Abstract

The first leadership emerged simultaneously at the time when humans started forming groups to fight against a common threat or to attain means of survival for food, shelter, and safety. Authors have tried to define, understand, and apply the context of leadership in different social, cultural, political, organizational, and religious setups. This article will describe three aspects of leadership to encompass comprehensive traits of strong leadership in a particular reference to any multidisciplinary intensive care units (ICUs) in a tertiary care hospital.

Highlights

  • IntroductionThe history of leadership was never written since the origin of mankind. Humanity has witnessed all sorts of leaders from authoritarian to servant-ship in forms of tribal leaders, emperors, invaders, dynasties, democratically elected, and other various types

  • BackgroundThe history of leadership was never written since the origin of mankind

  • Good leadership is vital for intensive care units (ICUs) in any healthcare system

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Summary

Introduction

The history of leadership was never written since the origin of mankind. Humanity has witnessed all sorts of leaders from authoritarian to servant-ship in forms of tribal leaders, emperors, invaders, dynasties, democratically elected, and other various types. He continuously balances the components of values and actions He constantly juggles between providing frameworks, guidelines, ethics, context, adapting to challenges, and having direct involvement. When a leader speaks of ethics, it encompasses mission, vision, governance, and leadership itself [5] He defines the boundaries of an ethical framework for everyday work and duties of the team members, quality of the organization, due processes, fairness during conflicts, and use of resources [6]. It can be via many strategies like defining the team's boundaries of responsibility, delegation, avoiding abdication, periodic debriefing, and updates, managing outcomes but not processes, coaching, encouraging peer-to-peer empowerment, setting specific and measurable goals, and respecting the chain of commands [15] His framework provides a bigger picture with the prioritization of truly important targets. It is all about three Ts - transparency, truth, and trust [45]

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Northouse PG: Leadership

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