title: Tips for leaders, part I: basic principles of leadership.
abstract: There are many important leadership skills that can be learned from experience, mentoring, reading, discussions, lectures, etc. The subjects include not only business topics and communication skills but also a variety of tips on what to do and what not to do. These include desirable styles of leadership, how to gain the trust of others in the organization, the significance of the appropriate delegation of tasks, the importance of teams, how to manage change, how to win during a crisis, what to do in the early days of becoming a new leader, preventing the loss of one's practice to a rival organization, improving quality, and others. There are also many important attributes of leaders, including having a strong moral compass. Although each of these topics could be a book in of itself, this short series of articles will briefly examine these issues and others.
authors.affiliation: Division of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. harolds112@cox.net
authors.forename: Jay A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Harolds
mesh_terms: D006040:Goals; D007857:Leadership; D009014:Morals; D009042:Motivation