As leaders, we are often expected to have all the answers. If we don't, we risk dark mutterings about being "overpaid", about being "the reason people actually doing the work are struggling", or "the reason nothing ever gets done around here." Across sectors, people hate leaders. The NHS and UK social care, currently at the centre of political focus for reform, is littered with very public derision of "money being wasted on pointless leadership roles, rather than frontline services." I've worked in a healthcare transformation leadership role, and...I'd be very wary of doing so again, purely because of the attitudes from clinical staff, including their own operational leads. I was actually well-liked by these colleagues as a person, but even that regard couldn't get past the disdain my team, and what they represented, were held in. People don't like change, and they really don't like change leaders. The reason why ch...
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