Be the leader who surprises your team

Max Goodwin, the fictitious medical director on “New Amsterdam,” is terminally optimistic.

He jogs the halls of the hectic TV hospital looking for opportunity and purpose. “How can I help?” is his mantra. How can he help the burned-out emergency room docs who are working accident victims? How can he help the administrative staffers who have completed their 40 hours by mid-week? How can he help the staff psychologist heal the vets with PTSD?

Max and “New Amsterdam” are fictional but inspired by Eric Manheimer’s 2012 memoir “Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital.” The show is intense, warm and a study in leading with grace.

There’s lots of buzz about “servant leaders” these days.

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