This site was originally developed as a resource for physicians and other healthcare professionals who move into hospital and academic management and leadership positions, but who then find that their past undergraduate and postgraduate education ill equips them for their new roles. The main objective was simply to share ‘a few useful ideas’ garnered from the scientific literature and from personal experience over the course of one such career.

Many of these ideas came not from the orthodox fields of biomedical sciences with which clinicians are familiar, but from exploration of what is known about the complex interactions among  the three primary  determinants of all human behaviour. Much of this rich and diverse fund of knowledge is well-substantiated but not always as well-known as it deserves.

The ideas are presented both as a database table for easy  access and as more detailed commentaries.  The first of these commentaries, the  Preface, is an account of how the site came to be developed and of how it might be used to better understand some of this complexity.  (NB: links in these commentaries are best opened in new tabs by the use of Ctrl/Click)

Although initially intended for clinicians in transit into management it has become apparent that much of the content may also be useful to anyone seeking to understand why some individuals and groups in other walks of life find it easier to solve problems than others.