Communication

• Changing Yourself and Your Reputation

• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

• Managing Conflict with Direct Reports

• Managing Conflict with Peers

• Managing Conflict with Your Boss

• Medical Professionalism: Best Practices

• Medical Professionalism Best Practices: Professionalism in the Modern Era

• The No A**hole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One that Isn't

• The Power of a Positive NO

Diversity

• Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflection on Race and Medicine

• Changing the Culture of Academic Medicine

• Searching for Excellence & Diversity: A Guide for the Search Committee Chair

• The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

Ethics / Professionalism

• An Epidemic of Empathy in Healthcare: How to Deliver Compassionate Connected Patient Care That Creates a Competitive Advantage

• Difficult Conversations

• Medical Professionalism: Best Practices 2015

• Medical Professionalism Best Practices: Professionalism in the Modern Era 2017

• Road Trip with Carrie

• The No A**hole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One that Isn't

• When Bad Things Happen to Good People

• When Breath Becomes AIR

Faculty Success

• Academic Promotions for Clinicians

• Advice for New Faculty Members

• Faculty Health in Academic Medicine

• How to Succeed in Academics

• Searching for Excellence & Diversity: A Guide for the Search Committee Chair

• The Successful Medical School Department Chair

General Interest

• Grit

• Road Trip with Carrie

• The Handbook of Academic Medicine: How Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals Work

• When Bad Things Happen to Good People

• When Breath Becomes AIR

Leadership

• Developing Leadership Talent

• Heroic Leadership

• Influential Leadership

• Leading Change

• Leading for a Change

• Leading Top Skills, Attributes, and Behaviors Critical for Success

• Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

• Outstanding! 47 Ways to Make Your Organization Exceptional

• Switch

• The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

• The College Administrator's Survival Guide

• The Department Chair as Academic Leader

• The Successful Medical School Department Chair

• The Trusted Leader: Bringing Out the Best in Your People and Your Company

• Total Leadership

Mentoring

• A Mentor's Companion

• The Mentee's Guide: How to Have a Successful Relationship with a Mentor

• The Missing Mentor

Medical Education

• Contemporary Challenges in Medical Education

• Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency

• iGen

• What the Best College Teachers Do

Research

• Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers

• Follow the Money: Funding Research in a Large Academic Health Center

• The History of Pharmacology and Physiology at Saint Louis University

• The Research Productive Department

• The Vanishing Physician-Scientist? (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

Women's Success

• Changing the Culture of Academic Medicine

• Legends and Legacies: Personal Journeys of Women Physicians & Scientists at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

