#282: Peter Wharton-Hood, CEO, LIFE Healthcare Group – Pick team players over individual performers

Hello friends and welcome to another edition of How Leaders Lead with David Noback. Today we have Peter Warden Hood on the show. Peter is the CEO of Life Healthcare and he took over in August of 2020, right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, Peter was an accomplished banking executive, but he had no healthcare experience and zero context for what it took To run a hospital.

Yet it was his job to lead 16,000 healthcare workers through this generational crisis. Peter stepped into that role with a team-first philosophy, and that really has shaped his entire career. In this episode, you'll learn how to think differently about what really matters when building a team. And you'll gain from Peter the courage to make hard calls that great. team culture requires.

Enjoy this episode with David and Peter and I'll see you at the end of the episode for the debrief. It's great to have a conversation with one of the happiest guys I know. I mean, you've always got a smile on your face. What makes you so happy? Damn it, what an interesting way of starting a conversation.

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