Leading the Revolution in Health Care or After the Washington Consensus

Leading the Revolution in Health Care: Advancing Systems, Igniting Performance

Author: Cathleen Krueger Wilson

The authors of the popular Leadership Revolution in Health Care, First Edition have completely revised their book and added all new chapters to expand the scope beyond only nursing to all patient care leaders. There are tools and insights in this leadership text that are not available in any other contemporary leadership text in health care. This book focuses specifically on health care leadership and applies the broader talents and skills to the specific concerns, issues and roles of health care leaders. Includes discussion of the impact of chaos on the management process, the impact of aging in the delivery of health care services, core competencies for successful leadership, principles of shared decision making and shared leadership, service pathways and continuum of care, share governance, team performance, accountability, action learning sets, art of systems thinking, developing models of leader performance, and more.

Anna M. McDaniel

This is the second edition of a popular 1995 book about the role of transformational leaders embedded in changing healthcare systems. This new edition includes material on conflict resolution and spirituality in the workplace not included in the first release. The purpose is to help nurses in leadership positions adapt to the rapid changes taking place in healthcare and to develop the new skills required to thrive in evolving systems. This book is a synthesis of organizational theory and practice in a nursing/healthcare context. It is intended for nurse managers experiencing or anticipating change in their role. Advanced graduate students in nursing or healthcare administration would also benefit from this book. The authors are recognized as experts in organizational change and transformational leadership, serving as consultants to many healthcare systems across the U.S. The authors describe the changes that have occurred in healthcare that drive the current "revolution." They explain the leadership competencies required to succeed in integrated systems for care delivery. A comprehensive self-assessment and plan for leadership development are particular strengths of the book. Examples of several tools used by the authors in training workshops are included in the appendixes. The authors draw heavily from content found in current organizational theory and change literature. By grounding the concepts within the healthcare system, the authors present otherwise abstract ideas in a manner accessible to nurses practicing in the "real world."

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Reviewer: Anna M. McDaniel, DNS, RN (Indiana University School of Nursing)
Description: This is the second edition of a popular 1995 book about the role of transformational leaders embedded in changing healthcare systems. This new edition includes material on conflict resolution and spirituality in the workplace not included in the first release.
Purpose: The purpose is to help nurses in leadership positions adapt to the rapid changes taking place in healthcare and to develop the new skills required to thrive in evolving systems. This book is a synthesis of organizational theory and practice in a nursing/healthcare context.
Audience: It is intended for nurse managers experiencing or anticipating change in their role. Advanced graduate students in nursing or healthcare administration would also benefit from this book. The authors are recognized as experts in organizational change and transformational leadership, serving as consultants to many healthcare systems across the U.S.
Features: The authors describe the changes that have occurred in healthcare that drive the current "revolution." They explain the leadership competencies required to succeed in integrated systems for care delivery. A comprehensive self-assessment and plan for leadership development are particular strengths of the book. Examples of several tools used by the authors in training workshops are included in the appendixes.
Assessment: The authors draw heavily from content found in current organizational theory and change literature. By grounding the concepts within the healthcare system, the authors present otherwise abstract ideas in a manner accessible to nurses practicing in the "real world."

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Revised and expanded and with a catchier subtitle than its 1985 incarnation, this volume describes the paradigm shift the authors believe is occurring in the health care field and offers managers suggestions and ideas for improving their management skills in the new environment. Updates include updated figures and new chapters on the "soul" of the workplace and on managing conflict in organizations in the midst of intense change. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

Contents: Over the Horizon: Living in the New World * Are Your Management Skills Obsolete? * Constructing Partnership in a Living System * From Illness to Life Management: Building the Point-of-Service Health System * Whole Systems Design for a Shared Leadership Organizations * Leader' s Dilemma: Slow Death or Transformation * Outcomes and Accountability: The Foundations for the Future of Health Care * The Manager as Learner: Translating Knowledge into Leadership Action * Exorcising the Bureaucracy Within: Admitting That Leaders Can Never Control Everything * Mapping the Competencies of Leadership Performance * A Crisis of Soul in the Health Care Workplace * When Push Comes to Shove: Resolving Conflict with Stakeholders * Appendixes * Index

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After the Washington Consensus: Restarting Growth and Reform in Latin America

Author: John Williamson

This volume is a successor of sorts to the Institute's 1986 volume Toward Renewed Economic Growth in Latin America, which blazed the trail for the market-oriented economic reforms that were adopted in Latin America in the subsequent years. It again presents the work of a group of leading economists (*) who were asked to think about the nature of the economic policy agenda that the region should be pursuing after the better part of a decade that was punctuated by crises, achieved disappointingly slow growth, and saw no improvement in the region's highly skewed income distribution. It diagnoses the first-generation (liberalizing and stabilizing) reforms that are still lacking, the complementary second-generation (institutional) reforms that are necessary to provide the institutional infrastructure of a market economy with an egalitarian bias, and the new initiatives that are needed to crisis-proof the economies of the region to end its perpetual series of crises.