Blog
August 1, 2025
Remember the Titans: Leading a Diverse Team Through Resistance
How Coach Boone's approach to leading a divided team — setting clear expectations, refusing to lower standards, building shared identity — applies to leading diverse teams in academic medicine.
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July 31, 2025
Asking for Help Is Not a Weakness
The culture of self-sufficiency in medicine makes asking for help feel like failure. Here's why it's actually a sign of strength.
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July 30, 2025
Coaching vs. Mentoring vs. Consulting: What's the Difference?
A clear breakdown of how coaching, mentoring, and consulting differ — and when each one is the right choice for a physician in academic medicine.
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July 30, 2025
Why High Achievers Resist Coaching
The paradox that the people who benefit most from coaching are often the most skeptical of it.
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July 29, 2025
Leading Through Institutional Uncertainty
How to lead your team when the institution itself is in flux — mergers, leadership turnover, budget cuts, reorganizations. What your team needs from you when nobody has answers.
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July 29, 2025
The EQ-i 2.0: Measuring Emotional Intelligence for Physician Leaders
An overview of the EQ-i 2.0 emotional intelligence assessment — what it measures, how it differs from personality tests, and why it's particularly useful for physicians moving into leadership roles.
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July 27, 2025
Man's Search for Meaning — Review for Academic Medicine
Viktor Frankl's classic on finding meaning in suffering, reviewed through the lens of physician identity and purpose — why this book resonates deeply with physicians navigating burnout and career uncertainty.
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July 26, 2025
When Your Research Agenda Stalls
What to do when your research program hits a wall — unfunded grants, rejected papers, shifting priorities. Practical steps to reboot without starting over.
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July 26, 2025
Understanding Your DISC Profile as a Physician Leader
How the DISC behavioral assessment helps physician leaders understand their communication style and adapt to their teams.
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July 25, 2025
Moneyball: Building a Team from Overlooked Talent
How the Moneyball approach of valuing underappreciated skills applies to building academic medicine teams — looking beyond pedigree and traditional metrics to find hidden contributors.
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July 25, 2025
The Generational Divide in Academic Medicine
How different generational expectations around work, hierarchy, and career progression are creating friction in academic departments — and what leaders can do about it.
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July 23, 2025
Understanding Your Conflict Style — The Thomas-Kilmann Instrument
How knowing your default conflict style (competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding, accommodating) can improve your professional relationships.
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