IT’S LIVE. 🎙️ After months in the making, 100 Voices: How Better Feels is finally out in the world, sharing the hard-won wisdom about making healthcare better that rarely makes it into the case study.

And it starts with three extraordinary Voices:
🎙️ ① Jono Broad: From Bed to Board 🛌
🎙️ ② Guddi Singh: “What’s Breaking Your Heart?” ❤️
🎙️ ③ Professor Jason Leitch CBE: Don’t Persuade the Whole Room 🗣️

In a thoughtful & reflective exchange, Layla discusses the impact she & her committee have made on the Labour government & their frustration at the lack of progress on so many fronts.  

Has the government achieved anything much?  Layla argues that while the 10 year plan is broadly the right approach we seem to be going backwards rather than forwards. 

As for the abolition of NHS England in one move, that she describes that as throwing baby out with bathwater. 

She says the government has no idea what ending obesity means and she cites that as just one example of the lacklustre thinking on big public health challenges that has characterised this administration. 

This is a little book. Four chapters. Each takes about ten minutes to read.
Forty minutes from beginning to end… but the ideas have taken lifetimes to learn.

I think these four ideas are the foundation stones of good management and leadership.

Understand them and much else falls into place. Ignore them and no amount of strategy, restructuring, consultancy, technology or management jargon will rescue you.

Management, managing, leadership and followership have always fascinated me. In my columns over the years, I have tried to do the great ideas justice and point the way to a better understanding of why some organisations work well and why others don’t.

The book is available as a soft back book and there is a Kindle version.