Physician Leadership Program

The Dermatology Physician Leadership Program provides a variety of leadership offerings for residents, fellows, and junior faculty:

  • Town Hall Leadership Lectures (2-3 per year, available to entire department)
  • Resident Leadership Lectures (2-3 per year, available to residents)
  • Leadership Round Tables (6 per year, available to residents, fellows and junior faculty)
  • Leadership Rotation (1 month elective, available to 2nd & 3rd year residents)

Leadership Round Table Curriculum

Round Table moderators are welcome to use the following suggested leadership topics and/or resources or choose a leadership topic/resource of their preference. The books, articles and TED talks listed below are all available to Dermatology faculty and residents.

Topics Related Articles/Books
Giving and Receiving Feedback/Conflict Management “The Hazards of a ‘Nice’ Company Culture” (Timothy Clark), Harvard Business Review.
Change Management "Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions" (John Kotter)
"ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Community" (Jeffrey Hiatt)
Ted Business Podcast - "Why The Strongest Leaders Ask For Help" with Lorna Davis
Imposter Syndrome "Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome" (Tulshyan and Burey), Harvard Business Review.
Ted Talk - "How you can use imposter syndrome to your benefit"
The Physician-Administrator Divide "Driving the Nitroglycerin Truck" (Jeff Goldsmith), HealthCare Forum Journal
Strategy Development "Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy" (Joan Magretta)
Building Trust "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" (Patrick Lencioni)
  Ted Talk - "Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe" (Simon Sinek)
Leading for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion/Understanding Implicit Bias "Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders" (Eagly and Carli) 
  "My Own Words" (Ruth Bader Ginsberg)
Leading for Wellbeing HBR Podcast - "Quit Overthinking Things" with Ethan Kross
Quality Improvement/Project Management "Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want" (Carlson and Wilmot)
  "Organizing for Success" (Kenneth Ziegler)
Public Speaking/Presenting Harvard Business Review’s 10 Must Reads on Public Speaking and Presenting
  Ted Talk - "Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are" with Amy Cuddy
  "Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds" (Carmine Gallo)
Collaboration & Conversation "Leadership Is a Conversation" (Groysberg & Slind) Harvard Business Reviews's 10 Must Reads on Leadership, Vol. 2.
Levels of Leadership "Thinking Fast and Slow" (Kanerman, Daniel)
  "First, Break all the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently" (Buckingham and Coffman)
  "Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck - Why Some Thrive Despite Them All" (Collins and Hansen)
  "Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization" (Logan, King, Fischer-Wright)
  "When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing" (Daniel Pink)
Background Reading/History of Leadership "How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In" (Jim Collins)
  "Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company" (Andrew Grove)
  "If Disney Ran Your Hospital: 9-1/2 Things You Would Do Differently" (Fred Lee)
  "The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture & Drive Long-Term Growth" (Eric Ries)
Effective Leadership  "Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ" (Daniel Goleman)
  "The Versatile Leader: Make the Most of Your Strengths Without Overdoing It" (Kaplan and Kaiser)
  "An Epidemic of Empathy in Healthcare: How to Deliver Compassionate, Connected Patient Care that Creates a Competitive Advantage" (Thomas Lee)
  "Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable" (Patrick Lencioni)
  "Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative" (Austin Kleon)
  "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less"  (Greg MeKeown)
  "StrengthsFinder 2.0" (Tom Rath)

Leadership Library

The Department of Dermatology has digital and physical leadership learning resources available to its faculty, residents, staff and students. The physical library items are located in the 1 S Park Dermatology Administrative Offices Conference Room.

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Dermatology Physician Leadership Program Library of Resources

Buckingham M and Coffman C. First, Break all the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently. Gallup/Simon & Schuster: 2016.

Cannon-Brookes M. “How You Can Use Imposter Syndrome to Your Benefit”. TED Talk June 2017. https://www.ted.com/talks/mike_cannon_brookes_how_you_can_use_impostor_syndrome_to_your_benefit?language=en

Carlson CR and Wilmot WW. Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want. Crown Business: 2006.

Clark T. “The Hazards of a ‘Nice’ Company Culture.” Epub June 25 2021. https://hbr.org/2021/06/the-hazards-of-a-nice-company-culture

Collins J. How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In. JimCollins: 2009.

Collins J and Hansen M. Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All. Harper Business: 2011.

Cuddy A. “Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are”. TED Talk June 2012. https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_may_shape_who_you_are?language=en

Davis L. “Why the Strongest Leaders Ask for Help”. TED Business Podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-the-strongest-leaders-ask-for-help-with-lorna-davis/id470622782?i=1000494476410

Eagly A. and Carli L. Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders. Harvard Business School Press: 2007.

Gallo C. Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds. St. Martin’s Press: 2015.

Ginsberg RB. My Own Words. Simon & Schuster: 2018.

Goldsmith JC. “Driving the Nitroglycerin Truck”. HealthCare Forum Journal. March/April 1993: 36-44.

Goleman D. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. Random House: 2005.

Grove AS. Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company. Currency: 1999.

Harvard Business Review, Goleman D, Watkins M, Ibarra H, and Porter M. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership, Vol. 2. Harvard Business Review: 2020. Epub. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/wisc/reader.action?docID=5829594&query=HBR%27s+10+Must+Reads

Harvard Business Review, Anderson C, Cuddy AJC, Duarte N, and Ibarra H. Harvard Business Review’s 10 Must Reads on Public Speaking and Presenting. Harvard Business Review: 2020. Epub. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/wisc/reader.action?docID=5829114&ppg=16

Harvard Business Review. “Quit Overthinking Things”. HBR IdeaCast April 2021.  https://hbr.org/podcast/2021/04/quit-overthinking-things

Kaplan B and Kaiser R. The Versatile Leader: Make the Most of Your Strengths Without Overdoing It. Pfeiffer: 2006.

Lee F. If Disney Ran Your Hospital: 9-1/2 Things You Would Do Differently. Second River Healthcare: 2004.

Lee T. An Epidemic of Empathy in Healthcare: How to Deliver Compassionate, Connected Patient Care that Creates a Competitive Advantage. McGraw-Hill Education: 2015.

Lencioni P. Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable. Jossey-Bass: 2004.

Lencioni P. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Jossey-Bass: 2002.

Logan D, King J, and Fischer-Wright H. Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization. Harper Business: 2011.

Kleon A. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative. Workman: 2012.

Magretta J. Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy. Harvard Business Review: 2011.

McKeown G. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. Crown Business: 2020.

Pink DH. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. Riverhead Books: 2019.

Rath T. StrengthsFinder 2.0. Gallup Press: 2007.

Ries E. The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture & Drive Long-Term Growth. Currency: 2017.

Sinek S. “Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe”.  TED Talk March 2014. https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_why_good_leaders_make_you_feel_safe

Tulshyan R and Burey JA. “Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome”. Harvard Business Review. Epub Feb 11, 2021. https://hbr.org/2021/02/stop-telling-women-they-have-imposter-syndrome

Ziegler K. Organizing for Success. McGraw-Hill: 2005.