Month: October 2021
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Objective Assessment of Primary Healthcare Leadership
In our primary healthcare leadership fellowship that’s been running for 2 years now, we’ve only used self-assessment by fellows as a measure of impact till now. While self-assessment is the easiest to perform and also gives a good sense of subjective measures like confidence and readiness, bringing objectivity to the measurement of impact is important…
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Be Irreplaceable Workers And Replaceable Leaders
A good worker is someone who produces so much value that they become irreplaceable. As Cal Newport writes in the book “So Good They Can’t Ignore You” knowledge workers who have the most satisfying careers don’t just “follow their passion”. Instead, they build rare and valuable skills that they leverage to negotiate better career…
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Why I Shaved Beard
Well kempt, clean shaven man dressed in a coat, pant, shoes, and a tie. That’s the typical figure of leadership. Anarchists hate that. Feminists hate that. Why should leadership look a certain way and act a certain way? Who is excluded from the ideal image of a leader? In medical school, for example, it was…
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How To Live With Opposition
There are enough number of people in the world who will tell you that the world is becoming “increasingly polarized”, that respectful political debate is “a thing of the past”, that people talk past each other “all the time”. You will also be forced to pick a side. “You’re either with us or against us.”…
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On Leadership
One can be a leader only when one desires something to happen in the world. This something can be called “change”. Leaders want to change the world (or a part of it) in some way. The change that a leader wants to see in the world – the impact they want to make – that…