A physician's guide to practice governance

Riddle: Everyone wants the title but few want the job. Everyone wants the glory but none want the drudgery. It has to be done but few want to do it--and even fewer want to allow someone else to do it. What is it? The answer, according to author Joan Wagner Zinober, Ph.D., M.B.A., is practice management and governance. This is her first article in a series on people management and leadership in which she describes several governance structures and their pros and cons.