Welcome to my first Pharmacy
Leadership Blog Post. It may be ironic that I am writing this on my iPAD
using a Wi-Fi hot spot since I went through Pharmacy School (late sixties)
using a slide rule. The first
calculator I bought cost close to $300 and only added, subtracted, multiplied
and divided and now when the battery runs out I throw it away. The first personal computer I had in the
eighties was an Apple IIe, which I just saw in a Computer History Museum. Ok so
I have been around awhile. The leadership point is you can do anything you put your mind to and never be afraid to
learn as you go.
Now that the Pharmacy Leadership Field Guide (ASHP) is
published, I have time to contribute in a new way. My purpose with this blog is to share information regarding
leadership, develop an interactive dialog with pharmacy leaders and build a
pharmacy leadership community where we help each other. Leadership can feel lonely. Oftentimes, it can seem like you are
the only one who can’t resolve a problem or challenge. As we have found with the close to 300
graduates of the Pharmacy Leadership Academy there is strength and benefit from
sharing with colleagues.
Since I am retired from my over 40 years of leadership
experience at the University of Kansas Medical Center and Stanford Hospital and
Clinics, I now have time to read widely and plan to share with you ideas you
might consider in your leadership.
As a Director, I had the best plans of reading the Harvard Business
Review but the reality was if I was going to have any personal life I never got
around to reading it. I do not
intend these reviews to be complete but concise to stimulate your thinking and
respect your limited time.
I hope you will comment and share your thoughts even if they
challenge mine as that is how we will all grow and develop as leaders. I am probably going to start slow and
only post once or twice a week in the beginning because from what I have read
(Blogging for Dummies) having it ongoing is critical to the success of a blog. By
the way, once you get over the “for Dummies” these books are great when you
don’t know much about a topic and want a “how to approach” (Leadership Brain,
Motivating Employees, Conflict Resolution at Work, etc). I used them when I
retired because I have always felt highly scientifically trained with my seven
years of higher education, but not well educated per the humanities so topics
like classical music, opera, jazz, art, etc have been great. Just to digress a tad the other source
of information is the Teaching Company, which sells college level courses via
CD/DVDs. www.teach12.com. They are
great for your exercise time.
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