Chapter 1 Introduction—Resilience in Healthcare Leadership
The COVID-19 pandemic has been an ultimate challenge for leadership resiliency. Resilient leaders are thoughtful and deliberate. They balance logic and emotion, ego, and humility. They lead through compassionate empathy by focusing on the “how,” not only the “what.” They use their influence to drive positive change, diversity, and inclusion, and create an equitable community.
Most books on resilient leadership appear to focus on spirituality and tools to grow an “unshakable core of calm, strength, and happiness” (Hanson, 2018) or “bounce back without getting stuck in the toxic emotions of guilt, false guilt, anger, and bitterness” (Dees, 2013). These books ...
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