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June 13, 2026
The CliftonStrengths Assessment: Playing to Your Strengths in Academic Medicine
How the CliftonStrengths assessment helps physician leaders in academic medicine identify their natural talents and build a more intentional career.
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June 10, 2026
The Leadership Lessons of Remember the Titans
How Coach Boone's approach to building a unified team from divided factions mirrors the challenge of building cohesive medical teams across departments, specialties, and generations.
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June 3, 2026
What to Look for in an Executive Coach
A practical guide to evaluating coaches — credentials, coaching style, chemistry, and red flags to watch for when choosing an executive coach in academic medicine.
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May 30, 2026
Why the Best Physicians Are Coachable
What it means to be coachable, why top performers embrace coaching, and how a coachable mindset accelerates growth in academic medicine.
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May 27, 2026
The MBTI and Academic Medicine: Useful or Overrated?
A balanced look at the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator — what it can and can't tell you about your work style, communication preferences, and leadership approach in academic medicine.
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May 23, 2026
Moneyball and the Metrics That Matter in Academic Medicine
Using the Moneyball story to explore how academic medicine often measures the wrong things — and what metrics actually predict faculty success and satisfaction.
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May 20, 2026
The Hidden Curriculum of Academic Medicine
The unwritten rules nobody teaches you — from committee politics to email etiquette to how decisions really get made.
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May 13, 2026
Is the Physician-Scientist an Endangered Species?
The shrinking pipeline of physician-scientists and what it means for the future of academic medicine.
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May 9, 2026
Radical Candor — Review for Academic Medicine
Kim Scott's framework for caring personally while challenging directly — and why most physician leaders default to ruinous empathy.
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May 6, 2026
Should Academic Physicians Be on Social Media?
The case for (and against) building a professional social media presence — and how to do it without losing your mind.
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May 2, 2026
Friday Night Lights and Performing Under Impossible Pressure
Coach Gaines's 'perfect' speech and the weight of a community's expectations — and what it teaches about physician leaders carrying institutional pressure.
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April 29, 2026
When Is the Right Time to Start Coaching?
The answer is almost always 'sooner than you think' — but here are the specific inflection points when coaching has the highest ROI.
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