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You can take advantage of your past to secure a more fulfilling future, though for most hospital CEOs it's not going to be easy. To do so requires hard work, dogged determination and a clear vision. Do you have what it takes to make the change and pull it off?

Tapping into teams.

Team management has a definite cachet in management circles in general industry; business magazines like Fortune regularly write about the concept, and executives in a wide variety of business fields are excited by it. But there's a lot of confusion behind the buzz, and the reality, say experts and those who've tried it, is a lot more complex than it might seem at first. Can the idea even be applied to hospitals and other large health care organizations?

Managing chaos.

TQM/CQI. Patient-centered care. Critical paths. Reengineering. Downsizing, rightsizing, networking, merging. It is any wonder health care executives are feeling shell-shocked? Yet the reality is that there's no avoiding change, only managing it. And those executives shaping the flow of change are keeping their organizations in the game. Some stories from the front.

Sexually harassed.

When neurosurgeon Frances Conley resigned her Stanford University Medical School professorship over sexual harassment, her case received widespread notoriety. But Conley is far from alone in health care.