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Leadership in Healthcare:
Essential Values and Skills, Second Edition
Carson F. Dye, FACHE
ISBN 13: 978-1-56793-355-0
Softbound, 280 pp, 2010
Imprint: ACHE Management Series Book
Order code: 2151
Price: $82.00
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This title is available for the Kindle and Kindle Fire. Visit Amazon.com for more information. Also available through iTunes and the iBooks app.
This book may also be purchased as a textbook with perpetual electronic access. Visit cafescribe.com for more information.
Respect. Commitment. Integrity. Trust. Cooperation. Stewardship.
Leadership in Healthcare explains the connection between values and leadership. It defines the role of both personal and team values in improving behavior, performance, and morale. It also offers practical strategies for strengthening leadership and interaction skills and for enhancing overall effectiveness. Case studies, exercises, and self-assessment tools are included in the book to help readers internalize and apply the concepts.
This new edition includes:
Additional strategies for enhancing listening skills, engaging employees, and evaluating team effectiveness
Coverage of competency-based leadership, rapid-cycle testing, and the whole-person approach to leadership evaluation
Expanded discussion of servant leadership, change makers, emotional intelligence, and groupthink
Vignettes that apply chapter concepts to actual healthcare work situations
Sidebars, updated references, suggested readings, and cases and exercises
Instructor Resources: Teaching tips, discussion questions, links to personality tests, and PowerPoint slides. To see a sample, click the link in the right-hand navigation bar.
Carson F. Dye, FACHE, is an executive search consultant with Witt/Kieffer, which con¬ducts chief executive officer, senior executive, and physician executive searches for a variety of health-care organizations. His consulting experience includes leadership assessment, organizational design, and physician leadership development. He also conducts board retreats and provides counsel in executive employment contracts for a variety of client organizations. |
"This book is a must read for those who are desirous of looking at themselves and taking that first step to truly enhance their leadership performance. Ten years later, Carson's message is as fresh and important as when he first penned this book. It is still all about how we interconnect with each other on behalf of those we serve to make their lives better."
Michael H. Covert, FACHE, President and Chief Executive Officer, Palomar Pomerado Health, San Diego, California, from the Foreword |
"Leadership in Healthcare: Essential Values and Skills demonstrates how successful leadership is clearly anchored in well-understood values and encourages the reader to maximize leadership capabilities by developing and practicing a suitable personal value system. Carson Dye is to be applauded for writing and updating this eminently useful book on what is inarguably the most critical competency needed by healthcare leaders today."
Stephen J. O'Connor, PhD, FACHE, Professor, Dept. of Health Services Administration, School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, from the Foreword |
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