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The Circle of Safety and Physician Burnout

February 7, 2022 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

In his book, Leaders Eat Last — Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t, Simon Sinek discusses the importance of a safe work environment for innovation, productivity and survival. He calls this leader-driven space the Circle of Safety. It is easy to know when we are in the Circle of Safety because we can feel it. We feel valued by our colleagues and we feel ... Continue Reading about The Circle of Safety and Physician Burnout

Tagged With: Burnout, Leadership

Hospitals

Three Conditions That Define Healthcare

September 21, 2021 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 3 minutes

Since the pandemic healthcare has undergone a remarkable transformation. Before COVID dropped in as our latest wicked problem, technology was upending everything we do. I’ve been thinking a lot about the burnout, confusion, uncertainty, and exhaustion that we’re facing. I've been thinking about the conditions that define healthcare. When we talk about these ... Continue Reading about Three Conditions That Define Healthcare

Tagged With: Hospitals, Leadership, Uncertainty

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Thought Leaders and Thought Followers

August 14, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

Industry is keen on identifying experts with unique insight and capacity to influence. They write the map for the rest of us to follow. They’re called thought leaders. Alternatively there are thought followers. These are the folks who repeat, regurgitate, reshape and mimic thought leaders. Their association by sharing on the stage of Twitter can make them seem ... Continue Reading about Thought Leaders and Thought Followers

Tagged With: Authority, Big Thinking, Digital influence, Leadership

Physicians

Physician Authority and Influence Online

December 29, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

When I look on Twitter here's how I see physician authority and influence: Authority - These are the true leaders in medicine with deep knowledge, experience and credibility in their domain. These are the leaders among physicians. The power hitters. And not necessarily academics. Influence - Those with lots of followers or influence as determined by social ... Continue Reading about Physician Authority and Influence Online

Tagged With: Authority, Culture of Permission, Digital influence, Leadership

Physicians

Lockstep Medicine – Marching in Time with the Past

July 10, 2014 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

In medicine we are obsessed with lockstep medicine.... We idolize leadership but promote management. We marginalize vision while rewarding process. We worship list makers. We’re trained as responders not initiators. We propagate a culture of permission and seek to breed a generation precisely like the last. We believe that thought leadership and ... Continue Reading about Lockstep Medicine – Marching in Time with the Past

Tagged With: Culture of Permission, Freerange MD, Leadership

Physicians, Social/Public Media

Medical Leaders will Think Out Loud

April 10, 2014 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

The public space is where knowledge, information and conversation now collide.  It’s where we should be.  The evolution of our profession in a networked world must involve attention to how we think and share in the great wide open. In fact, the medical leaders of tomorrow will think out loud and trade in the currency of ideas. In fact, a defining feature of a ... Continue Reading about Medical Leaders will Think Out Loud

Tagged With: Leadership

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Bryan Vartabedian is a pediatrician at Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children’s Hospital and one of health care’s influential voices on technology & medicine.
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