What’s Your Leadership Strategy?

Strategy. I’ve been thinking a lot about the many “strategies” that health and human service organizations need to employ. Business strategies, tech strategies, human resource strategies, managed care strategies, merger and acquisition strategies – all must fit together into an overall strategy and are important pieces for governing your organization’s path to the future. But during strategic meetings, there is one strategy that isn’t often discussed – leadership.

If you think that leadership isn’t the kind of thing that can be a focus of strategy, you’re partially right. The personal aspect of leadership (the lack of which . . .