• New Rules for Women: Revolutionizing the Way Women Work Together

• She Wins. YOU WIN: The Most Important Rule Every Businesswoman Needs to Know

• Success Strategies for Women in Science

• Changing Yourself and Your Reputation
  Author: CCL (Center for Creative Leadership) & Talula Cartwright
  Description: This book offers help in making changes--and in getting people to notice them. Changing is hard work. One part of that work is the change itself. You must decide to change and then make the change happen. That in itself is a big accomplishment. But what if you're doing all that work and making significant changes--and no one notices? It can be very discouraging! But take heart! This book shows you how to move on with the second part of the work, the follow-through: getting people to notice that you are changing.
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• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
  Authors: Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Kerry Patterson, & Al Switzler
  Description: When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation badly and suffer the consequences; or read Crucial Conversations and discover how to communicate best when it matters most. Crucial Conversations gives you the tools you need to step up to life's most difficult and important conversations, say what's on your mind, and achieve the positive resolutions you want. Whether they take place at work or at home, with your neighbors or your spouse, crucial conversations can have a profound impact on your career, your happiness, and your future. With the skills you learn in this book, you'll never have to worry about the outcome of a crucial conversation again.
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• Managing Conflict with Direct Reports
  Authors: CCL (Center for Creative Leadership & Barbara Popejoy
  Description: Conflict is inevitable when people work together, and it’s one of the most difficult challenges facing managers. But it’s a challenge that successful leaders learn to address. Managers who develop an understanding of difference without judgment and are willing to see more than one perspective or solution are in a good position to manage conflict with their direct reports. Conflict between managers and direct reports highlights a power relationship and affects the work itself—the tasks for which managers and direct reports share responsibility. Managers who look to see both sides of conflict can resolve it, but it means assessing the differences between themselves and their direct reports and finding out how those differences affect the conflict.
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• Managing Conflict with Peers
  Author: CCL (Center of Creative Leadership) & Talula Cartwright
  Description: A great many peer conflicts arise from incompatible goals or from different views on how a task should be accomplished. With honest dialogue these kinds of conflicts can usually be resolved. But other peer conflicts are more troublesome because they involve personal values, office politics and power, and emotional reactions. To resolve these more difficult peer conflicts, managers should examine three key issues that can cause such clashes and also influence their outcome. One, they should assess their emotional “hot buttons” that trigger ineffective behaviors and make conflict difficult to manage. Two, they should examine their personal values and how those might conflict with what their peers find important. Finally, they should assess their power in the organization—which can be related to position, influence, expertise, or some other factor—and learn how to use it to manage conflicts.
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• Managing Conflict with Your Boss
  Author: CCL (Center of Creative Leadership), Davida Sharpe, & Ellinor Johnson
  Description: As individuals, we can be creative and ambitious in our personal lives and in our professional lives. But individual efforts can’t always match the energy and productivity of a group. Cultures, societies, clubs, schools, and militaries arose out of our need to band together for mutual support. Organizations were created to deal more effectively with the environment—both the natural world and the world of work. But there is a trade-off when we move from individual contributions to group efforts: the relationships necessary for working together can spawn conflict. In organizations, tensions between individuals need to be defused, or focused in order to find productive solutions to problems. This is especially critical when conflict arises between people at different levels in the organization, such as when you are having a conflict with your boss. These tensions aren’t easy to handle. Conflict can generate discomfort, anger, and ineffective behavior. Feelings such as fear and resentment can rise to the surface. Organizational issues such as unclear lines of authority, power, politics, and ineffective support systems also come into play.
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• Medical Professionalism: Best Practices
  Author: Richard L. Byyny, Maxine Papadakis, & Douglar S. Paauw
  Description: Professionalism in Medicine has been a core value for Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society since the society's founding in 1902. Because medical professionalism is a core value of the society, the board of directors of the (AOA) has discussed how the society can serve as a leader and catalyst to improve medical professionalism. This journal covers areas such as better understanding medical professionalism, professionalism issues, and learning about teaching and supporting research and scholarship related to medical professionalism, identifying methods of evaluating aspects of professionalism, and finding a leadership focus for AOA in medical professionalism.
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• Medical Professionalism Best Practices: Professionalism in the Modern Era
  Author: Richard L. Byyny, Maxine Papadakis , & Douglas S. Paauw
  Description: To continue the development and ongoing scholarship of medical professionalism, A[Omega]A hosts a biennial Professionalism Conference bringing together leaders in the field of medical professionalism. In September 2016, more than 20 medical educators and specialists in medical professionalism came together in Chicago for three days to discuss Medical Professionalism Best Practices: Professionalism in the Modern Era.
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• The No A**hole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One that Isn't
  Author: Robert L. Sutton, Ph.D.
  Description: How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not alone! In this groundbreaking book, Stanford University professor Robert I. Sutton builds on his acclaimed Harvard Business Review article to show you the best ways to deal with assholes...and why they can be so destructive to your company. Practical, compassionate, and in places downright funny, this guide offers:
