From Clinician To Manager—Rethinking Best Practice

Where are all those great clinical professionals with emotional intelligence, great people management skills, business acumen, and a strategic enterprise perspective?

That is a trick question. Finding those team members is a key success factor for health and human service organizations. While it is possible to fill many positions in health and human service organizations with executives without a clinical background, leadership with a deep clinical understanding is more important now than ever.

What has changed? I think two mega-trends have changed the leadership landscape for the field—the rapid pace of scientific advancement resulting in new treatment options . . .