The Growth Edge Leadership Newsletter offers concise, actionable leadership strategies for healthcare professionals. Delivered weekly, each issue features a short video, motivational insights, and expert resources, empowering you to enhance your leadership skills efficiently and effectively.
Psychological safety is not built in moments of ease. It is revealed, and reinforced, in moments of tension.
The week before last, I arrived a little early to a rural critical access hospital in the Midwest for a quarterly leadership development session.
As I walked into the room, the grou...
Grief is one of the few experiences in life that is both universal and inevitable. And yet, for something we will all encounter, either personally or through those we care about, it remains widely misunderstood.
In this week’s episode of the Growth Edge Leadership Podcast, I sat down with Dr. J...
We talk often in healthcare about systems, strategy, and performance. But one of the most powerful drivers of all three is often misunderstood, or overlooked entirely.
At a recent hospital board retreat in the South, I closed a Saturday keynote on leadership. As the session wrapped, a surg...
Most high-performing professionals don’t struggle with competence.
They struggle with connection.
Not because they lack relational ability, but because networking has been framed incorrectly, as something transactional, time-consuming, or self-promotional.
So they opt out.
They focus on exe...
In leadership, we often celebrate alignment, chemistry, and shared vision. We highlight the partnerships that “just work.” But what’s far less discussed, and far more instructive, is what happens when they don’t.
In a recent episode of The Curiosity Shop, two thought leaders that I admir...
Burnout continues to rise across high-demand professions, especially in healthcare, law, and other performance-driven environments. Yet many leadership approaches still treat it as an individual issue.
In this episode of The Growth Edge Leadership Podcast, Laurie Baedke sits down with Paula Dav...
Most leaders say they value learning.
Few have a system for it.
Especially when it comes to failure.
We:→ minimize it→ move past it→ or quietly carry it
But we rarely use it well.
And that’s the gap.
Failure isn’t what limits leadership performance.
Unprocessed failure is.
This week’...
There is a moment many high-performing professionals quietly encounter.
On paper, everything looks right. The credentials. The title. The trajectory. The years of disciplined effort have delivered exactly what was promised.
And yet, something feels off.
For many physicians and healthcare le...
High-performing leaders often share the same instinct when demands increase: work longer hours.
More meetings. More email. More late nights.
But the research is clear. This approach eventually backfires.
Time is finite.Energy is renewable.
In their well-known Harvard Business Revie...
Across healthcare and academic medicine, many leaders are navigating two demanding worlds simultaneously: the pursuit of scientific excellence and the realities of modern parenthood.
For women in research and academic medicine, this intersection often creates a quiet but powerful tension. Insti...
Leadership often asks more of us than skill alone can provide.
It asks for steadiness when outcomes are uncertain. It asks for courage when the path is unclear. It asks for humility when we would rather appear confident than admit we are still learning. And it asks for reflection in a world tha...
You don’t have to be loud to have an ego.
Even the most thoughtful, analytical, and measured leaders can quietly protect their assumptions, defend their decisions, or resist feedback.
Ego isn’t about personality.It’s about posture.
And humility is the discipline that keeps it in check.
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