  Strategies on how to pinpoint and eliminate negative influences for good
  Illuminating case histories from major organization
  A self-diagnostic test and a program to identify and keep your own "inner jerk" from coming out
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• The Power of a Positive NO
  Author: William Ury
  Description: This indispensable book gives you a simple three-step method for saying a Positive No. It will show you how to assert and defend your key interests; how to make your No firm and strong; how to resist the other side’s aggression and manipulation; and how to do all this while still getting to Yes. In the end, the Positive No will help you get not just to any Yes but to the right Yes, the one that truly serves your interests.
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• Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflection on Race and Medicine
  Author: Damon Tweedy
  Description: Black Man in a White Coat examines the complex ways in which both black doctors and patients must navigate the difficult and often contradictory terrain of race and medicine. As Tweedy transforms from student to practicing physician, he discovers how often race influences his encounters with patients. Through their stories, he illustrates the complex social, cultural, and economic factors at the root of many health problems in the black community. These issues take on greater meaning when Tweedy is himself diagnosed with a chronic disease far more common among black people. In this powerful, moving, and deeply empathic book, Tweedy explores the challenges confronting black doctors, and the disproportionate health burdens faced by black patients, ultimately seeking a way forward to better treatment and more compassionate care.
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• Changing the Culture of Academic Medicine
  Author: Linda H. Pololi
  Description: Over the past twenty-five years, steadily increasing numbers of women have graduated as physicians, in sufficient numbers to be well represented in senior and leadership positions in the nation’s academic medical centers. Yet women’s expected advancement has stalled. Women rarely hold decision-making positions, and female department chairs or deans continue to be exceedingly rare. Why is this the case? Pololi’s study, based on extensive interviews, illuminates medical school culture and shows a sharp disconnect between the values of individual faculty members and the values of academic institutions of medicine. Pololi looks closely at women medical faculty’s experiences as outsiders in medicine, opening a window into medical culture. She argues that placing more women and people of color in leadership positions would provide transformative and more effective leadership to improve health care and would help address current inequities in the health care provided to different racial and cultural groups.
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• Searching for Excellence & Diversity: A Guide for the Search Committee Chair
  Author: University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Description: Hiring and retaining an excellent and diverse faculty is a top priority for colleges and universities nationwide. Vast amounts of time and considerable monetary resources are devoted to searching for and hiring new faculty. If the search is successful and results in the hiring of productive faculty who make valuable and lasting contributions to the discipline and the university, the time and money are well spent. If the search is unsuccessful or newly hired faculty members do not remain in their positions, the time, effort, and expenses incurred in conducting repeated searches can become burdensome. This workbook serves as a guide to assist committees in searching for qualified hires, and helps prevent unsuccessful hires from occurring often.
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• The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
  Author: Scott E. Page
  Description: The Difference reveals that progress and innovation may depend less on lone thinkers with enormous IQs than on diverse people working together and capitalizing on their individuality. Page shows how groups that display a range of perspectives outperform groups of like-minded experts. Diversity yields superior outcomes, and Page proves it using his own cutting-edge research. Moving beyond the politics that cloud standard debates about diversity, he explains why difference beats out homogeneity, whether you're talking about citizens in a democracy or scientists in the laboratory. He examines practical ways to apply diversity's logic to a host of problems, and along the way offers fascinating and surprising examples, from the redesign of the Chicago "El" to the truth about where we store our ketchup.
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• An Epidemic of Empathy in Healthcare: How to Deliver Compassionate Connected Patient Care That Creates a Competitive Advantage
  Author: Thomas H. Lee, MD
  Description: In An Epidemic of Empathy in Healthcare, he argues that we must have it both ways—that combining advanced science with empathic care is the only way to build the health systems our society needs and deserves. Organizing providers so that care is compassionate and coordinated is not only the right thing to do for patients, it also forms the core of strategy in healthcare’s competitive new marketplace. It provides business advantages to organizations that strive to reduce human suffering effectively, reliably, and efficiently.
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• Difficult Conversations
  Authors: Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen
  Description: We attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day-whether dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with a spouse, or negotiating with a client. having those tough conversations with less stress and more success. you'll learn how to:
  * Decipher the underlying structure of every difficult
  conversation
  * Start a conversation without defensiveness
  * Listen for the meaning of what is not said
  * Stay balanced in the face of attacks and accusations
  * Move from emotion to productive problem solving
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• Medical Professionalism: Best Practices
  Author: Richard L. Byyny, Maxine Papadakis, & Douglar S. Paauw
  Description: Professionalism in Medicine has been a core value for Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society since the society's founding in 1902. Because medical professionalism is a core value of the society, the board of directors of the (AOA) has discussed how the society can serve as a leader and catalyst to improve medical professionalism. This journal covers areas such as better understanding medical professionalism, professionalism issues, and learning about teaching and supporting research and scholarship related to medical professionalism, identifying methods of evaluating aspects of professionalism, and finding a leadership focus for AOA in medical professionalism.
