In a recent blog, James A. Rice, PhD., FACHE, President for Integrated Healthcare Strategies outlines how effective frontline leaders should strive to accomplish a select set of virtues in order to be successful in their practice.
Editor’s Note: This blog originally appeared on Integrated Healthcare Strategies website
How can Hospital and Ministry of Health Leaders from SE Asia master new approaches to leadership and management? To address this question, The US Embassy Singapore developed a two week program involving faculty from the Singapore public hospital system, SingHealth, and USAID supported health sector managers from the US. Bob Stevens, CEO of Ridgeview Medical Center and I conducted four workshops in this program. Twenty-three participants from the health sectors of Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia were encouraged to avoid common vices of ineffective leaders such as the inability to take risks, and the failure to engage and listen to diverse stakeholders. Effective frontline leaders should embrace the flip-side of such vices by striving to accomplish these five virtues. Click here to continue >>
