Health care industry consolidation: implications for physician executive careers

Corporate America is changing in ways never seen before. At the same time that stockholders are cheering the rise in many companies' profits, people within these organizations are struggling with new definitions of job and career. To satisfy Wall Street and presumably to be more successful, workers and managers are encouraged to become more entrepreneurial, more accountable, more efficient. If they are successful, they are told, they might get to keep their jobs, but there are no guarantees. Security, whether economic or emotional, is no longer part of the deal.