The most effective leaders develop through a never-ending process of life- long learning, critical reflection, training, and experience. Being a leader also means willingness to listen and learn from others, having the flexibility to change and adapt with these experience. I believe that these qualities and characteristics can be learned and developed by me to shape my staff, departments and the system I work with into the next generation of great leaders.
“Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?”
― Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 1859
One of my favorite TPOVs about adaptive leadership is that adaptive leadership generates capacity not dependency, small wonder that I have such great admiration for Florence Nightingale she practiced adaptive leadership before it was defined. Little did I know 3 years ago when I began this journey that a quote I used from a nurse leader penned in 1859 would still speak volumes to the type of leader that I hold in great esteem and the type of leader I strive to be to be. Florence Nightingale was a servant leader, a leader of change, a practitioner of adaptive