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• Medical Professionalism Best Practices: Professionalism in the Modern Era
  Author: Richard L. Byyny, Maxine Papadakis , & Douglas S. Paauw
  Description: To continue the development and ongoing scholarship of medical professionalism, A[Omega]A hosts a biennial Professionalism Conference bringing together leaders in the field of medical professionalism. In September 2016, more than 20 medical educators and specialists in medical professionalism came together in Chicago for three days to discuss Medical Professionalism Best Practices: Professionalism in the Modern Era.
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• The No A**hole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One that Isn't
  Author: Robert L. Sutton, Ph.D.
  Description: How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not alone! In this groundbreaking book, Stanford University professor Robert I. Sutton builds on his acclaimed Harvard Business Review article to show you the best ways to deal with assholes...and why they can be so destructive to your company. Practical, compassionate, and in places downright funny, this guide offers:
  Strategies on how to pinpoint and eliminate negative influences for good
  Illuminating case histories from major organization
  A self-diagnostic test and a program to identify and keep your own "inner jerk" from coming out
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• When Bad Things Happen to Good People
  Author: Harold S. Kushner
  Description: When Harold Kushner’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease that meant the boy would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy strikes. In these pages, Kushner shares his wisdom as a rabbi, a parent, a reader, and a human being.
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• When Breath Becomes air
  Author: Paul Kalanithi
  Description: At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
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• Academic Promotions for Clinicians
  Author: Anne Walling, MB, ChB
  Description: The purpose is to provide guidance for clinician-educators and their advisors, and describe dilemmas inherent to academic promotions in this changing healthcare environment. I highly recommend this book for those entrusted with granting academic promotions, for academic leaders concerned with updating promotions criteria, and, especially, for academic clinicians and their advisors trying to navigate a confusing but potentially gratifying process
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• Advice for New Faculty Members
  Author: Robert Boice
  Description: A unique and essential guide to the start of a successful academic career. As its title suggests (nothing in excess), it advocates moderation in ways of working, based on the single-most reliable difference between new faculty who thrive and those who struggle. By following its practical, easy-to-use rules, novice faculty can learn to teach with the highest levels of student approval, involvement, and comprehension, with only modest preparation times and a greater reliance on spontaneity and student participation. Similarly, new faculty can use its rule-based practices to write with ease, increasing productivity, creativity, and publishability through brief, daily sessions of focused and relaxed work. And they can socialize more successfully by learning about often-misunderstood aspects of academic culture, including mentoring.
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• Faculty Health in Academic Medicine
  Authors: Thomas Cole, Thelma Jean Goodrich, Ellen R. Gritz
  Description: In the 21st century, academic medical centers across the United States continue to make scientific breakthroughs, to make improvements in patient care, and to provide the most advanced information and guidance in matters affecting public health. The signs of growth are everywhere―in new research buildings, new partnerships with industry, new forms of molecular medicine, and new sensitivity to the role of the human spirit in healing. This growth is due in large part to the dedication and productivity of our faculty, who are providing more patient care, more research, more teaching, and more community service than ever before.
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• How to Succeed in Academics
  Author: Linda L. McCabe
  Description: McCabe bring decades of expertise and experience to such topics as marketing your ideas through posters, talks, manuscripts, and grant proposals; developing strategies for applying, interviewing, and negotiating for training programs and jobs; establishing professional networks and seeking leadership opportunities; improving your teaching, speaking, and writing skills; and setting goals and creating schedules to achieve them.
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• Searching for Excellence & Diversity: A Guide for the Search Committee Chair
  Author: University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Description: Hiring and retaining an excellent and diverse faculty is a top priority for colleges and universities nationwide. Vast amounts of time and considerable monetary resources are devoted to searching for and hiring new faculty. If the search is successful and results in the hiring of productive faculty who make valuable and lasting contributions to the discipline and the university, the time and money are well spent. If the search is unsuccessful or newly hired faculty members do not remain in their positions, the time, effort, and expenses incurred in conducting repeated searches can become burdensome. This workbook serves as a guide to assist committees in searching for qualified hires, and helps prevent unsuccessful hires from occurring often.
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• The Successful Medical School Department Chair
  Author: AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges)
  Description: Department chairs are the leadership “glue” that binds complex academic medical centers together. They need competencies, skills, and approaches that will harness the intelligence, creativity, and commitment of faculty, students, residents, and peers. Forward-thinking institutions recognize success depends on building relationships based on shared value and purpose. The AAMC Successful Medical School Department Chair Series helps academic medicine professionals achieve and excel in leadership positions. The series was developed in close consultation with department chairs and thought leaders within the academic medicine community and reflects real-world insights.
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• Grit
  Author: Angela Duckworth
