CHAPTER 7
Leaders for Health Care
THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY is huge, making up from 13 to 16 percent of the U.S. economy. It’s a knowledge industry that should provide solutions rather than just products and services, but its mode of production and the social character of many of its key professionals lag behind the times. Health care is an industry desperately in need of visionary leaders who partner with operational and network leaders to transform organizations and even influence the social character of physicians.
The troubling issues concerning health care in the United States are becoming better known: zooming costs; the increasing numbers of uninsured as companies drop coverage of employees; significant variability in diagnosis and treatment ...
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