26 August 2025Chitradurga. The fifth and one of the most essential survival strategies for small Indian hospitals, using the McKinsey 7S Model amidst increasing corporatization, is leadership style. I remember reading an excellent book, “Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?”, in which Lou Gerstner wrote about his historic achievement of bringing IBM back from the brink
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It’s more often that a flash of iridescent green wings would be seen flying across, uttering a sharp melodious trill through the landscapes of the Indian subcontinent—this is the Green Bee-eater (Merops orientalis), small but enthralling to the hilt, and significant to our ecosystems. But besides their beauty, most Green Bee-eaters are very acrobatic flyers
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I recently found a striking article by Rachel Nuwer, published in Scientific American Magazine, Vol. 331, No. 2 (September 2024), p. 50. Its title was “The End of the Lab Rat?” As an ardent animal lover, but not of the PETA kind that protests against laboratory research using animals, I was pleasantly surprised to see
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A small Indian hospital is up against the giants of corporatization, where it is all about size and efficiency. One of the most important competitive advantages that a small hospital has is the ability to build a patient-centric culture—to give a commitment to delivering personalized, compassionate care that treats every patient as an individual valuable
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