--- title: The Long Tail of COVID-19 Crisis Leadership - Your Organization's Future is Now description: Physician Leadership Actions now in COVID-19 pandemic determine team effectiveness & your organizations culture for years to come - the long tail is now image: https://www.thehappymd.com/hubfs/images/2020%20IMAGES/2020%20BLOG%20IMAGES/covid19-stop-physician-burnout-physician-leadership-mark-cuban-long-tail_opt150W.jpg --- [![Stop-physician-burnout-dike-drummond-physician-leadership-you-can-banner-11-5-2018_opt995W](https://www.thehappymd.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Stop-physician-burnout-dike-drummond-physician-leadership-you-can-banner-11-5-2018_opt995W-1.jpg?width=995&height=146&name=Stop-physician-burnout-dike-drummond-physician-leadership-you-can-banner-11-5-2018_opt995W-1.jpg "Stop-physician-burnout-dike-drummond-physician-leadership-you-can-banner-11-5-2018_opt995W")](https://www.thehappymd.com) ## **The Creative Destruction of Physician Burnout ** [![prevent doctor burnout matrix](https://hubspot-no-cache-na2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/cta/default/263814/da1e787d-095f-4485-9d4d-9a9bc4195d86.png)](https://hubspot-cta-redirect-na2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/cta/redirect/263814/da1e787d-095f-4485-9d4d-9a9bc4195d86) # [The Long Tail of COVID-19 Crisis Leadership - Your Organization's Future is Now](https://www.thehappymd.com/blog/the-long-tail-of-covid-19-crisis-leadership-your-organizations-future-is-now) Posted by [Dike Drummond MD](https://www.thehappymd.com/blog/author/dike-drummond-md) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ## [![covid19-stop-physician-burnout-physician-leadership-mark-cuban-long-tail_opt150W](https://www.thehappymd.com/hs-fs/hubfs/images/2020%20IMAGES/2020%20BLOG%20IMAGES/covid19-stop-physician-burnout-physician-leadership-mark-cuban-long-tail_opt150W.jpg?width=150&name=covid19-stop-physician-burnout-physician-leadership-mark-cuban-long-tail_opt150W.jpg)](https://support.thehappymd.com/quadruple-aim-physician-leadership-retreat-2020)Attention Senior Healthcare Leaders - your personal leadership response to this COVID-19 crisis will lock in the culture of your teams for the next 5 years. - The tail is long - The time for leadership is now - How are you showing up? **When the pandemic forces your people to strap on their PPE for each shift, putting themselves at daily risk in order to serve the sick and dying - they are watching for *any signs that someone has their back.  *** ## **If we polled them ... ****... how do you think your people would rate the quality of your crisis leadership, on a 0 -10 scale? ** *========== 3 Layers of Wellness Leadership Skills **Quadruple Aim Physician Leadership Retreat ***[CLICK To Learn More](https://support.thehappymd.com/quadruple-aim-physician-leadership-retreat-2020) *==========* **Are you stepping up to the challenge, maximizing your efforts to be the kind of leader people want to follow?** - Do you have a clear understanding of what is going on in the trenches? - Are you are doing everything you can to give your people the tools to do their job right? - Are you [present, visible and in daily communication](https://www.thehappymd.com/blog/physician-leadership-skills-the-1-habit-of-the-high-trust-physician-leader) - in person when possible and by every virtual means at your disposal if you cannot be there in person? - Have you personally said Thank You to every one of your team members in the last week? - Are you are rallying the troops and visiting the fallen? **OR ** **Are you simply doubling down on the usual administrative punch list** -- in meetings, putting out fires -- invisible to your people in the Emergency Departments, Urgent Cares, wards, wings and isolation facilities. Meetings are important ... and completely insufficient in times like these. ![physician-leadership-physician-burnout-quadruple-aim](https://www.thehappymd.com/hs-fs/hubfs/images/4A_Leadership_Retreat_Images/QAPLR%202018%20Images/physician-leadership-physician-burnout-quadruple-aim.jpg?width=240&name=physician-leadership-physician-burnout-quadruple-aim.jpg) **What you do or don't do now - will be burned ****into the memory of everyone around you in the years ahead.