title: Learning organizations need teachers: the leader's challenge.
abstract: The leader as learner and the leader as teacher are very basic to the role of any leader, but often overlooked in favor of command and control styles of leadership. Continual improvement is the only way we can insure to our patients that we can provide the best care available to them. In the words of Florence Nightingale: "For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it, we are going back (Ulrich, 1992, p. 12). When we truly believe that everyone in the organization possesses useful knowledge they can share, and when we truly believe that the best organizations comprise true learners and teachers, we will achieve the excellence that we are determined to achieve.
authors.forename: Karlene
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kerfoot
mesh_terms: D005178:Faculty; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D017146:Models, Organizational; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000379:methods*; D011209:Power, Psychological