Main description:

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.

Contents:

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