From closing knowledge gaps in finance and AI to building emotional intelligence and peer communities, the future of healthcare demands bilingual leaders fluent in both medicine and strategy.

AAPL believes physician leaders who are pursuing leadership education and training — and the organizations that are supporting their effort — should be able to clearly see the value of their time, money, and effort.

If you’re looking to develop particular EI strengths, it helps to consider areas for improvement others have identified along with the goals you want to achieve — and then to actively build habits in those areas rather than simply relying on understa...

This article introduces a physician-specific ethical leadership framework to address challenges like AI, clinician burnout, and financial pressures. It highlights learnable behaviors to foster integrity in healthcare.

The Physician Leadership Journal (PLJ), the flagship publication of the American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL), has been reimagined to address the evolving challenges of healthcare and physician leadership.

As AI automates more routine work, organizations are losing the everyday experiences that once helped employees develop judgment, pattern recognition, and leadership instincts. To close the gap, companies must redesign mentoring for the AI era.

After years of cheap capital, many companies drifted away from managing for shareholder value in favor of loosely defined stakeholder models. Now capital costs are moving back toward historical norms, and value maximization should once again guide de...

Misconduct at work is often treated as a simple problem, yet research shows it is anything but. Drawing on more than 250 studies, Michael J. Gill of the University of Oxford finds that employees break rules for a wide range of reasons, including pers...

Many organizations use tools like RACI to clarify who should provide input on decisions, who should make them, and who should carry them out. But in practice these frameworks often fail because teams don’t apply them properly.

As medicine increasingly relies on algorithms and data, genuine healing still depends on human connection. Preserving humanity in healthcare amid artificial intelligence calls for humility, curiosity, grit, and remembering that every patient has a st...

Music listening in the workplace is an inherently ambiguous behavior that triggers specific social judgments from colleagues. When coworkers attribute a person’s music use to leisure or personal enjoyment rather than a tool for productivity, they per...

Impostor syndrome affects physicians with self-doubt despite competence, driven by perfectionism and cultural norms. Balancing humility and excellence worsens it, but mentorship and psychological safety can help.