Words of Wisdom - Round 2
Welcome to my second WoW post. The first one is here.
Once again I’ve selected some of my favourite pieces over the last few months from bloggers I admire. I hope they provide some ‘food for thought’ for readers interested in improving or transforming the NHS. In no particular order:
Paul Levy is CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In Running a Hospital , Paul was brave enough to publish up-to-date ICU Infection Rates. This has caused quite a stir. See the original post here;
George Ambler’s wonderful post, The Practice of Facilitative Leadership has 6 themes that will really 'ring bells' for anyone involved in leading people across boundaries;
Kathy Sierra at Creating Passionate Users has a bunch of posts I could include here – but as I have to choose one, I’ll go for the one about the need for organisations to enable staff to be passionate about their work rather than their employer. It's here;
What’s the point of articulating a strategy that your organisation has no hope of ever achieving? This is one of Rob Millard’s Three Unpalatable Truths. Curious about the other two?
As branding becomes more important in a more competitive NHS what might be a better balance between a national and local ‘look and feel’ for the NHS? Susan Abbott has a nice take on this question.
Rick Maurer, author of Beyond the Wall of Resistance draws attention to a Washington Post article where a reporter looked at all conflicts between UN Security Council members and weaker nations since the end of World War II. She found that in all 122 conflicts the stronger nation failed to win 39 percent of the time. Read Rick's take on it here.
Next up, an article by Mathew Holt, author of the US based The Health Care Blog about new developments in social networking for healthcare. Read it here, you never know, there might be something in this internet thingy after all;
Finally, Werner Kuper draws attention to a great icebreaker exercise originally posted by Tom Heck on his TeachMeTeamWork.Com blog
I hope you enjoy the selection.
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Health Care has got to be just about the most complex environment around, what with multiple stakeholders, escalating demands, vested interests -- you name it. It makes the stuff we do in the private sector look like child's play, IMHO. So my hat's off to all the regular readers here.