BookKyle P. Meyer, Rob Kramer.
Summary: This practical, insightful title is a must read for anyone interested in or recently appointed to a leadership role in an academic medical center. Taking the Lead: A Guide for Emerging Leaders in Academic Medical Centers represents the highly accomplished authors more than 60 years of collective insights about leadership and leading effectively in an academic medical center environment. The authors present creative and highly applicable themes synthesized from their knowledge, career experiences, unique reflections, practice, mistakes, and observations of successful (and not so successful) leaders. The result is a book of leadership wisdom a wealth of ideas, concepts, and insights to inform the readers career journey and to become the best leader they can be. Organized in five parts, this work examines the successful leadership transition in the unique (and sometimes perplexing) academic medical center environment. Informal, conversational in tone, and often engagingly humorous, Taking the Lead: A Guide for Emerging Leaders in Academic Medical Centers represents a concise and invaluable introductory read for the next generation of leaders, as well as a helpful resource for experienced healthcare leaders.
Contents:
Chapter 1 . Introduction: Why You Should Read this Book
Part I: Leadership in the Academic Medical Center: Insights and Perspectives
Chapter 2. The Milieu of the Academic Medical Center
Chapter 3. Transitioning to Leadership in the Academic Medical Center: Conceptual Considerations
Chapter 4. Transitioning to Leadership in the Academic Medical Center: Practical Considerations.-mChapter 5. Strengths and Motivations of the Leader.-Chapter 6. The Work of Leading in the Academic Medical Center
Part II: Deciding About Decision-Making
Chapter 7. The Multiple Dimensions of Decision-Making in the Academic Medical Center
Chapter 8. Making Leadership Decisions versus Clinical Decisions
Chapter 9. Getting Comfortable with the "Limits" of Decision-Making
Chapter 10. Decisions about Your Academic Medical Center Career Trajectory
Part III: Its the Little (or not so little) Things
Chapter 11. Leading by Following
Chapter 12. Understanding (and Following) the Academic Medical Centers "Chain of Command"
Chapter 13. The Value of "Invisible" Leadership
Chapter 14. The Leaders Role in Academic Medical Center Philanthropy
Chapter 15. Accreditation: The Regulatory "Lifeblood" of the Academic Medical Center
Part IV: Leadership Challenges & Challenges to Leadership
Chapter 16. Leading Change in the Academic Medical Center
Chapter 17. Leading Conflict Resolution
Chapter 18. Crisis Leadership in the Academic Medical Center
Chapter 19. Betrayal: Such is the Life of a Leader
Part V: Epilogue
Chapter 20. You Cant Lead if You Dont Take Care of Yourself.