  Description: The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of “genius,” Angela Duckworth is now a celebrated researcher and professor. It was her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience that led to her hypothesis about what really drives success: not genius, but a unique combination of passion and long-term perseverance. In Grit, she takes us into the field to visit cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, teachers working in some of the toughest schools, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she’s learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers—from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff to Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll.
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• Road Trip with Carrie
  Author: WM. Lee Little
  Description: "Road Trip with Carrie" is a love story about a healthy 60 something year old who had a sudden aneurysm in the brain while returning from a getaway weekend to watch a college football game. Her story starts in a car 90 minutes from home and takes us through an 87 day stay in the hospital. When she was admitted, doctors thought she had a one in three chance of survival. Yet, here she stands. Take a journey with Carrie as she beats the odds and moves on to living a productive, healthy life. A parable in grit, this is also a story about the wonderful medical professionals that cared for her as she healed.
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• The Handbook of Academic Medicine: How Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals work
  Author: AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges)
  Description: The Handbook of Academic Medicine: How Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals Work explains what medical schools and teaching hospitals are, how they work and interrelate, how they educate medical students and residents, how they engage in patient care and research, and what prominent issues they face. The Handbook is a resource on the fundamentals of academic medicine and is essential reading for medical school and teaching hospital leaders, governing board members, university officials, members of the media, national and state legislators and staff members, Federal agency staff, and anyone who wants to know more about medical schools and teaching hospitals.
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• When Bad Things Happen to Good People
  Author: Harold S. Kushner
  Description: When Harold Kushner’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease that meant the boy would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy strikes. In these pages, Kushner shares his wisdom as a rabbi, a parent, a reader, and a human being.
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• When Breath Becomes air
  Author: Paul Kalanithi
  Description: At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
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• Developing Leadership Talent
  Authors: David Berke, Michael Wakefield, and Michael Kossler
  Description: Based on the popular Developing Leadership Talent program offered by the acclaimed Center for Creative Leadership, this important resource offers a nuts-and-bolts framework for putting in place a leadership development system that will attract and retain the best and brightest talent. Step by step, the authors explain how alignment with strategic goals and organizational purpose and effective developmental experiences are the backbone of a successful leadership program.
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• Heroic Leadership
  Author: Chris Lowney
  Description: Leadership makes great companies, but few of us truly understand how to turn ourselves and others into great leaders. One company—the Jesuits—pioneered a unique formula for molding leaders and in the process built one of history’s most successful companies. In this groundbreaking book, Chris Lowney reveals the leadership principles that have guided the Jesuits for more than 450 years: self-awareness, ingenuity, love, and heroism. Lowney shows how these same principles can make each of us a dynamic leader in the twenty-first century.
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• Influential Leadership
  Author: Michael E. Frisina, Ph.D.
  Description: Leaders make things happen. Influential leaders go a step further by making a positive difference in organizations and in the lives of people who both serve and are served by the organization. Influential leaders perform at a higher level, are more productive, and achieve greater results than other leaders with similar circumstances and resources.
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• Leading Change (Two Copies Available)
  Author: John P. Kotter
  Description: John Kotter’s now-legendary eight-step process for managing change with positive results has become the foundation for leaders and organizations across the globe. By outlining the process every organization must go through to achieve its goals, and by identifying where and how even top performers derail during the change process, Kotter provides a practical resource for leaders and managers charged with making change initiatives work. This bestselling business book serves as both visionary guide and practical toolkit on how to approach the difficult yet crucial work of leading change in any type of organization.
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• Leading for a Change
  Author: Ralph D. Jacobson
  Description: This book is relevant for all leaders within the organization-from the shop floor, to those pushing the envelop with e-commerce to walnut row. The book's "5 Challenges of Organizational Leadership" enables readers to concentrate on specific tasks crucial to creating a unified, visionary and dynamic organization. The author's unique Leader's Map framework lays out the five universal challenges facing today's leaders: reframing the future, developing followership, teaching and learning, building community, and balancing paradox. The book's leadership "roadmap" and diagnostic surveys help readers assess their organization's current and emerging leadership challenges and devise new adaptable and anticipatory strategies.
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• Leading: Top Skills, Attributes, and Behaviors Critical for Success
  Author: AAMC (Association of American Medicine Colleges
  Description: Department chairs are the leadership “glue” that binds complex academic medical centers together. They need the competencies, skills, and approaches that will harness the intelligence, creativity and commitment of faculty, students, residents, and peers. Forward-thinking institutions are recognizing that success depends on building relationships based on shared value and purpose.
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• Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
  Author: Liz Wiseman & Greg McKeown
  Description: A thought-provoking, accessible, and essential exploration of why some leaders (“Diminishers”) drain capability and intelligence from their teams, while others (“Multipliers”) amplify it to produce better results. Including a foreword by Stephen R. Covey, as well the five key disciplines that turn smart leaders into genius makers, Multipliers is a must-read for everyone from first-time managers to world leaders.
