The only hope for ongoing vitality in an organization is the willingness of a great many people scattered throughout the organization to take the initiative in identifying problems and solving them. Without this, the organization becomes inert, maladaptive, and descends into entropy. When leaders demonstrate, by their words and actions, that they truly believe that everyone in the organization is capable of taking on leadership activities, the organization and its people thrive and survive.

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Leadership principles: lessons learned.

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Leadership: when success leads to failure.

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The people side of transformations.

All leaders in health care today are charged with the responsibility of transforming present practices into new and different ones that are needed for the future. The structural side of transforming is ultimately easier than the human side. However, the most frequent failures come from not concentrating sufficiently on the behavioral side of the change. Structural and psychological change must occur simultaneously and embrace each other for best results.

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On leadership. The people side of transformations.

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Leading change is leading creativity.

Leadership is the leading of creativity which leads to creative change. To innovate or die is the question that faces our health care future. It is no longer enough for us to operate with just our serial, mathematical thinking. We must also be concerned about the spirit and the heart and how we integrate this into whole brain thinking. The challenge for us is to constantly transform and rewire our brains through the creativity process and to rewire the processes of the places where we work. We know that we can cultivate and energize our organizations through the interplay of serial, parallel, and quantum thinking processes. But we can't wait. Health care and the world of nursing are changing rapidly. We need the creative processes to build the change needed for the future for the care of our patients.

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Management is taught, leadership is learned.

Management can be taught. Leadership must be experienced to be learned. The great leaders have evolved their abilities through on-the-job experiences that prepare them to lead by a variety of successes and failures. The quicker you get started on this journey to leadership, the more time you will have to build a legacy of positive outcomes. The patient care unit manager is a very valuable person. However, we need many more leaders who can think out of traditional boxes, lead people enthusiastically into the new world of health care, and transform our profession and the health care system to more effectively meet the health needs of our society. The best we can do is to empower people to start this journey of leadership early and seriously in their careers.

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The strategic use of humility.

Authentic humility is strategic for the success of leaders. It is strategic from the perspective of the egotistically free relationship humility establishes with the staff, patients, and others. The lack of strategic humility explains the inevitable downfall of people who are motivated to lead by power and status. It also explains why leaders who always remember where they came from, and who are motivated by what they can do for patients and staff, succeed.

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