Topic
Self-Management
894 articles
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Women In Healthcare Leadership
Women comprise most of healthcare’s workforce but remain underrepresented in senior leadership, CEO roles, professional societies, journal editorships, and influential healthcare rankings.
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Filling the Cracks with Gold
A physician leader reflects on an ICU nurse’s opioid use disorder, exploring trust, accountability, patient safety, and the power of compassionate systems that support recovery.
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Boost Your Emotional Intelligence with These 3 Questions
If you’re looking to develop particular EI strengths, it helps to consider areas for improvement others have identified along with the goals you want to achieve — and then to actively build habits in those areas rathe...
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The Invisible Work Draining Your Best Employees
Most leaders assess workload through hours, deadlines, and output, but these measures overlook the mental load employees carry: the ongoing cognitive and emotional effort required to manage tasks, relationships, and c...
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Resigned to Resignation: When Asked to Step Down as a Medical School Dean
Medical school deans face complex roles, balancing diverse relationships and short tenures averaging four years. Success requires strategic planning, viewing the role as a step in their academic journey.
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Leadership is a Journey and Not a Destination
Leadership is an ongoing journey, not a destination. Emphasizing patience, adaptability, and mindfulness, this article explores how these traits foster resilience, innovation, and lasting organizational growth.
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Ethical Leadership in Healthcare: A Multilevel Framework for Physician Leaders
This article introduces a physician-specific ethical leadership framework to address challenges like AI, clinician burnout, and financial pressures. It highlights learnable behaviors to foster integrity in healthcare.
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A Physician, a Rare Disease, and the Art of Being Present with Dr. Lyndsay Hoy
Lyndsay Hoy, MD, shares her journey with rare lung disease LAM, balancing life as a physician and patient. She discusses her marriage, advocacy for rare disease awareness, and the power of empathy and resilience.
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Don’t Quit Your Job Before Asking Yourself These Questions
If you’re thinking about quitting your job, first do a quick analysis. Is the organization you work for the source of your concern? Then, you might look for a similar job with another employer. Is the job the problem?...
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Addressing Sexual Misconduct in Healthcare
Matthew Mazurek, MD, discusses his book Sexual Misconduct, Harassment, and Discrimination in Healthcare in an interview with Mike Sacopulos. The book explores systemic issues in healthcare, including power dynamics, g...
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Public Speaking: Creating Presentations that Are Awe Inspiring Not Yawn Producing
Improve your public speaking with practical tips tailored for physicians. Learn how to engage your audience, deliver value, and leave a lasting impression with every presentation.
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How the Best Leaders Respond to Rule Breaking
Misconduct at work is often treated as a simple problem, yet research shows it is anything but. Drawing on more than 250 studies, Michael J. Gill of the University of Oxford finds that employees break rules for a wide...
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Pausing for Celebration
Celebrate your successes and reflect on your journey. Growth comes from appreciating achievements and learning from failures. Pause, honor your path, and move forward with purpose.
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6 Ways Leaders Harness Stress
Today’s leaders face increasing pressure on all sides, and their stress levels are higher now than they were even at the peak of the pandemic. Though stress can sharpen performance briefly, over time it erodes judgmen...
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The Weight of the Mask
Clinicians often hide behind a polished exterior while grappling with internal struggles. Shifting from "doer" to leader empowers clinicians to create lasting systemic change.
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Family First
Sharon and Michael, a dual-physician couple married for over 40 years, reflect on balancing careers, family, and marriage. Their journey highlights mutual support, shared priorities, and resilience.
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Research: What Message Are Your Headphones Sending Your Coworkers?
Music listening in the workplace is an inherently ambiguous behavior that triggers specific social judgments from colleagues. When coworkers attribute a person’s music use to leisure or personal enjoyment rather than ...
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How People Actually Get to the C-Suite in S&P 500 Companies
Drawing on research into S&P 500 leadership teams, the authors show that most top functional leaders rise internally, that CEO transitions often reshape the senior team, and that executives who succeed at the highest ...
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Navigating the Site Visit and Following Up
Physicians should begin job searches early, narrow top opportunities, and prioritize site visits to assess organizations. Prepare thoroughly, dress professionally, ask insightful questions, and communicate effectively.
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From Burnout to Flourishing: A Conversation with MaryCay Durrant
MaryCay Durrant discusses physician leaders' burnout, linking it to their dedication and training. She shares her WORK resilience model—Wake up, Orient, Reimagine, Keep nourishing—emphasizing small, trust-based changes.
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What Physician Leaders Can Learn From Counseling Psychology
Physician leaders face high-pressure environments, balancing clinical duties, organizational demands, and leadership. Counseling psychology offers tools to coach colleagues and manage emotional challenges effectively.
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The CPE Credential as a Catalyst for Healthcare Transformation: A Personal and Organizational Perspective
The Certified Physician Executive (CPE) equips physicians with leadership skills to manage complex healthcare systems, enhancing individual and organizational performance.
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Physicians and Impostor Syndrome: Between Selflessness and Self-Mastery
Impostor syndrome affects physicians with self-doubt despite competence, driven by perfectionism and cultural norms. Balancing humility and excellence worsens it, but mentorship and psychological safety can help.
