Prescribing Leadership in Healthcare: Curing the Challenge Facing Today's Healthcare Leaders

With Foreword written by Chris Van Gorder (President & CEO, Scripps Health).Healthcare has been undergoing significant changes in recent years with more expected well into the foreseeable future. Now, more than ever, we need leaders who are well-versed in all aspects of leadership. Unfortunately, the skills that made healthcare leaders successful in the past may not be enough to be successful in the future. Managing change requires a very special set of skills. Project management, lean six sigma and other change processes all identify leadership as a key critical success factor. In fact, a recent study by the Healthcare Center for Excellence revealed that lack of leadership was the greatest challenge to implementing healthcare analytics. More alarming was the fact that those in leadership positions did not recognize their role in the change management process.Added to this is the confusing advice on what is needed to be a good leader, when, in actuality, all that is needed is for the l