Medworld has become a technology business.
I, on the other hand, have not become a technologist!
I’m a doctor, with good experience in business, but my solution to most technology challenges is to turn the machine off and on and hope for the best.
So how can I lead a technology business?
Firstly, I have to deeply know the space we are in, namely how doctors live and work.
And secondly, I have to ask better questions of my technologists to help them get the best from themselves.
Confidence must not be blind; we must know when making it up is OK, and when it absolutely is not.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.