CONTEXT Addressing the nation's increasingly complex public health challenges will require more effective multisector collaboration and stronger public health leadership. In 2005, the Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute launched an annual, year-long intensive "community teams" program. The goal of this program is to develop collaborative leadership and public health skills among Wisconsin-ba...

The rapidly advancing implementation of public hospital reform urgently requires the identification and classification of a pool of exceptional medical specialists, corresponding with incentives to attract and retain them, providing a nucleus of distinguished expertise to ensure public hospital preeminence. This paper examines the significance of academic leadership, from a strategic management...

Physicians are drawn into diverse leadership roles in academic medicine, but little in our education and training prepares us for these responsibilities. Fortunately, there is growing convergence in the literature on the attributes of successful leaders for knowledge-based organisations. Top-performing leaders seem to be self-effacing team-builders who eschew rapid-cycle strategic planning and ...

Academic Intelligence Academic intelligence refers to the coalescence of memory and analytical abilities to constitute the conventional notion of intelligence—the abilities needed to recall and recognize, and analyze, evaluate, and judge information. These abilities are typically measured by quintessential standardized tests. Research on the relationship between these abilities and leadership, ...

BACKGROUND Leadership plays a crucial role in teams working in complex environments, and research has shown that shared leadership where all team members perform leadership functions is an effective strategy. The authors aimed to describe shared leadership patterns during anaesthesia induction and show how they are linked to team performance. METHODS 12 anaesthesia teams consisting of one res...

Abstract In Pro Murena , Cicero argues that Cato’s rigid philosophical comportment to politics reflects a mistaken understanding both of philosophy and politics. By implication, he suggests there is an approach compatible with political leadership. Specifically, thoroughgoing commitment the Platonic Academy (i.e., Academic Philosophy) entirely leadership in late Roman Republic. This essay looks...

With little or no formal training in medical school or residency, physicians today are often unprepared for their leadership roles within large interdisciplinary healthcare teams.1,2 These leadership roles range from leading individual patients to larger interdisciplinary organizations. Physicians are expected to lead effectively based on the assumption that the skills that made them successful...