TY - JOUR T1 - Leadership reframed JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 431 LP - 431 DO - 10.3399/bjgp12X653688 VL - 62 IS - 601 AU - Trisha Greenhalgh Y1 - 2012/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/62/601/431.abstract N2 - ‘Every time you send an email inviting me to participate in a medical “leadership” event, a part of me dies,’ tweeted Ben Goldacre, junior doctor and Bad Science columnist, recently.I know how he feels. Leadership events are — often although not always — predicated on the assumption that attendees can be supplied with a dose of leadership fairy-dust via PowerPoint® bullets and naff group exercises, and then sent back to sprinkle it on troubled organisations, recalcitrant staff, and needy patients.The idea that tools such as SMART (‘specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timescaled’) objectives or the Belbin Team Roles Questionnaire will … ER -