The only way forward is to confront the fact that you were wrong and learn from it. Not a multiple-choice question on an exam, but an actual choice. It’s good to take one on the chin in front of 30 or more people. Inevitably, they made a few bad decisions along the way and had to face transient humiliation in front of colleagues and subordinates. They’ve been in high-pressure situations such as swim meets, football games, or live-fire situations where they made decisions. Athletes and prior military folks tend to adjust nicely to life in medicine. The most needed quality as a physician leader (or any leader) is humility. It is impossible to gauge the size of your ego if you don’t have a stack of small unit leadership situations with which to calibrate it. How big is my ego? The trouble with a career in medicine is that you spend four years in a classroom and not managing people.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |