Do you have your strengths, or do your strengths have you?
Michael Watkins teaches that what got you where you are won’t necessarily serve you there. “Success often requires us to stop doing some things we’ve been doing and to embrace new competencies.”
The surgeon leader who tells herself, “To meet expectations, I must do more, do it better, and do it more intensely.” The physician who can’t figure out why he’s so exhausted as he’s supervising 25 direct reports, responsible for implementing policy changes from above, attending to nearly a full panel size, and fathering three young children. Or the radiologist who’s been promoted to a leadership position and feels like a fish out of water.
You may be required to lift your nose from the grindstone and look around. The dogged determination that got you through residency might have you on a gerbil wheel to nowhere but burnout.
Decades of technical development can lead to neglected adaptive development. Fern EPC is the fast track to Adaptive Development.
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