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Management leadership has been a subject of great controversy for over a century.  Some have spent their lives in search of the most productive method to lead the masses.  We have run the gambit of the very tightest controls, such as timing bathroom breaks, to no control at all, allowing the employees to run the show.  Neither extreme has stood the test of time.  Because leadership will affect another person’s life forever, either negatively or positively, it should never be taken lightly. There are many great researchers who feel the same way:  Kurt Lewin, Douglas McGregor, Fred Emery, just to name a few.  A leader with the ability to help each employee mature into confident, contributing adults is a premium.  Leaders who are able to maintain their authority while instructing, training, encouraging and empowering are priceless.  Theory X/Theory Y, Immaturity/Maturity, Autocratic/Participative/Laissez-Faire, Authoritarian/Democratic are examples of important theories, models and principles. 

In the world of daily change, not much remains the same, and yet, stability is the hope of almost every employee.  Businesses are faced with leadership decisions continuously, many times because they are not able to efficiently evaluate and hire leaders that can lead people to maturity.  Today more than ever, we need leaders who not only know what they are doing, but who are willing to be lifelong students constantly learning new and effective ways to lead.

The patient’s health and well being has long been far from the center of the focus.  The only way for our system to truly be turned around is to bring the patient back to the center of the focus.  With the dollar sign at the center of our health care system, we are symbolic of a train headed downhill.  Unless actions are taken to drive the physicians back to value-based, positive-sum competition, our train will surely wreck.  This seems like such a monumental task as it must be enabled by each provider individually.  What do we do to motivate providers to this new, unselfish place?  What do we do to motivate providers to work together for the sole purpose of facilitating health to all those who are sick (while truly believing in the payback of a value-based system)?  A few people who are willing to say no more crossed purposes and publicly implement the value-based competition could change the world.  This is the challenge set before us.