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• Outstanding! 47 Ways to Make Your Organization Exceptional
  Author: John G. Miller
  Description: Every day outstanding organizations do things and promote values that ensure they will retain customers, grow revenues, increase market share, and build their reputations. People in these organizations hold values and take actions-- individually and collectively--that are not always easy or obvious but are fundamentally powerful. Informed by his own commitment to the concept of personal accountability and enlivened by compelling true stories from exceptional organizations, in this insightful and accessible book John Miller identifies the principles and behaviors that distinguish such organizations from the pack and provides readers with ways to integrate them into their own work.
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• Switch
  Authors: Chip Heath & Dan Heath
  Description: In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people—employees and managers, parents and nurses—have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results:
  ●The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients.
  ●The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping.
  ●The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service. In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.
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• The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
  Authors: Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, & Kaley Warner Klemp
  Description: Our experience is that unconscious leadership is not sustainable. It won’t work for you, your team or your organization in the long term. Unconscious leadership can deliver short term results, but the costs of living and leading unconsciously are great. Fear drives most leaders to make choices that are at odds with healthy relationships, vitality and balance. This fear leaves a toxic residue that won’t be as easily tolerated in an increasingly complex business environment. Conscious leadership offers the antidote to fear. These pages contain a comprehensive road map to guide you to shift from fear-based to trust-based leadership. Once you learn and start practicing conscious leadership you’ll get results in the form of more energy, clarity, focus and healthier relationships. You’ll do more and more of what you are passionate about, and less of what you do out of obligation. You’ll have more fun, be happier, experience less drama and be more on purpose.
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• The College Administrator's Survival Guide
  Author: C. K. Gunsalus, Professor Emerita
  Description: These days academic leaders must respond to heightened demands for transparency and openness. These demands are intensified by social media, which increases the visibility of university conflicts and can foster widespread misinformation about campus affairs. Meanwhile, institutions have become flatter, with administrators expected to work more closely with faculty, students, and a range of professionals even as support staffs shrink. Between the ever-replenishing inbox, the integration of often-exasperating management systems into every dimension of academic life, and the new demands of remote learning, deans and department heads are juggling more balls than ever before. Tightening budgets have already forced administrators into more difficult choices and, in the wake of COVID-19, there will be no relief from financial constraints.
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• The Department Chair as Academic Leader (Three Copies Available)
  Authors: Irene W. D. Hecht, Mary Lou Higgerson, Walter H. Gmelch, & Allan Tucker
  Description: Every individual who currently holds the position of Chair or who desires to attain such a position should read, study, and reflect on how his or her performance measures up to the practices described by the authors. Each of its 14 characters is well-referenced, and in most cases, references are critically annotated to guide the reader toward a deeper understanding of such topics as faculty cultures and values, minorities on campus, communication skills, faculty and staff evaluation, team building, budgeting, legal issues, and fundraising. Practical yet seeking to hold academics and administrators to higher standards, The Department Chair as Academic Leader should accompany the appointment letter of every new department head. This volume provides thoughtful and helpful perspectives and suggestions regarding how to lead our new era. It acknowledges the new conditions in which higher education is moving and is a valuable resource for both old and new chairs.
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• The Successful Medical School Department Chair
  Author: AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges)
  Description: Department chairs are the leadership “glue” that binds complex academic medical centers together. They need competencies, skills, and approaches that will harness the intelligence, creativity, and commitment of faculty, students, residents, and peers. Forward-thinking institutions recognize success depends on building relationships based on shared value and purpose. The AAMC Successful Medical School Department Chair Series helps academic medicine professionals achieve and excel in leadership positions. The series was developed in close consultation with department chairs and thought leaders within the academic medicine community and reflects real-world insights.
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• The Trusted Leader: Bringing Out the Best in Your People and Your Company
  Authors: Robert Galford & Anne Drapeau
  Description: Based on highly specific research and experience that covers a wide spectrum of managers and organizations, The Trusted Leader identifies the three critical types of trust that leaders need to master: strategic trust, organizational trust, and personal trust. It introduces a practical and effective formula for building organizational confidence, and provides a unique analysis of the obstacles to trust and the sources of resistance to the building of trust inside organizations. Through a series of interactive exercises, executives will learn how to determine where trust is missing and how it can be supplemented in people, departments, and even whole companies. Perhaps most timely are the book's series of diagnostic tools and skills that help executives rebuild trust that has been broken or betrayed.
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• Total Leadership
  Author: Stewart D. Friedman
  Description: Total Leadership is a game-changing blueprint for how to perform well as a leader not by trading off one domain for another, but by finding mutual value among all four. Stew Friedman shows you how to achieve these "four-way wins" as a leader who can:

