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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership for Healthcare (with bonus article by Thomas H. Lee, MD, and Toby Cosgrove, MD)
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership for Healthcare (with bonus article by Thomas H. Lee, MD, and Toby Cosgrove, MD)

by Harvard Business Review, Thomas H. Lee, Daniel Goleman, Peter F. Drucker, John P. Kotter
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
240 pages
5h 45m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Content preview from HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership for Healthcare (with bonus article by Thomas H. Lee, MD, and Toby Cosgrove, MD)
Introduction

by Thomas H. Lee

Over the last half century, for the CEOs and senior managers of health care organizations, the meaning of leadership has gone through two transformations. In the kinder, gentler past, financial pressures were mild, and quality was considered unmeasurable. In the absence of compelling metrics for “output” or pressures to contain costs, business success depended on preserving relationships, brand building, and crisis management, and these were the skills prized in health care leaders.

The surge in medical progress that began in the 1960s, which resulted from increased investments in research in the years after World War II, drove the first transformation away from this status quo. Untreatable diseases became treatable, ...

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ISBN: 9781633694330