As February sees the 2015 annual FMLM conference come and go, we hope that the FMLM membership, and indeed all those with an interest in leadership in literature, take time to look through what the Bookclub has to offer. As this month’s editors’ blog details (below), time is not always on our side. So we encourage you to take time to look around. With a general election on the horizon and the NHS on the edge of a privatization precipice, there is much to consider.
We welcome in the darker months with a bright new look. Our new surrounds are the second facelift that the Bookclub has been lucky to receive thanks to our Faculty overlords and the design team at Manta Ray Media.
Firstly, I would like to thank Anna and May (and Fiona in advance) for their hard work in reviewing for the FMLM Bookclub. Picking up momentum from the foundation of the FMLM itself, they have helped the Bookclub to develop into what I hope will be a valuable resource for members over the years to come. Our ultimate goal is still to create a library of précis and synopses of clinical leadership titles by reviewing one book every month in an interactive forum.
We are rolling on well into our second year, and the Bookclub continues to benefit from the enthusiasm of FMLM members and staff. The first review of the year by Colette Marshall was in May, exploring the potential legacies for Atul Gawande’s Checklist Manifesto. We are soon to be twice blessed by Jag Dhaliwal, who is planning to review The Innovator’s Prescription by Clayton Christiensen in June/July–we look forward to hearing about the sub-titular disruptive strategies.
There may have been one or two fallow months recently for the Bookclub, but we can now offer you a plentiful early harvest of low-hanging fruits after a cosmetic overhaul of the Bookclub section of the FMLM website, for which we must thank the FMLM office and our web design partners, Manta Ray Media. We have been extremely fortunate to have Veronica Wilkie review Clinical Leadership: Bridging the Divide with us, and are likewise graced by Jag Dhaliwal, who is just about to take us through Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People.
This is perhaps an odd exhortation given that it could conjure the notion of subservience between a Gentleman’s Gentleman and his Gentleman, but that would be an illusion. For anyone not familiar with Wodehouse’s marvellous duo, it is quite clear on introduction as to who is leading whom through their delightful escapades, and possibly a rather neat literary manifestation of ‘upside-down’ leadership as described in Fiona Pathiraja’s current review.
As this inaugural Bookclub forum review draws to its close, Christmas spirits are gleefully starting to rise, mainly in the form of home-made sloe gin infused with the recent dripping harvest from Saffron Walden's hedgerows! With this in mind, it is my pleasure to announce that next month’s FMLM Bookclub review will be lead by Anna Moore.
So here we finally are: the official opening of the FMLM Bookclub. Each month we will be asking one of our team (or a guest) to host an ongoing on-line review forum on a book related to the burgeoning world of Medical Leadership and Management. You can join in by contributing to the forum with your own thoughts and ideas, read along with us, or just follow us like a blog.
As this inaugural Bookclub forum review draws to its close, Christmas spirits are gleefully starting to rise, mainly in the form of home-made sloe gin infused with the recent dripping harvest from Saffron Walden's hedgerows! With this in mind, it is my pleasure to announce that next month’s FMLM Bookclub review will be lead by Anna Moore.