Creative Abandonment - Thoughts on Community Health Center Governing Boards and Executive Directors

Creative Abandonment - Thoughts on Community Health Center Governing Boards and Executive Directors

A critical question for Community Health Center (CHC) leaders is, "When to stop pouring resources into things that have achieved their purpose?"

The most dangerous traps for CHC Governing Boards and Executive Directors
are those near-successes - where everybody says that if you just give it another big push, it will go over the top. They try it once; they try it twice; then a third time. By then it should be obvious this will be very hard to do.

Community Health Center Governing Boards should advise their Executive Directors:
"Tell me what you're doing; and
Tell me what you have stopped doing."

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