Your Worst Leaders Can Be Your Best Teachers

This chapter describes how poor leaders can teach you valuable lessons. It discusses how a physician leader can use these experiences to improve their own leadership performance by observing and modifying the behavior. Specific examples are used which outline poor leadership behaviors and the chapter explores why these poor leadership behaviors can occur, and how to analyze these types of actions objectively to learn and develop one’s own leadership style and behaviors. A structured format is introduced which can be used to objectively assess the elements of a poor leadership decision or behavior to identify key elements that can be modified to make it successful.