Physician Leadership: What We Carry Forward
By Matt Kincaid, PhD
VP/Head of Coaching
The Referent Group
As a new year begins, it’s natural to think about what we want to add—new goals, new habits, new intentions. But it’s also worth asking what we’re carrying forward from the past year. Behaviors that quietly became habits. Assumptions that settled in without much notice. Moments we moved past quickly without fully realizing their impact.
Most of us are good at setting intentions. Fewer of us slow down long enough to examine what shaped them. What is driving our new resolutions? What made us more cautious—or more rigid? What went unchallenged simply because it worked well enough? What consumed a disproportionate amount of our time, and why?
Reflection isn’t nostalgia—it’s discernment. And discernment is what keeps experience from turning into blind repetition. Before adding anything new, it’s worth asking: What am I bringing with me into this next season—and should I? Growth doesn’t always require reinvention. Sometimes it simply asks us to decide, deliberately, what stays—and what gets left behind.
Leadership matters.
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