From Management to Leadership
Chapter One
Leadership
An Elusive Concept
Leadership has to take place every day.
It cannot be the responsibility of the few, a rare event,
or a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
R. A. Heifetz and D. L. Laurie,
"The Work of Leadership"
No issue is as important in health care today as the development
and continual evolution of leaders. "Leadership is the pivotal
force behind successful organizations.... To create vital and viable
organizations, leadership is necessary to help organizations develop
a new vision of what they can be, then mobilize the organization to
change toward the new vision" (Bennis and Nanus, 1985, p. 12). An
organization's success is directly correlated to its leaders' strengths.
The failure of an organization to develop leaders at all levels, relying
instead on a few strong leaders at the top, results in dismal outcomes.
In the foreword of Gifford and Elizabeth Pinchot's book The
Intelligent Organization (1996b, p. x), Warren Bennis notes that "t ... read full excerpt from From Management to Leadership: Practical Strategies for Health Care Leaders, 2nd Edition ebook
