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

Author(s): Cathleen Krueger Wilson, RN, PhD
Tim Porter-O'Grady, DM, EdD, ScD, APRN, FAAN, Senior Partner, Tim Porter-O’Grady Associates, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, Associate Professor, Leadership Scholar, College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona
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  • ISBN-13: 9780834213678
  • ISBN-10:0834213672
  • Hardcover    484 pages      © 1999
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The authors of the popular Leadership Revolution in Health Care (1995) 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.

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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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Cathleen Krueger Wilson, RN, PhD

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Tim Porter-O'Grady, DM, EdD, ScD, APRN, FAAN-Senior Partner, Tim Porter-O’Grady Associates, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, Associate Professor, Leadership Scholar, College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona

Dr. Tim Porter-O'Grady has been involved in health care for 33 years.  He has served in many positions from clinical provider to both hospital and health service executive in a variety of health services and is a principle in an international health consulting practice. He is currently Senior Partner of Tim Porter-O’Grady Associates, an international health consulting practice specializing in health systems futures, governance leadership and conflict issues.  He also serves as an associate professor on the graduate faculty of Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Porter-O'Grady holds degrees in nursing, clinical administration, learning behavior and health systems.  He has done post-doctoral work in aging and is a certified clinical specialist in gerontology.  He is a graduate of the Harvard University conflict management program and is certified by the Supreme Court’s Office of Dispute Resolution as a registered mediator and arbitrator.

 

Dr. Porter-O'Grady has written over 145 journal articles and book chapters and has published thirteen books (4 of which have won the AJN health care management, “Book of the Year” award). He has consulted with over 700 hospitals and health care agencies internationally and has spoken in 1750 health-related settings in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia.  Dr. Porter-O'Grady is listed in seven different categories of Who's Who in America, serves on seven health care journal editorial boards and is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

 

Dr. Porter-O'Grady has served on a number of community and national boards and has been an elected officer in a variety of health related agencies and organizations. He has been a health systems expert for the National Health Policy Council, governing board member Franciscan Health System, Vice-Chair of the governing board of Catholic Health East, President of the Georgia Nurses Foundation, and Chair of the Board of AID Atlanta, among many others.

 

Dr. Porter-O'Grady has focused his professional work on health systems innovation and creativity as applied to the design and delivery of health services. He is considered an expert on health futures and innovative health service models. He has a strong commitment to building health communities and facilitating the partnerships necessary to sustain them.

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