Leading an effective team is hard but not complicated.

The only goal is to maximize our team's impact.

There are only 5 ways to move the needle:

(full playbook detailed in the thread)

People can help you in many ways throughout life, but there are two things nobody can give you: curiosity and drive. They must be self-supplied.

If you are not interested and curious, all the information in the world can be at your fingertips, but it will be relatively useless.

Cultural patterns of behavior and belief frequently impact our perceptions (what we see), cognitions (what we think), and actions (what we do).

Most transformation efforts fail. Major new research from Bain & Company says only 12% of big change programmes produce lasting results. They identify six 'good practices' for large scale change strategies that greatly increase the likelihood of success:
1) Treat transformation

🚨'[G]rowing attacks on DEI initiatives [portend] devastating consequences for existing efforts 2 diversify the healthcare workforce in service of an increasingly diverse nation & on existing racialized health inequities in the US.'

🙏🏾👏🏾Oni Blackstock, MD MHS & Jessica Isom MD MPH

Happy Administrative Professionals Day to our wonderful team! You help our educators train future physicians, our researchers innovate, and our clinicians heal. Your work is invaluable - thank you!

The 'Cambridge Elements' series on major approaches to improving quality & safety in health & care has published its new guide on values & ethics in improvement work. It's free for all to read/download. The guide helps us to focus on:
1) the rich array of values that underpin

Banning smartphones in schools is good for learning and well-being.

New study of 400+ middle schools in Norway: after smartphone bans, girls had fewer mental health issues & better grades. Boys and girls were less likely to be bullied.

Smartphones belong at home or in lockers.

The key to staying in the zone is to let go of this internal resistance and accept the past, trust the future, and embrace the present, just as they are. The key, in other words, is to say yes to life.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but…

Yes, medical residents are once again exempted from being paid overtime.

See p. 378 of the final rule PDF:

The most valuable indicator of future potential is not past performance. It's recent progress.

The people who exceed expectations tomorrow are the ones who improved the most yesterday. Getting better shows the drive and dexterity to learn.

Growth is an accomplishment in itself.

The best way to regulate anger is not to vent right away. It’s to calm down first.

154 studies: Deep breathing, meditation & yoga are better antidotes to aggression than yelling, punching & running.

Anger management is about lowering your heart rate, not raising it. Relaxing

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Amazon's #1 New Release in Job Hunting & Career Guides. A super crowded market! Excited to show up & represent as women, physicians, & people who 🧡 sharing strategies for success.

cc: Resa E Lewiss MD Hanover Square Press HarperCollins

High-purpose environment, flooded with signals that linked the present effort to a meaningful future, and used a single story to orient motivation the way that a magnetic field orients a compass needle to true north: This is why we work. Here is where you should put your energy.

“I’m going to describe a problem I see; I may be wrong, and if I am I hope you’ll tell me; if I’m not I hope my bringing it up will help you fix it.”

Only 16% of employees are engaged at work. The most extensive and methodologically consistent global study of employee engagement reveals why. s.hbr.org/39uWZTy

Emergency Departments - across the US - are more than just front doors to our nations' hospitals. They are lifelines in our most critical moments.

The Department of Justice has set up an online portal where the public can submit complaints about unfair methods of competition and monopolistic practices in healthcare. People > Profit justice.gov/atr/HealthyCom…

Calling all medical professionals! The DLBHF MSC would like to hear your stories and learn from your journeys through failures and successes. We are starting our Anti-Resume Initiative and have opened up for submissions. Click here to find out more: bit.ly/antiresumeinit…