Lessons learnt: healthcare leadership from many cultural backgrounds
I have been very fortunate to have worked in the international environment for the last 10 years. This has given me practical experience of different leadership practices around the world. I am often asked how are we in Australasia different in our leadership experience?
How to Stand Out in an Interview
This is a 6 minute video by Peter Carter, a man who has seen it all in the interview room, sharing his insight into what it takes to stand out and make an impression in an interview. Thank you to Pete for taking time out…
Paul Ingle’s Leadership Journey and Lessons
“You should lower the angle of your head when you speak. You’ve got a very long nose so it makes you look arrogant”
International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare 2017 – Day 2
This is a follow on from my thoughts on Day 1 at IHI 2017 which was convened back in London this year and which in my view was more about embedding the patient experience and engagement as a way of practice for healthcare workers. A…
International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare 2017 – Day 1
One of the events in my calendar that I have missed only once in the past 5 years – IHI Forum. London once again was the setting for over 3,000 healthcare leaders and practitioners from around the world and whilst in retrospect I’d say that…
Book Review: Being Mortal – Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is not exactly holiday reading. With the surgical precision befitting a man of his trade, Dr. Gawande regales his readers with the process of human bodily decay – a calm descent from the greying…
Kevin Hardy: My Mentors
In our office we give a name to every Learning Set, this is my personal Set, it’s conveniently called the Original Set and I have been in the Set for 25 years. We last met a week ago. It is my ‘go to’ group. These…
15 Context Questions Leaders Should be Asking
I am not one for too many leadership models and frameworks, although I think they provoke thought. A model is only a snapshot of leadership not an organic view of the “weft and weave” of organisational life.
Book Review: The Seventh Sense by Joshua Cooper Ramo
Joshua Ramo believes that we are in a new revolutionary era where surprising election results, refugee waves, war against terrorists that produces more terrorists, domestic politics turning into extremism, new billion-dollar fortunes all have the same cause: networks.
Transformation is not a one Act
Kevin Hardy met up with Dr Peter Lachman (click to watch video), CEO of ISQUA in Sydney at the APAC Forum in September this year. Peter is a clinician who describes himself as “having been on the quality improvement bus for a long time.’’ He continues…