In healthcare we have too many challenges, too many pressures, too much urgency, and too much on the line (people’s lives) to sequester leadership amongst the few. We need to invest in everyone at every level to be prepared, embraced and trusted as agents to problem-solve, lead and improve.

Just because something isn’t proven in a laboratory with a randomized, double-blind experiment doesn’t mean it isn’t a painfully obvious thing to do. Intentionally building a foundation of leadership and management skills amongst front line workers, clinicians, managers and executives is a lot like jumping out of an airplane.

Leadership is the lynchpin to measurably improve culture, quality and patient safety. Learn more about how a national health system of community hospitals achieved dramatic results at scale.

How many things can the human brain remember at any given time? How many variables can we possibly pay attention to simultaneously? Does this give us a clue as to why, for decades, telephone numbers had a certain number of digits?

Take a step into how culture, the community and health factor into our current understanding of “well-being.” And instead of simply focusing on the individual when it comes to well-being and burnout, what about the overwhelming influence of our environment and surroundings?