Why have a lightbulb moment when you can have a floodlit one? Picture it. You’re out after dark. Somewhere a switch is flicked, a floodlight comes on, and your view suddenly changes. Then another lights up, and another. How you thought the world looked is now completely different. We talk about lightbulb moments: that sudden […]
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Bearing Witness – a new digital campaign connects healthcare workers in the UK with their peers in Humanitarian Disasters by Hesham Abdalla
Humanitarian disasters seem pervasive in the news, with Afghanistan being only the latest in a long list of devastating events. When reading and watching accounts of these crises however, I often find myself swiping past them, shutting out the victims’ pain that would otherwise be overwhelming. The stress is particularly acute amongst Healthcare professionals working […]
My experience as a Hexitime ambassador by Myra Malik
This is the second blog in a series about timebanking. You can read the first blog here. In the midst of a global pandemic where life has been turned upside down, where we have our own worries and concerns, there has been an outpouring of understanding of just how interconnected we are as individuals in […]
Three lessons by Dipit Sahu
Three lessons to be remembered from the second wave as we unlock in India: COVID-appropriate norms will be soon forgotten, leadership by city administrators can make a big difference, and the virus will never leave us until everyone is immune The second COVID-19 wave in India was a significant learning experience about the Indian population’s […]
‘Magical Meander’: Walking the tightrope…
This is the eighth part of the BMJ Leader blog series written anonymously by “Magical Meander”, a medical manager working in the NHS, to help align perspectives and build understanding of medical management across these two professions. As with so many management decisions, there isn’t really a bible to tell you what to do. Instead experience […]
Heroes and kryptonite by Katrina Sheikh and Partha Kar
Challenging the narrative Leadership has always had an odd aura around it- the vision of the hero standing tall, protecting the rest, putting themselves at risk- yet never quite being seen to be fallible. It’s the pictures that are created in our mind which form the narrative- whether it be history, popular culture or indeed […]
Adult Development Theory: growing medical leadership capability in response to a metamodern cultural pandemic by Fiona Day
None of us can envisage how the complex adaptive system of planet Earth and its ecosystems will develop over time, but one thing is certain – that our planet, and the human societies, animals and plants which inhabit it – will change in ways which are unknown and unknowable. The dominant cultural paradigms which have […]
Metamodernism- are you ready for a cultural pandemic? by Fiona Day
None of us can envisage how the complex adaptive system of planet Earth and its ecosystems will develop over time, but one thing is certain – that our planet, and the human societies, animals and plants which inhabit it – will change in ways which are unknown and unknowable. The dominant cultural paradigms which have […]
How timebanking helps you to improve quality of care by Hesham Abdalla
The first time you experience the NHS as a patient or a carer you realise that a single national health service is no more than a beguiling myth. In fact, it is a health and care system that is as fractured and discontinuous as any other in the world. For me, this became distressingly obvious […]
What the Covid-19 pandemic taught me about our human coexistence by Jamiu O. Busari
The Covid 19 pandemic has taught us several lessons. One of them is the importance and need for (harmonious) co-existence among human beings. The pandemic showed that human beings are resilient. It revealed our collective strength and generosity of heart, while at the same time exposing our limitations and vulnerabilities. While we saw extraordinary acts […]