Leadership

Baedke, L. (2018). The Emerging Healthcare Leader: A Field Guide (2nd Ed.). Health Administration Press. 

This book is a resource for those in the early stages of becoming a healthcare leader. Packed with tactics, tips, and illuminating straightforward examples, this book is an indispensable guide to building your career in healthcare leadership. It offers practical suggestions and share anecdotes, personal stories, and important lessons learned. It provides advice and ideas to advance your career.  [CSS login required]

Part II - Interpersonal Skills, in Cellucci, L. (2019). Essentials of Healthcare Management: Cases, Concepts, and Skills (2nd Ed.). Health Administration Press.

This book examines health services management in the context that healthcare managers are more effective, in terms of decision-making and performance, if they possess a broad range of management skills as well as a thorough knowledge of how the US healthcare system works. Part II is interpersonal skills.  [CSS login required]

Part II—Personal Values, in Dye, C. (2017). Leadership in Healthcare: Essential Values and Skills, (3rd Ed.). Health Administration Press.

The goals of this book are to: Raise leaders’ awareness about values and their meaning and applicability to leadership.; Posit that values play a major role in leaders’ effective performance; and to Recommend practical strategies for living by those values at work and at home. This book focuses on values-based leadership. The book is divided into five parts. Part II—Personal Values—includes chapters 6 through 12 and catalogs the key values that influence the leader’s behaviors, priorities, thought processes, and actions. [CSS login required]

White, K. R. (2017). Boost Your Nursing Leadership Career: 50 Lessons That Drive Success. Health Administration Press.

This book takes a three-pronged approach to introduce nurses to what it takes to be leaders and how to go about developing one’s career. It has 3 themes—Manage Yourself, Manage Your Job, and Boost Your Career. Success isn’t something you’re born with; it is carefully cultivated, mastered, and honed. "The traits, lessons, and skills outlined in this book must be mastered for maximum personal and career success."  [CSS login required]

Frei, F. (2018, April). How to build (and rebuild) trust [Video]. TED Conferences. (14:57)

Trust is the foundation for everything we do. But what do we do when it's broken? In an eye-opening talk, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei gives a crash course in trust: how to build it, maintain it and rebuild it -- something she worked on during a recent stint at Uber. "If we can learn to trust one another more, we can have unprecedented human progress," Frei says.

Sivanathan, N. (2019, May). The counterintuitive way to be more persuasive [Video]. TED Conferences. (10:41) 

What's the best way to make a good point? Organizational psychologist Niro Sivanathan offers a fascinating lesson on the "dilution effect," a cognitive quirk that weakens our strongest cases -- and reveals why brevity is the true soul of persuasion.

Part I—Leadership in Health-care, in Dye, C. (2017). Leadership in Healthcare: Essential Values and Skills, (3rd Ed.). Health Administration Press.

The goals of this book are to: Raise leaders’ awareness about values and their meaning and applicability to leadership; Posit that values play a major role in leaders’ effective performance; and to Recommend practical strategies for living by those values at work and at home. This book focuses on values-based leadership. It is divided into five parts: (1) Leadership in Health-care sets the stage on which the field and its leaders perform their roles, (2) Personal Values catalogs the key values that influence the leader’s behaviors, priorities, thought processes, and actions; (3) Team Values explores the values that guide a leadership team; (4) Evaluation provides guidance for assessing team values and effectiveness and careers at all stages; and (5) Academic Perspectives provides a research-based response to the book and academic approaches to the question of whether leadership truly matters in the workplace. [CSS login required]

Huston, C. J. (2018). The Road to Leadership. Sigma Theta Tau International.

examines the need for leadership development in nursing, discusses what leadership means—including how it means different things in different situations and with different people—and emphasizes the importance of good followers to the leadership equation. The book is organized with nine sections detailing valuable leadership les-sons I learned along my own leadership journey. I learned many of these lessons the hard way and have purposely shared stories where I encountered frustration and failure as a leader.  [CSS login required]

Kaissi, A. (2018). Intangibles: The Unexpected Traits of High-Performing Healthcare Leaders. Health Administration Press.

This book presents evidence-based practices: practices that have been proven to be effective by a large number of people, in a variety of different settings, over time. He interviewed 20 current and retired healthcare leaders, providers, and experts on leadership-related issues and collected data from more than 500 employees, supervisors, middle managers, and executives in nine health systems. The book has 3 sections, Part 1 - Introduction, Part 2 - Leadership Traits, and Part 3 - Applications  [CSS login required]

White, K. R. (2017). Boost Your Nursing Leadership Career: 50 Lessons That Drive Success. Health Administration Press.

