A natural leader

Leader Characteristics in Hospital Change Management: A Case Study

Leader Characteristics in Hospital Change Management: A Case Study Masoud Etemadian1, Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad2, Mohammad Javad Soleimani3, Seyed Pouria Hedayati4* 1 Urology department, Hasheminejad Kidney Center, Hospital Management Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Health Management and Economics, Health Information Management Research...

You Can and Should Be a Leader - Even If You Aren't a Natural.

Physicians are by design expected to be leaders. On the most basic level, a family physician leads the delivery of care in a medical assistant-physician team. On a more complex level, a family physician may run a large health care organization. Often, the larger the organization we find ourselves in, the less we may feel like leaders and the more we may feel like worker bees. In this issue, we ...

Leader Role Inversion as a Corollary to Leader-Member Exchange

A Challenging Leader

Milton Charles Winternitz received his B.A. degree from the Johns Hopkins University at the age of eighteen years and thereupon entered the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. At this early age he began what was to be a brilliant career as a student of medicine, teacher, administrator , scientist, humanitarian, and philosopher. Rarely is one individual endowed with outstanding proficie...

Electing a Leader

The following scenario was examined in [1]: we toss  ideal coins, then toss those which show tails after the first toss, then toss those which show tails after the second toss, etc. Observe that if, at a given toss, only heads appear, then the process immediately terminates. Suppose instead that we require the coins (all of which showed heads) to be tossed again? Under such a change of rules, ...