Question

One hospital CEO insists on including performance data in the hospital’s annual report. "We do very well on most measures, except for one or two, but we put those in anyway," she says. "We want to hold ourselves accountable." Does this practice demonstrate effective or ineffective leadership?

a) Ineffective leadership: Because results are an important indication of leadership, publicly sharing poor results is an unwise practice.
b) Effective leadership: Being transparent, even about poor results, is a mark of a good leader.
c) Ineffective leadership: Leaders are people who have followers, and sharing poor results might cause the leader to lose some followers.
d) Effective leadership: It is good to share results in the annual report, but the leadership would be even more effective if it shared only the strongest results.

Answer 1

The answer is: B) Effective leadership: Being transparent, even about poor results, is a mark of a good leader.

Step-by-step explanation:

Being a good and effective leader includes both good and bad times. Sometimes effective leadership is better appreciated during bad times. In this case, the hospital CEO wants to improve the way his hospital works. The best way to improve is to identify your defects and problems, and then correct them. Hiding poor results wouldn't help anyone, things will just get worse.