07 Top Leadership Teams: The Traits of Winning Leadership

Philip Betbeze, for HealthLeaders Magazine, December 13, 2007

Healthcare leans on its individuals. Superstar CEOs clog the speaker's circuit--some so often that you wonder who's really running those top-notch organizations behind the scenes.

Not so the HealthLeaders Media Top Leadership Teams winners for 2007. Such leaders are characterized by the fact that they are "ambitious for the organization, not for themselves," says Gordon Clark, former president and CEO of the Governance Institute, and a judge for the fourth annual contest. Winning leadership teams boast three basic characteristics, he says: They share a deep commitment to the organization and its mission, a sense of accountability, and a commitment to making results transparent not only when they're going well, but also when they're not.
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