Growth Edge Leadership Newsletter
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.
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Rethinking Resilience: What Leaders Get Wrong About Burnout with author Paula Davis
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...
Mar 30, 2026
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Failure Isn't the Problem. Wasted Failure Is.
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’...
Mar 25, 2026
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The Discipline of Self-Awareness Why Humility, Not Ego, Sustains Leadership Performance.
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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Mar 11, 2026
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Mentor Early, Mentor Often: The Compounding Advantage Leaders Overlook
Most leaders don’t resist mentorship because they doubt its value.
They resist it because they think it’s something you do later.
Later, when they’re more experienced.Later, when they’re more confident.Later, when they’ve “earned” the right to ask for someone’s time.
That belief quietl...
Feb 18, 2026
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Mentorship vs. Sponsorship: If You Don’t Know the Difference, You’re Limiting Growth.
Mentorship and sponsorship are often used interchangeably.
They shouldn’t be.
While both are essential to leadership development and career progression, they serve very different purposes. And when leaders misunderstand or collapse the distinction, growth stalls in ways that are often invi...
Feb 11, 2026
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Mentorship Is Not a Nice-to-Have. It’s a Performance Strategy.
Mentorship is often talked about as a generous act. A “good leader” behavior. Something nice to do when you have time.
That framing sells it short.
Mentorship isn’t a soft extra layered on top of “real work.” It is real work. And when done well, it’s a powerful performance strategy; for ...
Feb 04, 2026
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No is a Full Sentence: How to Decline Without Guilt
If you’ve ever felt stretched thin, overcommitted, or quietly resentful, chances are your calendar isn’t the problem, your boundaries are.
Most leaders I coach aren’t struggling because they’re incapable or undisciplined. They’re struggling because they say yes too often or without thinkin...
Jan 20, 2026
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Why the Future Belongs to Human-Centered Leaders
Think back to a leader who truly left a mark on you.
Chances are, it wasn’t their credentials or efficiency you remember. It was likely how they made you feel. Seen. Supported. Valued.
After more than two decades of working alongside leaders in medicine, business, and beyond, I can tel...
Jan 13, 2026
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Looking Forward: The Power of a Fresh Start
Happy New Year, friends!
Turning the page into a new year is a powerful time, not because everything seems to reset, but because we get to choose how we begin again. A fresh start invites us to pause and approach our work and leadership with greater clarity about what we’re aiming for and ...
Jan 06, 2026
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Leading into 2026: The Power of Reflection for Growth and Renewal
For some, these days between Christmas and the New Year bring a rare pause, a quiet stretch of time to rest, reset, and look back. For others, it’s another week of answering the call, caring for patients, leading teams, keeping essential systems moving.
Wherever this week finds you, reflectio...
Dec 30, 2025
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The Gift of Presence: Why Slowing Down Is the Most Generous Act of Leadership
As leaders, we’re made for motion. We plan, we produce, we perform. But as the year winds down, something else calls for our attention: people.
Long after the deadlines fade and the goals are checked off, what lingers isn’t what we did, but rather how we made people feel.
I believe that pre...
Dec 23, 2025
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Engage, Energize, Elevate: The Leader’s Guide to Meaningful Feedback
“Am I on the right track?”“Was that what you were hoping for?”“How can I improve next time?”
You’ve probably heard these questions from your team, or maybe you’ve even asked them yourself.
Employees crave feedback. They want to know where they stand, how they can grow, and whether their wor...
Dec 16, 2025
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