This book takes a three-pronged approach to introduce nurses to what it takes to be leaders and how to go about developing one’s career. It has 3 themes—Manage Yourself, Manage Your Job, and Boost Your Career. Success isn’t something you’re born with; it is carefully cultivated, mastered, and honed. "The traits, lessons, and skills outlined in this book must be mastered for maximum personal and career success."  [CSS login required]

McChrystal, S. (2011, March). Listen, learn ... then lead [Video]. TED Conferences. (15:22)

Four-star general Stanley McChrystal shares what he learned about leadership over his decades in the military. How can you build a sense of shared purpose among people of many ages and skill sets? By listening and learning -- and addressing the possibility of failure.

Eber, K. (2020, February). How your brain responds to stories -- and why they're crucial for leaders [Video]. TED Conferences. (13:54)

How do the world's best leaders and visionaries earn trust? They don't just present data -- they also tell great stories. Leadership consultant Karen Eber demystifies what makes for effective storytelling and explains how anyone can harness it to create empathy and inspire action.

Edmondson, A. (2017, October). How to turn a group of strangers into a team [Video]. TED Conferences. (12:58)

Business school professor Amy Edmondson studies "teaming," where people come together quickly (and often temporarily) to solve new, urgent or unusual problems. Recalling stories of teamwork on the fly, such as the incredible rescue of 33 miners trapped half a mile underground in Chile in 2010, Edmondson shares the elements needed to turn a group of strangers into a quick-thinking team that can nimbly respond to challenges. She studies teams in Hospitals.

Davis, L. (2019, September). A guide to collaborative leadership [Video]. TED Conferences. (14:10)

What's the difference between heroes and leaders? In this insightful talk, Lorna Davis explains how our idolization of heroes is holding us back from solving big problems -- and shows why we need "radical interdependence" to make real change happen.

Doerr, J. (2018, April). Why the secret to success is setting the right goals [Video]. TED Conferences. (11:42)

Learn about how setting the right goals can mean the difference between success and failure. Good objectives are Significant, Concrete, Action-oriented, and Inspirational. He discusses the method used by Google, Intel and even Bono! "If the heart doesn't find a perfect rhyme with the head, then your passion means nothing," (Bono, 6:16).

Baedke, L. (2018). The Emerging Healthcare Leader: A Field Guide (2nd Ed.). Health Administration Press. 

This book is a resource for those in the early stages of becoming a healthcare leader. Packed with tactics, tips, and illuminating straightforward examples, this book is an indispensable guide to building your career in healthcare leadership. It offers practical suggestions and share anecdotes, personal stories, and important lessons learned. It provides advice and ideas to advance your career.  [CSS login required]

Cellucci, L. (2019). Essentials of Healthcare Management: Cases, Concepts, and Skills (2nd Ed.). Health Administration Press.

This book examines health services management in the context that healthcare managers are more effective, in terms of decision-making and performance, if they possess a broad range of management skills as well as a thorough knowledge of how the US healthcare system works. The book is divided into 3 parts: (1) fundamental healthcare concepts, (2) interpersonal skills, and (3) business skills.  [CSS login required]

Dye, C. (2017). Leadership in Healthcare: Essential Values and Skills, (3rd Ed.). Health Administration Press.

The goals of this book are to: Raise leaders’ awareness about values and their meaning and applicability to leadership; Posit that values play a major role in leaders’ effective performance; and to Recommend practical strategies for living by those values at work and at home. This book focuses on values-based leadership. It is divided into five parts: (1) Leadership in Health-care sets the stage on which the field and its leaders perform their roles, (2) Personal Values catalogs the key values that influence the leader’s behaviors, priorities, thought processes, and actions; (3) Team Values explores the values that guide a leadership team; (4) Evaluation provides guidance for assessing team values and effectiveness and careers at all stages; and (5) Academic Perspectives provides a research-based response to the book and academic approaches to the question of whether leadership truly matters in the workplace. [CSS login required]

Griffith, J. R., & White, K. R. (2019). The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization, (9th Ed.). Health Administration Press & Association of University Programs in Health Administration.
This book tracks evidence-based practices that lead to high performance based on documented excellence by Baldrige Award winners, Lean users, and peer-reviewed publications.

Healey, B. (2018). Principles of Healthcare Leadership. Health Administration Press.

This book is a comprehensive discussion surrounding the need for skillful leadership in US healthcare facilities. It covers the leadership styles found in organizations throughout the world. It is composed of five parts: (1) Introduction to Leadership in Healthcare, (2) Leadership Skills, (3) Organizational Culture Building, (4) Leading People in Healthcare Delivery, and (5) Leadership Case Studies. [CSS login required]

Marshall, E. S. & Broome, M. E. (2017). Transformational Leadership in Nursing, (2nd Ed.). Springer Publishing Co.

