Partha Kar: If you won’t speak up, how will the world know you exist?

The leadership journey for me started pretty early in my career—as a trainee, in fact—before I moved on to a clinical director role within a year of my appointment. When I worked in local leadership roles, I sometimes wondered why national leaders rarely spoke out on things that clearly weren’t helping patient care. In this regard, my time in a national role over the past seven and a half years has been fascinating. I’ve been able to observe first hand why people in positions of power in the NHS so often choose not to speak up. In my experience there are about five main reasons.Keeping the jobMany people think that raising their head above the parapet could compromise their position and their career, and they’ll lose their power to influence change. From personal experience, that’s mostly nonsense. I’ve found that a clear, loud voice centred on consistent values brings you…
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