Financial Literacy as a Leadership Imperative
Financial literacy stands as one of the most critical yet unevenly developed competencies among academic leaders in health professions education. In our professional development work at AAL, we regularly encounter both extremes: the department chair who has never seen...
The Harder Work of Leadership Development: Cultivating Purpose and Judgment
Most formal leadership programming focuses on developing competencies — from managing conflict to leading change. No doubt, effective leaders need an ever-growing set of knowledge and skills — tools and practical guidance on how to use them. But for many institutions,...
A Skeptic’s Observations on Leadership
Having just finished another article on leadership, I’m reminded of why I find most modern treatments of the subject uninspiring, uninformed, repetitive, and unoriginal. No matter what color the wrapping, inside the best books and articles on leadership is a similar...
Making Tough Career Choices: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both… Robert Frost Last year, during one of our large leadership programs, a participant asked me about a major career choice she faced. In this case, the choice involved leaving her organization and...
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