US Registered &🇱🇧 Licensed Dietitian AUBMC (LOD#306)Critical Care Units.
Executive Board Committee Member at Lebanese Order of Dietitians,Chair of PR&Communication Committee
ASPEN Clinical Practice Committee Member
“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Measurement is only useful when it guides you and adds context to a larger picture, not when it consumes you. Each number is simply one piece of feedback in the overall system.
From "Atomic Habits" by James Clear#finance#banking#monetary#management#atomichabits
[43/365] Great men, greater systems.
🇸🇬 Singapore has been blessed with many notable leaders since its independence. Their names adorn our annals: Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Keng Swee, S Rajaratnam being only a few. They left indelible marks on our progression as a nation, and we are the better for them.
💪 Across space and time, such leaders are also easily identified: Raffles, Columbus, MLK, Churchill, Gandhi, etc. Their achievements seem to strengthen the "Great Man Theory".
While never empirically validated, the theory posits that leaders are born with specific traits that are hard to replicate, and are popular amongst some people (see https://lnkd.in/gVt4u5r7 for an overview).
Although fading in popularity, we can still detect its influence from how business leaders are placed upon proverbial pedestals: Jobs, Gates, Musk, Bezos, etc.
Dr Wee's passing got me thinking about how any great leader would describe their legacy.
Would they claim to be the leader from whom wisdom, courage, discernment and decisiveness flows?
Or perhaps they built teams and systems greater than what they could have achieved by themselves?
I am a firm believer that a leader's greatest challenge, and accomplishment, is to build systems that would render themselves redundant - when a specific person's exit from the organisation does not adversely affect the work to be done.
We should all plan for our eventual exit, and the best way to do so is to build systems greater than ourselves.
US Registered &🇱🇧 Licensed Dietitian AUBMC (LOD#306)Critical Care Units. Executive Board Committee Member at Lebanese Order of Dietitians,Chair of PR&Communication Committee ASPEN Clinical Practice Committee Member
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