January 13, 2022 – When was the last time you came upon one of your physician customers poring over their copy of “7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” “Good to Great,” “Wooden on Leadership” or “Jack: Straight from the Gut,” by the late chairman and CEO of GE, Jack Welch?
Reading materials like these may be what’s needed, as today’s physicians face all kinds of leadership challenges that earlier generations of doctors did not – quality and outcomes ratings, safety audits, automation, managing mid-level providers, nasty social media reviews … COMPLEXITY. Are they up to the task?
Some are natural-born leaders. Traits like kindness, empathy, respect, listening, inclusiveness, decisiveness and teamwork come naturally to them. But experts in physician leadership believe leadership is a skill that can be learned and must always be practiced – and practiced some more. They believe that failure to do so hurts patients and leads to disengagement on the part of the staff as well as the physician leader.
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