Dana Gallagher, MPH, PA, CHIC

All posts by Dana Gallagher

The Bad Leadership Chronicles: People Rising

I haven’t written a blog post for over a year because frankly, I couldn’t. The horror of living in Trump’s America was my undoing. I had a particular set of responses to his daily assaults which cycled something like: horrified, furious, stunned, numb, terrified, stunned, numb, heartbroken, stunned, numb. Rinse and repeat. I could not

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The Bad Leadership Chronicles: Stable Genius

In reaction to concerns about his mental fitness for the presidency, Trump has informed us that he is “like, really smart” and a “very stable genius.” From a leadership perspective, here’s what’s wrong with that: If your constituents have concerns or reservations about your fitness, it is up to you as the leader to listen

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The Bad Leadership Chronicles: I Pardon Myself

“All agree the President has complete power to pardon,” tweeted Trump recently. Constitutional questions aside, pardoning family and pardoning oneself is a tone-deaf, provocative example of a leader’s abuse of power. If you have been following American news at all, you know that Trump has craved, if not demanded, loyalty. Loyalty from his colleagues, his party,

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The Bad Leadership Chronicles: Acting Out

Today I woke up to yet another report of Trump tweeting badly: he had posted a mock video of himself tackling and beating a man with a CNN logo superimposed on his head. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/02/business/media/trump-wrestling-video-cnn-twitter.html Although his Homeland Security Deputy apparently thinks otherwise, Trump’s message is unambiguous: he intends to bring down people or institutions that criticize him–violently if

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The Bad Leadership Chronicles: #covfefe

With his recent midnight tweet, President Trump all but broke the Internet. It’s not only that the tweet was incoherent, but also, that it was alarming. Speculation as to its meaning ran rampant: Did he have a stroke? Was he signaling the Russians with a secret code? Or maybe it was just a typo? Six hours

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The Opposite of Certainty is Openness

It has come to my attention that I am not open. Or at least, not as open as I thought. Last year, I had an extended period of feeling professionally stale and under-challenged. Although I’d been casting around for something new, little had seemed to spark me. So, as any good coach would do, I asked myself, “What would I suggest

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#DaringGreatlyNow

In recent weeks, the world has been reeling in the wake of multiple tragic, harrowing, and/or paradigm-shattering events. Worse, there has been almost no time between incidents to integrate what it all means, nor to assess where we might (or must) go from here. We are imperiled in a way that is unprecedented in human history. People everywhere are expressing

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