There Is No Plan B

I was having lunch last week with a colleague and he made a comment we can all relate to. He said, “My big takeaway from business school was that change is hard.”

This comment, as well as the market turbulence of disruptive innovation and creative destruction came to mind when I read the article, Cornerstone: The Rise and Fall of a Health Care Experiment, in The New York Times. The article focused on the rise and fall of one accountable care organization (ACO). The ACO, North Carolina-based Cornerstone Health Care, adopted many progressive policies. They decided to pay physicians . . .