Li Lian Liew’s Post

I agree with this. Firstly: If you have a management team of 7, and the CEO calls all the shots, then you’re only using one brain. Why not harness all 7? Furthermore, I’d hate to train people to be helpless and passive aggressive. Secondly: What’s the point of hiring a diverse powerful team if they don’t get to flex their brains? What people fear is usually conflict - but conflict is healthy when it is respectful, professional and is about people battling the issue together, not trying to murder one another. I’m not asking them to be best friends outside work. I’m asking them to behave like a dynamic hive, and to be able to take charge where they are strong, and follow a peer’s strength where they are weak. And finally: I’m hiring for brains, not hours clocked. Problem-solving, care system-building, sustaining operations all do not come from packing their hours with tasks and feeling like just spending those hours is all there is. The real effective work comes from brain-time, then task-time to apply and translate that into something balanced. The wicked problems of healthcare are such a playground for people who like this kind of thing.