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October 15, 2025
Inside Out — Understanding Your Emotions as a Physician Leader
Pixar's Inside Out as a framework for understanding how emotions drive decisions — especially relevant for physician leaders who were trained to suppress feelings and lead with logic alone.
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October 14, 2025
Managing Up as a Physician Leader
How physician leaders can effectively manage their relationship with their dean, chair, or C-suite — communicating needs, building trust, and influencing upward without seeming political.
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October 13, 2025
Coachability and Career Longevity in Academic Medicine
Why the most coachable physicians tend to have the longest, most satisfying careers — the connection between willingness to grow and sustained professional vitality.
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October 12, 2025
Emotional Intelligence Assessments for Physicians
A guide to EQ assessments for physician leaders — EQ-i 2.0, MSCEIT, and 360-feedback tools. What they measure, how they compare, and why EQ data is often the most actionable coaching data you'll get.
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October 11, 2025
Hoosiers and the Power of Believing in Your Team
Coach Norman Dale's unconventional methods and what they teach about trust, fundamentals, and building confidence in your people.
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October 11, 2025
Generational Differences Among Academic Medicine Faculty
The generational dynamics playing out in departments — from Boomers who lived to work to Gen Z who work to live. How leaders can bridge these differences instead of dismissing them.
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October 10, 2025
Moneyball — Data-Driven Decisions in Academic Medicine
Billy Beane's revolution in baseball as a model for physician leaders challenging entrenched thinking — using evidence over tradition, asking better questions, and leading change against institutional resistance.
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October 9, 2025
Making the Most of Your Sabbatical in Academic Medicine
Sabbaticals are rare and precious in academic medicine. How to plan one that actually rejuvenates rather than becoming another overscheduled sprint.
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October 8, 2025
The Loneliness of Physician Leadership
Why leadership in academic medicine is isolating and what to do about it
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October 8, 2025
Giving Feedback That Physicians Don't Want to Hear
The framework for delivering hard feedback to physician colleagues — direct, specific, caring, and private. Why most leaders avoid it and what happens when they do.
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October 7, 2025
The Coachable Physician Asks Better Questions
The most important coaching skill isn't answering questions — it's learning to ask better ones. How coachable physicians transform their thinking.
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October 6, 2025
Quiet — Review for Academic Medicine
Susan Cain's Quiet reviewed for academic medicine — why introverted physician leaders are often the most effective.
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