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Healthcare is a dynamic and fast moving business, where never before has leadership been so important to effectively transform healthcare systems. Healthcare costs continue to be driven up with increased demand, an aging population with complex and multiple conditions and advances in technology. Disruptive innovation affects many aspects of healthcare, whether it’s new technology such as the robot in surgery, the electronic health record, or the PACS systems, not to mention external influences such as payment systems (government). This results in a changing landscape of priorities, from one based mostly on a production system, to the current concept of one based on value (Value (V) = quality (Q)/cost ($)). Medical school does not prepare its doctors to become leaders. However many individual’s demonstrate leadership against these odds. For example, Toby Cosgrove M.D. [1] the world renowned cardiac surgeon turned CEO of the multi-billion dollar enterprise, the Cleveland Clinic, in his preface to his book The Cleveland Clinic Way, admits “I wasn’t born to be a CEO.” He reflects that because he grew up as an undiagnosed dyslexic that perhaps that was a blessing in disguise, as he never “fell prey to the herd mentality.”
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Koyle, M.A. (2017). Effective Medical Leaders Achieving Transformational Change. In: Godbole, P., Burke, D., Aylott, J. (eds) Why Hospitals Fail. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56224-7_4
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