Executive Excellence: Protocols for Healthcare Leaders, Second Edition

Carson F. Dye, FACHE

Softcover, 176 pp, 2000
ISBN 1-56793-142-1
Order code: WWW1-1111
Price: $16.00

What makes a truly good leader? Is it a person's prefessional reputation? Strong communication skills? High professional ethics standards? The answer is all of the above, plus some. How do you know if you're the most effective, most respected leader you can be?

This updated edition of Protocols for Healthcare Leaders focuses on the effect personal conduct has on leadership. In short chapters and concise language, this book defines leadership, describes its importance in healthcare today, and addresses the essential qualities of leadership. For each quality, the author provides a succinct explanation and a list of suggestions for actually improving or applying this leadership quality.

About the Author:

Carson F. Dye, FACHE, is a healthcare management and executive search consultant with Witt/Kieffer, Ford, Hadelman, Lloyd. He conducts chief executive officer, senior executive, and physician executive searches for various healthcare organizations. His consulting experience includes strategic planning, organizational design, and physician leadership. He assists boards in executive and physician compensation, conducts board retreats, and provides counsel in chief executive officers' employment contracts and evaluation matters for a variety of client organizations. Mr. Dye is also a co-presenter of the ACHE seminar "Renewing the Healthcare Organization: Management Strategies for Healthcare Leaders."