This book is for leaders of the future. It is offered as a resource as you embark on your journey toward transformational leadership. The book specifically references the DNP Essentials. The book is meant to introduce you, as a clinical expert, to important issues in your own aspirations toward becoming a leader. "If your journey toward transformational leadership is not a deeply personal one, then you will not be the leader you must be or the leader for which the future pleads."  [CSS login required]

Donaldson. (2017). Simple_Complexity: A Management Book for the Rest of Us: A Guide to Systems Thinking. Morgan James Publishing.

This book offers guidance on how to find and see an enterprise system--the whole system with many subsystems--in which you work and manage, thereby making you more effective. It has 3 parts: (1) Systems Thinking: The Unifying Discipline; (2) The Enterprise Management System; and (3) Designing Your Enterprise Management System. [CSS login required]

Kaissi, A. (2018). Intangibles: The Unexpected Traits of High-Performing Healthcare Leaders. Health Administration Press.

This book presents evidence-based practices: practices that have been proven to be effective by a large number of people, in a variety of different settings, over time. He interviewed 20 current and retired healthcare leaders, providers, and experts on leadership-related issues and collected data from more than 500 employees, supervisors, middle managers, and executives in nine health systems. The book has 3 sections: (1) Introduction, (2) Leadership Traits, and (3) Applications.  [CSS login required]

Penner, S. J. (2017). Economics and Financial Management for Nurses and Nurse Leaders (3rd Ed.). Springer Publishing Company.

This book is designed to help entry-level and experienced nurses understand the impact of health care economics and finance on their day-to-day clinical work. It has 4 parts: (1) Overview of Economics and Health Care; (2) Budgets and Budgeting; (3) Financial Analysis and Making a Business Case; and (4) Advanced Topics.  [CSS login required]

Wadsworth, Talbert, & Dennison (2017). The Role of the Clinical Executive. In H. Michael Dreher and Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow. DNP Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice. Springer Publishing Co.

This chapter discusses the demand for a different level and type of education beyond the master’s degree for clinical executive leadership; the results of a DNP education; and the potential challenges of making the DNP a requirement for nurse executives. The reflection by Yoder-Wise & Esquibel discusses some things that are missing in this chapter, such as a comparison of the DNP with the PhD degree and how each of those degrees might contribute to the excellence of clinical nurse executives, the position of the ANA and its scope and standards document governing nursing administration, and the huge numbers of nurses in administrative positions who are not even prepared with a baccalaureate degree in nursing.  [CSS login required]

Walston, S. (2017). Organizational Behavior and Theory in Healthcare: Leadership Perspectives and Management Applications. Health Administration Press & Association of University Programs in Health Administration.
Book uses the ACHE Healthcare Executive Competencies Assessment Tool to develop chapter contents. Each of the 20 chapters lists the ACHE competencies covered. 

Weinstock & Glasgow (2017). Executive Coaching to Support Doctoral Role Transitions and Promote Leadership Consciousness.  In H. Michael Dreher and Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow. DNP Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice. Springer Publishing Co. 

This chapter addresses the many challenges inherent in professional work transitions and the myths that surround leadership. It speaks to the need for heightened leadership consciousness during times of change, and describes how executive coaching can support new leaders in making effective transitions. The reflective responses (Reflective Response 1 by Margo A. Karsten and Reflective Response 2 by Diane S. Hupp) are stories of transitions to leadership roles, including the challenges and the need for reflection, developing leadership consciousness.  [CSS login required]

Part III - Business Skills, in Cellucci, L. (2019). Essentials of Healthcare Management: Cases, Concepts, and Skills (2nd Ed.). Health Administration Press.

This book examines health services management in the context that healthcare managers are more effective, in terms of decision-making and performance, if they possess a broad range of management skills as well as a thorough knowledge of how the US healthcare system works. Part III has 6 chapters: Ethics and Law, Healthcare Finance and Budgeting, Human Resource Management, Strategic Planning and Marketing, Assessing Quality, and Health Informatics. [CSS login required]

Donaldson. (2017). Simple_Complexity: A Management Book for the Rest of Us: A Guide to Systems Thinking. Morgan James Publishing.

This book offers guidance on how to find and see an enterprise system--the whole system with many subsystems--in which you work and manage, thereby making you more effective. It has 3 parts: (1) Systems Thinking: The Unifying Discipline; (2) The Enterprise Management System; and (3) Designing Your Enterprise Management System. [CSS login required]

Penner, S. J. (2017). Economics and Financial Management for Nurses and Nurse Leaders (3rd Ed.). Springer Publishing Company.

This book is designed to help entry-level and experienced nurses understand the impact of health care economics and finance on their day-to-day clinical work. It has 4 parts: (1) Overview of Economics and Health Care; (2) Budgets and Budgeting; (3) Financial Analysis and Making a Business Case; and (4) Advanced Topics. [CSS login required]