; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States