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Finding Your Voice: A Physician Leader’s Guide to Public Speaking
Public speaking is vital for physician leaders but often causes anxiety. This article offers strategies like preparation, audience focus, and organized content to help healthcare professionals present effectively.
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Conversations with the Past
The article examines 65 years of changes in medicine from one physician's viewpoint, exploring advancements in technology, training, patient care, and bureaucracy, while emphasizing the need to preserve humanistic val...
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A Purpose-Driven Framework for Career Sustainability Among Physician Leaders in Academic Medicine
This review presents a framework to help physician leaders align values, reflect, and make strategic decisions for sustainable, fulfilling academic medicine careers.
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What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)
Although most people believe that they are self-aware, true self-awareness is a rare quality. In this piece, the author describes a recent large-scale investigation that shed light on some of the biggest roadblocks, m...
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Recognize the Warning Signs of Impending Job Termination
Physicians, like many professionals, face job insecurity in today’s dynamic healthcare environment. Recognizing early warning signs of impending job termination — such as shifts in management behavior, changes in work...
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Why Effective Leaders Get Branded as Problems
When a leader creates friction, organizations default to a single explanation: the leader needs to change. In reality, that friction usually comes from one or a combination of four different sources—capability, percep...
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Disruptive Behavior in Medicine: History and Definition
Disruptive physician behavior, rooted in historical professionalism issues, persists despite reforms. Clear definitions and policies are vital for effective resolution.
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Blood and Transfusion Centers
Blood transfusion and donation centers play a vital role in healthcare, ensuring a reliable blood supply. Physicians oversee medical aspects, compliance, and patient care, with career paths in transfusion medicine.
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Driving Value-Based Care by Putting Patients First
Pamela Sullivan, MD, MBA, CPE, transitioned from physical therapy to emergency medicine and urgent care leadership, now excelling in value-based care. She leads P3 Health Partners' High-Risk Programs, focusing on pati...
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Employees Are Relying on AI for Personal Support. That’s Risky.
Employees are increasingly turning to AI for career advice, emotional support, and even friendship. However, researchers found that despite these interactions, more than half of 1,545 U.S. knowledge workers surveyed f...
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Whom Physicians Become Under Pressure
Healthcare leadership faces structural pressure, with lives at stake and constrained resources. Burnout, trust erosion, and blame persist, highlighting the need for values-driven leadership under stress.
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Tree in Bedrock — Our Two-Physician Marriage
Bryan and Yolanda Becker's 33-year marriage thrives on shared values, resilience, and mutual support. From their chance meeting in an ER to navigating demanding medical careers and family life, their partnership is ro...
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Toxic Followership and Leadership: The Hidden Threat to Organizational Success
This article explores toxic followership, its causes, and its negative impact on leaders and organizations, offering strategies to address manipulative behaviors and foster healthier workplace dynamics.
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The Shadow Economy of Toxic Leadership in Healthcare
Toxic leadership harms healthcare organizations, creating unreported negative outcomes. This article offers eight evidence-based strategies to measure, monitor, and reduce toxic behaviors, fostering ethical leadership...
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Servant Leadership and the Chief Medical Officer: Ethos Made Operational
Servant leadership empowers physician executives to navigate clinical complexity and limited authority by fostering moral authority, psychological safety, and workforce engagement. It emphasizes structured listening, ...
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From Silence to Solutions: Building Courageous Cultures in Healthcare
This article highlights how healthcare organizations can combat the risks of silence by fostering psychological safety and courageous cultures. It outlines strategies for empowering frontline workers to share insights...
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Every Physician Is a Leader
Asha Padmanabhan, MD, shares her journey from reluctant leader to anesthesiologist, advocating for women, resilience, and physician-led growth in medical leadership.
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Building Trust, Not Power: Leading with Humility and Purpose
The author reflects on leading an Internal Medicine department, emphasizing trust, humility, and collaborative leadership to balance patient care and team well-being.
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Burnout Looks Different Across the Org Chart. Watch for These Signs.
Burnout isn’t an individual problem—it’s a systemic design issue that shows up differently across the organization chart. To address burnout proactively before it takes root, leaders need to understand how it can show...
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Mining Gold from Your Vendor Relationships: The Practice Administrator’s Untapped Resource
Medical practice managers can tap into vendor relationships for industry insights, operational tips, and strategic advice. Engaging vendors intentionally boosts efficiency and decision-making.
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Strategic Thinking in Healthcare Leadership
Mike Sacopulos interviews Dr. Michael Gardner about strategic thinking for physician leaders, its role in healthcare, mentorship, AI's impact, and courses being developed to enhance leadership and strategic planning s...
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What Kind of Micromanager Are You?
Micromanagement isn’t inherently bad; it can be strategic, sporadic, or chronic. Effective micromanagers balance transparency, timing, tone, and team trust.
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Culture and Communities of Practice in Changing Times
The article examines culture and community, highlighting “communities of practice” that foster growth through shared interests. It discusses how healthcare professionals can lead cultural shifts post-pandemic.
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To Lead Through Uncertainty, Unlearn Your Assumptions
Leaders grow competence by adding skills, frameworks, and experiences. But they grow “capacity” by unlearning, which involves changing prior scripts, such as the assumptions that speed, reassurance, and control are ne...
