Leadership from the Edge Speaker Daniel Barchi to Share How Speed Can Be Beneficial

9.27.2018
Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public Relations

 

Daniel Barchi currently serves NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital as senior vice president and CIO, yet a decade and a half ago, he found himself driving a 600-foot-long, 10,000-ton Navy cruiser with 400 personnel on board at 35 knots across the Mediterranean to reach a Tomahawk missile launch zone in the Red Sea. For the young naval officer, it was a hair-raising but exhilarating experience. And oddly safe, because at that speed the only unlikely threat was hitting another ship dead ahead.

Fast forward a few years, to a civilian job and a $1 billion project building data centers around the world. Barchi and his team are once again working fast and furious at a pace that keeps accelerating. Déjà vu.

His experience at sea has proven to be a life lesson that guides Barchi’s approach as a leader, although he didn’t realize it until years later. “I found that as we sped up the schedule, it really framed the decisions,” Barchi recalled. “It did not give anybody the flexibility to overthink anything. I then thought back, ‘Where did I see this before?’ and I realized it was at sea. After that, I knew I could be successful and my teams could be successful and get more done by focusing on execution and not on perfection.”

“Challenging situations are not a problem, they are generally an opportunity,” he said. “You have guiding principles and react in the moment that aligns with your principles. By doing so, I have been able to survive and make progress for myself and my institutions in these challenging situations and come out for the better.”

Humility plays a critical role in success as well. A leader has to recognize that he or she will sometimes make a wrong decision and will need to pivot and recalibrate rather than stubbornly plow forward with a flawed idea. “Humility goes hand in hand with flexibility and decisiveness,” Barchi said.  

In his presentation “From Speed and Humility Come Mission Achievement” at the 2018 CHIME Fall CIO Forum on Oct. 31, Barchi will share the lessons that shaped his career. His is one of three presentations in Leadership from the Edge, a program that features short, TED-like out-of-the-box talks.

Barchi will also be the keynote speaker at the AEHIA/AEHIS/AEHIT Fall Summit, which will be held nearby at the Omni San Diego Hotel on Oct. 31. AEHIA, AEHIS and AEHIT are associations affiliated with CHIME that serve healthcare IT executives who specialize in applications, security and technology.

The CHIME Fall CIO Forum will take place Oct. 30-Nov. 2 at the Marriott Marquis San Diego. The forum will also include keynote speakers Daniel Pink, author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Emily Chang, anchor of “Bloomberg Technology” and author of Brotopia, and Sanjay Gupta, MD, chief medical correspondent for CNN. There are also numerous networking events, a reception on the USS Midway, CIO-led track sessions, focus groups, Sunrise Sessions, and a CHIME HealthCare’s Most Wired awards presentation on the closing day.  

For more information and to register for CHIME18, go here. For more information about AEHIA, AEHIS and AEHIT, go here.

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