  • Be real: Act with authenticity by clarifying what's important

  • Be whole: Act with integrity by respecting the whole person

  • Be innovative: Act with creativity by experimenting to find new solutions

With engaging examples and clear instruction, Friedman provides more than thirty hands-on tools for using these proven principles to produce
stronger business results, find clearer purpose in what you do, feel more connected to the people who matter most, and generate sustainable
change.
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• Contemporary Challenges in Medical Education
  Authors: Zareen Zaidi, Eric I. Rosenberg, & Rebecca J. Beyth
  Description: In this volume, experienced clinician-educators offer real-world examples of various pedagogical and clinical scenarios, providing evidence- and theory-based approaches to managing three areas of growth: professional development, professionalism, and teaching. Acknowledging human fallibility, the editors begin with a framework that institutions, educators, and learners can use to promote well-being, outlining strategies for mindfulness training, relaxation techniques, appreciative inquiry, narrative medicine, and positive psychology. They then apply these strategies to additional developmental topics like failure, burnout, and improving resilience, social identity formation, and graceful self-promotion.
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• Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency
  Authors: Dolly Cooke, David M. Irby, Bridget C. O'Brien, & Lee S. Schulman
  Description: Emerging from an extensive study of physician education by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Educating Physicians calls for a major overhaul of the present approach to preparing doctors for their careers. The text addresses major issues for the future of the field and takes a comprehensive look at the most pressing concerns in physician education today. The key findings of the study recommend four goals for medical education: standardization of learning outcomes and individualization of the learning process; integration of formal knowledge and clinical experience; development of habits of inquiry and innovation; and focus on professional identity formation.
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• iGen
  Author: Jean M. Twenge
  Description: With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s up to the mid-2000s, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person—perhaps contributing to their unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality.
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• What the Best College Teachers Do
  Author: Ken Bain
  Description: What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators. The short answer is--it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the special way teachers comprehend the subject and value human learning. Whether historians or physicists, in El Paso or St. Paul, the best teachers know their subjects inside and out--but they also know how to engage and challenge students and to provoke impassioned responses. Most of all, they believe two things fervently: that teaching matters and that students can learn.
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• A Mentor's Companion
  Authors: Larry Ambrose
  Description: A Mentor's Companion is a book written for the active or prospective mentor. Its goal is to be a focused, practical guide into the texture of the mentoring interaction between mentor and protege. Combining a unique recipe of live dialogues between a mentor and her protege, with guidelines that glean the key learning from the dialogues, the book teaches the "moves" the mentor should consider in maximizing the learning possibilities for the protege. Each dialogue and summary is followed by a third course - menus of questions and statements from which the mentor can sample when preparing a mentoring conversation. . As a part of their mission, mentors give advice, but this book is not a "how to give advice" book. The concentration, instead, is on using oneself as a catalyst with the mentee (who is also referred to as "protege" or "partner"). The mission of this book is to distinguish and dramatize the skills of the mentor-those probes, those challenges, those inquiries and provocative questions that will inspire thought, stimulate reflection, tap discovery, and generate a new intelligence in the protege.
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• The Mentee's Guide: How to Have a Successful Relationship with a Mentor (Two Copies Available)
  Author: Linda Philips-Jones
  Description: A book designed to help you have a successful partnership with your mentors. It should save you time, provide ideas to build on in planning your mentoring partnerships, and prevent some disappointments and serious errors. You may use the guide in a formal mentoring program. Or you could apply what you learn to various relationships you set up on your own.
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• The Missing Mentor
  Author: Mary E. Stutts
  Description: The Missing Mentor: Women advising Women on Power, Progress and Priorities has been dubbed a surrogate mentor capturing many of the thoughts, secrets, and experiences of powerful women across various industries on career, education, marriage, kids and setting overall direction in life. It will serve as a valuable tool in womens arsenal of personal and career preparation and provide real life anecdotes and professional advice to help them progress and prioritize at all stages of their career.
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• Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers
  Author: Mimi Zeiger, M.A.
  Description: Now revised and updated, this straightforward guide to biomedical writing helps authors understand both what a well-written scientific research paper is and how to create such a work. Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers, Second Edition, provides writers with specific, clear guidelines on word choice, sentence structure, and paragraph structure. In addition, it explains how to construct each section of a research paper, so that, ultimately, the paper as a whole tells a clear story and sends a clear message.
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• Follow the Money: Funding Research in a Large Academic Health Center
  Author: Henry R. Bourne
  Description: Threatened by sharp cuts in state government support and stagnant federal research funding, Us public research universities are becoming fragile ecosystems. By charting flows of research dollars through a leading public research university the University of California, San Francisco (UCSFf) this book illuminates how such schools work to cope with these funding threats and how the challenges and coping strategies affect organization and direction of research. Academic leaders, faculty, administrators, and students will learn how a complex academic health center manages its revenues, expenses, and diverse academic cultures. For the first time, they can begin to understand arcane mysteries of indirect cost recovery, sponsored funds, capital investment, endowments, debt, and researchers' salaries.
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• The History of Pharmacology and Physiology at Saint Louis University
  Author: Thomas C. Westfall, Ph.D.
  Description: The history of pharmacology and physiology at SLU is divided into two phases, much like that of the medical school itself. The book describes the formation of the early school of medicine, the development of the departments of pharmacology and physiology and the separation of the school from Saint Louis University due to the hostility of the anti-immigrant, Anti-Catholic activities of the “Know-Nothing” movement of the time.
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• The Research Productive Department
  Authors: Carole J. Bland, Anne Marie Weber-Main, Sharon Marie Lund, & Deborah A. Finstad
  Description: In The Research-Productive Department, the authors recognize the importance of this task, and share tested strategies for facilitating quality faculty research and promoting an institution’s overall vitality. Many such books written for department chairs and deans have chosen to address the full range of leadership and management tasks that typically occupy this readership. However, few have narrowed their scope—as this book does—to the important leadership tasks that influence the overall success of academic departments in one critical area: research. This book features the experiences of nearly 40 leaders from well-respected research institutions from across the country. It offers specific, useful recommendations for academic leaders seeking to promote high levels of research productivity, including insight on: recruitment practices, mentoring programs, reward systems, culture-building activities, and the distribution of fiscal as well as human resources.
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• The Vanishing Physician-Scientist? (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)
  Author: Andrew L. Schafer
  Description: Throughout history, physicians have played a vital role in medical discovery. These physician-scientists devote the majority of their professional effort to seeking new knowledge about health and disease through research and represent the entire continuum of biomedical investigation. They bring a unique perspective to their work and often base their scientific questions on the experience of caring for patients. Physician-scientists also effectively communicate between researchers in the "pure sciences" and practicing health care providers. Yet there has been growing concern in recent decades that, due to complex changes, physician-scientists are vanishing from the scene.
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• Changing the Culture of Academic Medicine
  Author: Linda H. Pololi
  Description: Over the past twenty-five years, steadily increasing numbers of women have graduated as physicians, in sufficient numbers to be well represented in senior and leadership positions in the nation’s academic medical centers. Yet women’s expected advancement has stalled. Women rarely hold decision-making positions, and female department chairs or deans continue to be exceedingly rare. Why is this the case? Pololi’s study, based on extensive interviews, illuminates medical school culture and shows a sharp disconnect between the values of individual faculty members and the values of academic institutions of medicine. Pololi looks closely at women medical faculty’s experiences as outsiders in medicine, opening a window into medical culture. She argues that placing more women and people of color in leadership positions would provide transformative and more effective leadership to improve health care and would help address current inequities in the health care provided to different racial and cultural groups.
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• Legends and Legacies: Personal Journeys of Women Physicians & Scientists at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
  Author: Elizabeth L. Travis, Ph.D.
  Description: Legends and Legacies: Personal journeys of women physicians and scientists at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center features the inspirational stories of 26 accomplished women physicians and women scientists on the faculty of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The women profiled in these autobiographical essays represent diverse ages, background and cultures and various professional roles, from clinicians and physician scientists to basic scientists and veterinarians. Legends and Legacies is the cumulative story of women who overcame hardships, biases, and their own self-doubts to pursue their passion for research and helping others. These stories of passion, perseverance and success serve as an inspiration to young women considering a career in science or medicine as well as a road map for working women in terms of balancing work and family. All of the women physicians and women scientists in this book strive for a better quality of work life by balancing work and family.
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• New Rules for Women: Revolutionizing the Way Women Work Together
  Author: Anne Litwin
  Description: Dr. Anne Litwin exposes key sources of confusion and misunderstanding between women colleagues and offers powerful tools for preventing and resolving conflict that result in better relationships, as well as increased productivity and retention.
  
