Over the past decades, a number of leadership theories emerged, looking at the leadership from various perspectives including but not limited to: power or influence of the leader over the team of followers, the situational influence over the leadership styles, or the requirements of newer, multi-agency team structures. (Barr & Dowding, 2012) In this paper, a promising young leader from the field of healthcare leadership was selected, and interviewed; the resulted interview data was analysed using current leadership theories.
The Leader
The leader selected is Dr. Robert Hamilton, a urologic-oncology surgeon with expertise in minimally invasive surgeries and a medical researcher; the epidemiology of urological malignancies and biomarkers predicting risk and progression of these diseases represent his research interests. (University Health Network [UHN], 2015) Hamilton’s is a staff physician at UHN, in the Department of Surgical Oncology Urology, Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto (University of Toronto [UofT], 2014), and member of the UHN Research Ethics Board. (UHN, 2014)
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Hamilton as my interviewee because he is an inspiration to me: he has numerous academic accomplishments (medical school, residency, Masters of Public Health, and fellowships), but also considerable accomplishments in other domains, demonstrating strong leadership skills. Despite his young age, he has been successfully managing his clinical practice for the past 3 years; he has already demonstrated clinical leadership in the field of oncology (testicular and prostate cancer) by leading cutting edge research in the areas of cancer prevention. (UofT, 2012) He received numerous awards for his work, including but not limited to: Movember Discovery Grant for work in the area of personalized chemoprevention (Prostate Cancer Canada, 2013) and the Canadian Cancer Society Career Development Award in Prevention. (Canadian Cancer Society ,
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There are good and bad leaders in every organization. This can be due to a lack of experiences, personality, or multiple other factors. If the reason a leader is not considered a good leader due to a lack of experience they can easily understand the techniques being used by the leaders around them. To know what is working for them, and what is not can be a huge advantage as a new leader begins their career. If their personality is the reason for their bad leadership, this can also be changed. It takes a lot of time and effort by the bad leader to change their personality to work with those around them. However, there are some personality traits that cannot be changed, due to their past of how the leader was raised. This paper will look at two leaders in the healthcare field, one considered a bad leader and the other considered a good leader. They are a two different stages in their careers which helps contribute to the bad and good leader titles. Their names have been changed for anonymity.
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