Revisiting: Developing Leaders in Racially Diverse Organizations

Developing leaders? Developing countries?

A visit to Ghana, with the hosts interested in developing leaders and the guest interested in developing countries, led to a questioning of both. Three approaches to development are discussed. The top-down government planning approach, discredited with the fall of communism, has been replaced by an outside-in ‘globalisation’ approach, which is now promoted as the way to develop an economy. But ...

Roundtable: revisiting innovative leaders in medical education.

MEDICC Review: WHO defi nes social accountability of medical schools as the obligation to orient teaching, research and service activities to addressing the priority health needs of the communities they have a mandate to serve, defi ning those needs in collaboration with government, health service organizations, health professionals and the public.[1] How does this contribute to making universa...

Necessities of Developing Diverse Cultural Potentials in Academic Discourse

The absolute hegemony of international code of (academic) communication has resulted in the development and spread of the discoursal voice of the culture form which historical English has emerged, and, as a consequence, any violation from the generic conventions and thinking patterns born out of such a discourse has resulted in the deprivation of non-native thinkers form active participation in...

Early Identification of Technology Leaders in Organizations

Hemochromatosis and iron-overload screening in a racially diverse population.

BACKGROUND Iron overload and hemochromatosis are common, treatable conditions. HFE genotypes, levels of serum ferritin, transferrin saturation values, and self-reported medical history were studied in a multiethnic primary care population. METHODS Participants were recruited from primary care practices and blood-drawing laboratories. Blood samples were tested for transferrin saturation, serum...