  Readers will learn how to
  - Leverage women's strengths such as team- and consensus-building
  - Overcome conflicts due to gender socialization and organizational culture
  - Recognize and manage role boundaries and gender expectations
  - Learn what patterns exist in working relationships among women and how women's expectations can create misunderstandings
  
  When women can better understand themselves and their female colleagues, work relationships become stronger and productivity and job satisfaction increase.
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• She Wins. YOU WIN: The Most Important Rule Every Businesswoman Needs to Know
  Author: Gail Evans
  Description: Whether you're a top executive or an entry-level assistant, She Wins, You Win will give you the tactics and strategies (and a few controversial ideas along the way) you need to attain your career goals:
  * How supporting each other paves the way for success
  * The importance of being a team player-and how to set up your own winning team
  * When it's okay to break the rules
  * How to tap into the resources already at your disposal
  * Discovering your rainmaking skills
  * Sharing information
  * Why women should forget networking and start "webbing"
  * Women to watch out for-from "Queen Beas" to "Seniority Sues"
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• Success Strategies for Women in Science
  Author: Peggy A. Pritchard
  Description: Success Strategies for Women in Science: A Portable Mentor focuses on a wealth of knowledge and years of experience of successful female scientists from industry, government, research institutes, and academe. This book, through practical advice and real-life stories, presents what knowledge and skills are needed to make the transition from trainee to scientist that, if practiced, will help beginners become successful. This book, in particular, describes the essential skills required of every researcher, such as networking, communicating, coping with the demands of a research career, time management, and the most difficult of skills, saying ""no"" to excessive demands on time. This text also explores the issues relating to career development and the importance of the examination of alternate career paths.
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