Pathway to Professionalization of Health Leadership

Abstract

The stories in this book suggest health care is rife with difficult experiences, but also full of examples of caring, compassionate and efficient service. Leadership’s job is to replace the former with the latter. Achieving the goals of seamless service, healthy workplaces and efficient and effective transformation of health systems is the job of leaders. Therefore, instead of dwelling on hurtful experiences, and giving up on the job, leaders need to learn from past mistakes while scaling up and spreading successful innovations and stories. Moving forward, we trust that leaders using LEADS as a guide for their practice, will achieve that goal. In this, the final chapter, we share macro lessons we gained writing this book. And since the point of learning is to understand the world around us better and appreciate its beauty and challenges more, it’s our job as leaders to use what we’ve learned to improve our world. We’re concluding by summarizing the steps we as leaders can take to improve our leadership—and subsequently the health and wellness of the public we serve.