Leaders for Tomorrow

Recently, I was asked what I thought would be the skills required to be a successful health care leader in the future.  My take was that these same skills can be applied today as well as tomorrow and they are as follows:

• Embrace change
• Be a visionary
• Use common sense
• Surround yourself with the best
• Be flexible
• Be willing to adapt easily
• Be an effective communicator; most importantly, LISTEN
• Use your early adopter physicians to your advantage as you work to build a value- based care delivery model
• Encourage a learning environment by making sure that your staff understand what it is that you are doing and why you are doing it; you can't teach or communicate this enough
• Be tech savvy
• Lastly, and most importantly, act with integrity.