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Training + Mentoring + Personality = Leadership

Are healthcare leaders born with the capacity to lead or a can anyone be trained to lead? It’s the old nature versus nurture debate, and the scientific underpinnings suggest that both sides of this eq

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Florence Nightingale – “Authentic Leadership” for Patient Sa...

War is a terrible, horrible thing. As a former military physician, I have been to war and have seen the mayhem inflicted by the mechanics and methodologies of modern warfare, alarming and sobering stu

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The Leadership Report Card – How well am I doing ?

For a good part of my career, I was a front-line stakeholder, providing healthcare to patients and collaborating with them to achieve best outcomes. So in this sense, I was a follower, not a leader, a

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Leadership and Management – It’s all about clarity

Leadership often is viewed as something emanating from the top and filtering downward. However, effective leadership is more about colleagues working together, buy-in and bottom-up implementation than

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Leadership & the Just Culture – Holding the Keys to Safety, ...

Leaders are responsible for establishing and sustaining the culture of an institution. They are accountable for monitoring the institution’s cultural rhythm. With strong leadership, that rhythm should

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Enabling Joy and Meaning – Contributing to Safety and Qualit...

There is another element of leadership that relates very poignantly to the concept of authenticity I raised in the January commentary.1 This is the relationship between hospital culture and the workfo

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