Taking the Lead: A Guide for Emerging Leaders in Academic Medical Centers

ISBN-13: 9783031167102 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 198 str.

Kyle P. Meyer; Rob Kramer

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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 reader’s 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.

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Preface

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

Chapter 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: It’s the Little (or not so little) Things

 

Chapter 11    Leading by Following

Chapter 12    Understanding (and Following) the Academic Medical Center’s “Chain of Command”

Chapter 13    The Value of “Invisible” Leadership

Chapter 14    The Leader’s 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 Can’t Lead if You Don’t Take Care of Yourself

 

 

 

O autorze

Rob Kramer

Founder and CEO

Kramer Leadership

Rob@KramerLeadership.com

Kyle P. Meyer, PhD, MS, PT, FASAHP

Dean

College of Allied Health Professions

University of Nebraska Medical Center

Omaha, NE 68198-4000