Transforming Health Care Leadership: A Systems Guide to Improve Patient Care, Decrease Costs, and Improve Population Health [Hardcover]

Health care organizations are challenged to improve care at the bedside for patients, learn from individual patients to improve population health, and reduce per capita costs. To achieve these aims, leaders are needed in all parts of the organization need positive solutions. Transforming Health Care Leadership provides healthcare leaders with the knowledge and tools to master the unprecedented level of change that health care organizations and their leaders now face. It also challenges management myths that served in bureaucracies but mislead in learning organizations.

Figures, Tables, Exhibits xiii

Preface xxi

The Authors xxix

Part 1: The Challenge to Health Care Organizations and Creating the Leadership Team 1

1 Introduction: From Management Myths to Strategic Intelligence 3

Plan of the Book 8

Part 1: The Challenge to Health Care Organizations and Creating the Leadership Team 8

Part 2: Strategic Intelligence and Profound Knowledge for Leading 9

Part 3: Learning from Other Leaders and Creating a Path Forward 11

Key Terms 11

2 Why and How Health Care Organizations Need to Change 13

The Purpose of the Preliminary Research 18

The Model of Change 18

Changing Modes of Production in Health Care 20

Health Care in Learning Organizations 20

Leadership for Learning 23

The Human Side of Change 24

Approach to Service 25

The Role of Culture 26

The Mayo Model 27

Summary 29

Key Terms 31

Exercises 31

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