** > **When the chips were down ... did you have my back?** > > **Or were you AWOL and invisible in the ivory towers and management silos of the professional administrator?** ** I urge all physicians who lead work teams and all healthcare leaders of teams caring for COVID-19 patients to STEP UP. **This is not a skirmish, it is an 18 month siege. We are just getting started. Do not delay. **Show people you have their back. Be the kind of leader people want to follow into battle. ** ## **BE ...** - Informed, transparent, truthful - Empathetic, omnipresent, supportive, thankful - And communicating at 10X of your usual volume and frequency ## Your people are watching. They will remember these times, for the rest of their lives in some cases.   **Your leadership actions will determine your team's effectiveness today and the culture of your work teams for at least the next five years. **[Mark Cuban says the long tail of your crisis leadership could define your organization for decades.](https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/25/coronavirus-mark-cuban-warns-against-rushing-employees-back-to-work.html) The fire of this outbreak can drive you closer depending on how you respond. You can quickly jump to *new levels of connection, collaboration and effectiveness*.  ## **OR ...** You can do your best to keep your head down, hope that no one notices and that this pandemic blows over quickly. That course of action a powerful message to your teams, clear as crystal - *no one has your back back now or in the future*.  ## What is it going to be? ## Take a look in the mirror. Your people, your patients and your future is at stake. ## Carpe Diem [![covid-19-physician-leadership-say-thank-you-have-my-back](https://www.thehappymd.com/hs-fs/hubfs/images/2020%20IMAGES/2020%20BLOG%20IMAGES/Fotolia_106433243_S.jpg?width=400&name=Fotolia_106433243_S.jpg)](https://support.thehappymd.com/quadruple-aim-physician-leadership-retreat-2020) ============ ## **PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT:** **What are your senior leaders doing well in this crisis?**   Tags: [Physician Leadership](https://www.thehappymd.com/blog/topic/physician-leadership), [stop physician burnout](https://www.thehappymd.com/blog/topic/stop-physician-burnout), [Pandemic](https://www.thehappymd.com/blog/topic/pandemic) - [Home ](https://www.thehappymd.com) - [Blog ](https://www.thehappymd.com/blog) - [About](https://www.thehappymd.com/about-the-happy-md)   - [ Contact ](https://www.thehappymd.com/contact) - |  - [Republish Articles](https://www.thehappymd.com/the-happy-md-content-network-signup-r)   || [Privacy Policy](https://www.thehappymd.com/privacy-policy) | [Terms of Use](https://www.thehappymd.com/terms-of-use) | [Anti-Spam Policy](https://www.thehappymd.com/anti-spam-policy) ||   **© TheHappyMD.com all rights reserved** ```json { "@context" : "https://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Dike Drummond MD", "url" : "https://www.thehappymd.com/blog/author/dike-drummond-md" }, "dateModified" : "2020-09-08T00:26:31.132Z", "datePublished" : "2020-03-29T00:23:21.000Z", "headline" : "The Long Tail of COVID-19 Crisis Leadership - Your Organization's Future is Now", "image" : [ "https://www.thehappymd.com/hubfs/images/2020%20IMAGES/2020%20BLOG%20IMAGES/covid19-stop-physician-burnout-physician-leadership-mark-cuban-long-tail_opt150W.jpg" ], "mainEntityOfPage" : { "@id" : "https://www.thehappymd.com/blog/the-long-tail-of-covid-19-crisis-leadership-your-organizations-future-is-now", "@type" : "WebPage" }, "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "url" : "https://www.thehappymd.com/hubfs/Stop-physician-burnout-dike-drummond-physician-leadership-you-can-banner-11-5-2018_opt995W.jpg" }, "name" : "The Happy MD" } } ```