5/2/2023 Let me ask you a question: have you ever made a New Year’s resolution? We probably all have. If we follow the statistics, it is very likely that we did not keep that resolution either.
4/25/2023 While the Directional Leadership framework provides clarity on how we should lead, we must never lose sight of where leadership starts. Leadership always starts with the person staring back at us in the mirror! Today, we will look at the first of four principles that we can use to lead ourselves well.
4/18/2023 I don't know where you find yourself today, dear reader. But if you find yourself in a situation where you feel that you are being asked to do more with less, allow me to encourage you. You can become more. You absolutely can!
4/11/2023 When we met last, I ended by asking you a question. The question was, “Over the course of your career, do you find that leading others has become easier, more difficult or about the same?”
4/4/2023 Last time, I left you with a dilemma: in what direction do you lead if a patient leaves your pharmacy, transfers to another, but then returns to you?
3/28/2023 Are there times when we lead others from more than one direction? More specifically, when leading our patients, what direction are we leading? To me, or at least the me of several years ago, I would think it was leading down. However, now that I have spent some time examining directional leadership, and more specifically traced the line of authority, I do not believe that is the case.
3/14/2023 Over the last several weeks, we have looked at the various directions of directional leadership. That is all well and good, but what are you going to do with that information?
3/7/2023 Last week I told you about my "plan" to take the last Friday of each month for self-development and how somehow those Fridays just didn't work out as I had planned.
2/28/2023 When we talk about directional leadership, up, down and across pretty much covers it, doesn't it? Long-time readers will not be surprised when I tell you we have another direction of leadership to explore – the Fourth Direction of Leadership.
2/20/2023 Around 2008 I began learning about performance measures for pharmacy and I was enthralled. What an amazing concept! What if we could describe a way to determine how well a therapy serves a patient?
2/13/2023 You would think that leading down is the easiest form of leadership, and perhaps it is. But consider this: if it is supposed to be so easy, why is it so hard? Why is it so challenging?
1/31/2023 One of the most important ways we lead is by leading up. This is key for a number of reasons. Perhaps most notably, it is because when we lead up, we make life easier for our boss. And in turn, our boss can make life easier for us. And if you are serving on a team with others who have the same boss, life can improve for all of you!
