Helen Bevan
@HelenBevan
Leads/facilitates large-scale change. Professor of Practice in Health & Care Improvement @WarwickBSchool. Advisor @HorizonsNHS. Senior Fellow @TheIHI. Views own
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I'm reading 'The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make The Right Things Easier and The Wrong Things Harder' by Bob Sutton (Bob Sutton) & Huggy Rao. 'Friction' means the forces that make it harder, slower or more complicated to get things done in organisations. They describe…
Another excellent article about the book by Amy Edmondson 'Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well'. In an interview with Harvard Business Review, Amy says experimentation and risk-taking are crucial for organisational success but they should be enabled within a coherent framework.…
I'm at #Quality2024 live, listening to Amy Edmondson talking about principles from her book “The Right Kind of Wrong – The Science of Failing Well”. Amy differentiates three kinds of failures in organisations:
1) Basic failures: caused by carelessness or ignorance
2) Complex…
The next keynote at #Quality2024 is being live streamed & open to all. It starts at 4.15pm this afternoon: 'The healthcare sector is responsible for almost 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and if it was a country it would be the 5th largest polluter in the world. But how do…
I'm engaging in outstanding discussions with leaders of change in health & care from across the globe at #Quality2024 . A big theme is how relationships & relatedness are increasingly becoming the primary focus of change methodologies. Read this blog from North East and North Cumbria NHS on how a theory…
For the next three days, I am co-leading the 'change' theme at the International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare. A big message is that we need to stand back & take a systematic view to address large scale, complex problems. See this brilliant set of graphics by Virpi Oinonen / Business illustrator…
One of the best weekly newsletters I subscribe to is the Psychological Safety newsletter from Tom Geraghty. It always has excellent (relevant & useable) content. This week's topic is 'graded assertiveness' (when we need to communicate an important message to someone who is much…