title: Reality-based strategies for real times.
abstract: In today's troubled time, tactical strategic planning can carry a health-care organization only so far. And while strategic planning and risk-taking do not generally go hand-in-hand, maybe it's about time that they do, the author contends. Strategists are certain to find the non-traditional strategic planning initiatives posed below to be provocative, if not compelling.
mesh_terms: D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States